Project Officer

**Corporate Project Officer - 12 month FTC, Salary £37,336, Hybrid - on site in Hessle 3 days a week**

**Can you -** Service lead on project management. Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and implementation plans, including risk mitigation and project evaluation. Manage the day-to-day activities to ensure projects are completed in scope, on time and within the allocated budget and resource. Then this role could be for you.

**Do you have**
- Robust understanding of project management concepts, frameworks and methodologies.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong attention to details and technicalities.
- Excellent organisational and technical abilities.
- Excellent interpersonal and multi-tasking skills.
- Relevant training and certifications as a Project Officer.
- They must be able to work as individual contributors as well as team players.
- Strong influencing, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good level of change management understanding to ensure project management maturity and continuous improvement.
- Understanding of risk management principles and productivity and efficiency requirements.
- Excellent written and interpersonal skills with the ability to provide guidance and advice, both verbally and in writing, to managers, staff and internal and external contacts.
- Risk and opportunity management.
- Quality assurance and controls
- High levels of networking skills to identify, develop and maintain appropriate networking opportunities.
- Ability to use Microsoft suite of ICT packages to a high level of proficiency.
- Ability to meet strict deadlines and prioritise work accordingly to ensure changing deadlines are met.
- Ability to work effectively as an individual with autonomy and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to produce clear and concise reports and briefing notes for submission to senior management, stakeholders and external organisations.

**What you’ll do -**
- Plan and oversee project development across the Service, ensuring project leads and sections carry out the project work efficiently and productively.
- Develop and maintain a project management framework and governance structure for the Service’s project management operations to function under.
- Plan specific and/or complex workstreams within a project, taking into account task length, sequencing and dependencies, in order to produce realistic project plans and Gantt charts.
- Support a range of workstreams within the programme or project and identify key milestones, allowing workstreams to be monitored.
- Mitigate project management issues and challenges. Where slippage occurs, make proposals to rectify the issue and adjust the plan as required.
- Set up meetings, schedule tasks and manage resources as required to plan, develop and implement the projects.
- Monitor and report on projects progress, budget and resources to Strategic and Corporate management.
- Quality assure projects to ensure they meet requisite standards, adhere to budgets, and meet deadlines. Set measurable outcomes and metrics
- Following project closure, evaluate conclusion against project scope, outcomes and metrics.
- Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Update and maintain project records and documentation, including project creation, development, and execution as well as the project’s scope, budget, justification and outcome measures.
- Ensures robust and comprehensive administration processes are in place to facilitate efficient management of the programme/project and oversee their operation.

SmartSourcing are a Disability Confident Employer and we promote, celebrate and value diversity, we are committed to promoting equality and inclusion for all.

**Job Type**: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: £37,336.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Do you have experience of working in the public sector?

**Experience**:

- planning including project scope: 3 years (required)
- Contract management: 3 years (required)

**Location**:

- Kingston upon Hull (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: CPO/TV