Project Support Officer

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

- 277495**Salary**:

- £26,018**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- VOA - Practitioners - Information, Data and Analysis (ID&A)**Type of role**:

- Information Technology**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Bristol, Durham, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, PlymouthAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) are the public sector’s property valuation experts and advisers who value property for tax purposes.

These taxes fund vital public services like schools, hospitals and welfare meaning that you would have a real opportunity to make a difference to peoples’ lives.

We’re looking for talented people who are eager to contribute to vital public services and assist us to deliver our current data projects and programmes.

Your skills and experience will enable us to provide an efficient, effective service right at the heart of the public interest.

Here in the Information, Data and Analysis (ID&A) team, you’ll have the freedom to manage your own diary and will be empowered to deliver under your own autonomy. We trust our people and look forward to welcoming your skills into our community.

**Job description**:
We have an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to work as part of Information, Data and Analysis (ID&A) within the Data Strategy Team.

As Project Support Officer you will provide an enabling role for the delivery of the complex data projects and programmes, we currently have underway. You will be responsible for providing a coordination and support function for Data Strategy delivery and for the other teams in the ID&A Directorate.

**Person specification**:
In the role of Project Support Officer, you will:

- Provide project support for the delivery of the Data Literacy programme by helping to develop the offering provided to colleagues and undertake the administration of the Data Skills section on the Agency Learning hub.
- Provide administrative support to the ID&A Directorate Senior Leadership Team (SLT) ensuring that all actions and progress updates are recorded. You may also be asked to record audits and checks to support the Project Based Working function.
- Liaise regularly with key stakeholders to gather progress updates on the Data Strategy and other ID&A projects.
- Use updates to contribute to accurate and regular reporting and presentations to internal stakeholders. These reports will support ID&A SLT in their decision-making around resource, budget, and activities.
- Complete the procurement requests for ID&A and the wider Strategy & Transformation Group.
- Organise meetings, set agendas and take minutes for the ID&A SLT and Data Strategy meetings and for other projects as required.

**Essential Requirements**

We are looking for someone who has:

- A good understanding of how to provide efficient project support. A project management qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience in this area is essential.
- Strong organisational skills and a proven ability to deliver to agreed timescales and deadlines.
- Proven ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing priorities whilst maintaining standards.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build productive and collaborative working relationships across the Directorate and Agency.
- MS Excel, Word, and Power Point, Teams, and SharePoint skills.

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

- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions

**Benefits**:
The VOA operates a Flexible Working policy, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments.

The VOA also operates Hybrid Working - your role will be a combination of office and home working.

We offer a generous leave allowance that starts at 25 days and goes up to 30 days after 5 years’ service.
- _ Pay_ - In the last few years, we have increased both the minimum and maximum pay points for everyone in the VOA.
- _ Pension_ - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 26% of their salary. Please click on this link for further information Civil Service Pension
- _ Family friendly policies_ - Our maternity, adoption or shared parental leave encompasses 26 weeks with full pay followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid at your discretion. We also offer paternity leave of 4 weeks at full pay.
- _ Personal support _- We offer extensive special leave to help balance your life and work commitments, a variety of non-financial rewards (including a Cycle to Work scheme of up to £4000) and we work with professional providers to provide occupational health and full mental and physical wellbeing services.
- _ Coaching and development - _We are committed to continu