Project Support Officer

7 months ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Sopra Steria Full time

Are you an inquisitive and proactive person? If you enjoy working in a fast pace environment with the excitement of changing demands this could be a fantastic role for you

SSCL are looking for a Project Support Officer to join our Projects team who support on a number of project for our Government clients. As a Project Officer you will support Project Leads with a variety of tasks to help progress major projects forward as well as taking ownership for some smaller projects.

As our teams are based in a few of our offices you can be based in either Newport, York or Newcastle with an expectation to be in the office minimum of once per month, occasionally more for client and team meetings.

**What you'll be doing**:

- To manage necessary resources and dependencies, including client and delivery partner inputs.
- To develop a good overall understanding of the client’s process (sub-processes)
- To provide inputs to project planning and monitor progress to plan
- To follow reliably established method and toolsets required to ensure consistent repeatable delivery. This includes, but is not limited to, project and programme tools and methods.
- To liaise closely with client team members to ensure that progress “on the ground” is clear and reliable.
- To utilise team resources effectively, demonstrating ability to manage through others across geographies.
- To provide input from a delivery perspective according to the nature of the project - covering pre-sales, bid, due-diligence, transition, CIP and other activities that would have an impact on delivery.
- To ensure that effective communication is in place with line management, client parties, delivery partners and team members.
- To provide day to day detail management of Sopra Steria Client and partner resources to achieve delivery of agreed output and contribute and support effort required to stabilise and hand-over component stream to agreed operational delivery structure (BAU)

**What you’ll bring**:

- Good spreadsheet and Word skills
- Very good interpersonal skills
- Inquisitive and proactive
- Don’t need to have constant direction
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment - change in demand
- Working to deadlines
- Ability to interact with different personalities

**It would be great if you had**:

- Skills with analytics
- HR & Payroll experience
- Project qualifications - Agile/ Prince 2

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you

**Employment Type**:Full-time, Permanent

**Location**:Newport, York, Newcastle****:
**Security Clearance Level**:SC

**Internal Recruiter**: Amelia***

**Salary**: £26,250 plus 3% flex fund

**Benefits: - **25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

**Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?**

SSCL is the market leader in critical business support services for the UK public sector. Operating at size and scale since 2013, SSCL has delivered over £750 million of savings - providing more funds for front line public services. We transform services using digital solutions and innovative technology, developing platforms that enable flexibility to meet the changing needs of our Government, Defence and Police clients.

We employ around 3,000 people who sit at the heart of our business strategy. Their passion and connection to our values and our purpose is what sets us apart and puts SSCL in the Top 20 of GPTW large workplaces. ‘Living SSCL’ means we deliver social value within our services and work with our clients and community partners to support programmes such as education and employability initiatives across the UK.



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