Project Support

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 229999**Salary**:

- £34,173 - £39,777- National £34,173 to £34,971 - Inner London £39,150 to £39,777**Grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DWP - People and Capability - Synergy Programme**Type of role**:

- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of posts**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Blackpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, SheffieldAbout the job

**Summary**:

- Do you want to be part of an energetic, innovative team and bring your skills to one of the biggest changes to the administration of the Civil Service in decades?
- We’re looking for people who are flexible, intuitive and are comfortable taking high levels of volume, speed and complexity in their stride.
- A number of exciting new roles have come up in the newly formed Synergy Programme, a cross-departmental group formed in response to Government Business Service’s request for individual departments to group together in ‘clusters’ to drive efficiencies, increase buying power and improve the quality of shared service to our end users - our people.
- The Synergy Programme is the largest of five departmental clusters, comprising the Ministry of Justice, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Home Office. The Department of Work and Pensions hosts the Synergy Programme. Your work will impact the procurement arrangements for the next 15 years, impacting over 50% of all Civil Servants - that’s 230,000 people across the four departments and arm’s length bodies.
- Success of the Programme is crucial as Civil Servants rely on shared services to provide business critical tools in human resources, finance, payroll and procurement. It affects everything we do, from joining a department as a new starter, the way we claim for expenses, how we buy goods and services such as our laptops and canteen provisions, how we make a claim for our expenses, to the way we receive our pensions when we retire.-
**Job description**:

- Monitoring and reporting - Manage project controls, reporting to the Project Manager/Head of PMO about the project status. Develop project performance reports.
- Admin - Ensure organisational tasks are carried out efficiently. Support with secretariat duties including minute taking and project board support. Manage compliance of the project with Departmental Security, Health & Safety, Equality & Diversity, Business Continuity and Business Planning.
- Resources - Manage workforce planning and support for the recruitment process, providing information for effective decision making. Procurement of supplies and services related to project support within Delegated Financial Authority limits.
- Stakeholders - Manage and engage with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. Drafting of correspondence.
- Financial control - Manage project spend and contribute to the compilation of budgets. Contribute to the project business case.
- Risks and Issues - Lead potential risk areas, working with risk manager and escalating as appropriate.
- Planning and scheduling - Ensure systems are in place to enable effective planning and scheduling.

**Responsibilities**:
**PERSONAL SPECIFICATION**

**Essential Criteria**:

- Experience of successfully supporting projects or programmes to deliver results (Lead criteria).
- Stakeholder Engagement - experience of establishing and developing productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, bringing people together to benefit the project / programme.
- Risk and Issues Management - Have knowledge and experience of Governance procedures.
- Experience of working in a complex challenging landscape.
- MS Office 365, SharePoint and MS Teams Skills (intermediate level).

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role.
- An environment with flexible working options.
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%.

Things you need to know

**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.Applications should be made via CS Jobs.

Please align your CV and Personal Statement to the essential Criteria of the Personal Specification.
- Experience of successfully supporting projects or programmes to deliver results.

At interview, we will select based on both strengths and behaviours. You can see full list of behaviours here.

Sift and interview dates to be confir