Project Coordinator

**In Team Digital, we’re planning for a future where the technology solutions we co-create and design enable us to achieve our goal to protect our greatest natural resource and allow our customers, communities and the environment to thrive.**

As a team, our vision is to create an everyday digital experience for the people we serve - our customers - by putting them at the heart of everything we do. As part of our award-winning team you’ll help the business become an intelligent, connected organisation in order to deliver our digital transformation and turnaround.

As a Project Coordinator, you will support the Digital Project and Programme Managers in ensuring that all project management artefacts are maintained and updated to the frequency and level of quality expected. These artefacts include project plans, status reports and risk/issue/dependency logs.

You may need to support the wider Digital Product Management leadership team with one of more of the following: resource forecasting and time management, financial reporting, employee joiner and leaver processes, supplier procurement processes and project quality assurance reviews.

As Project Coordinator, you will be responsible for coordination (meeting arrangement and minute taking) of cross team governance meetings, such as programme Steering Boards or Architectural decision making.

**What you’ll be doing as a Project Coordinator**:

- Ensure all project plans, status reports and RAID logs are updated on time and to the expected quality, and to escalate any variance to this.
- Ensure all document repositories for all project deliverables are maintained correctly and escalate any variance to this.
- Support the Senior Programme Manager in the maintenance of an overarching roadmap that spans up to 10 years of planned project and product delivery activities.
- Ensure outcomes and benefits against the overarching roadmap are maintained and any deviation is managed via a formal change process.
- Support the Senior Programme Manager in the creation of monthly performance reports that encompass all projects and programmes, with a specific focus on milestones, financial reports, risks/issues and resource planning.

Base Location: Clearwater Court, Reading - Hybrid

Working Pattern or hours - Full Time (36 hours per week)

**What you should bring to the role**

We want to bring together a team of brilliant tech minds with game changing ideas. We’re looking for people who will help us re-imagine the way we work and the way we get things done:

- A truly digital mindset. Open to collaboration. Open to risk. Open to new ways of doing things.
- Obsessed with data. Obsessed with excellence.
- People who think and behave differently to the way we do. People who don’t want to just be another cog in the machine.

**You will also bring with you**:

- Experience within a Digital / IT project management environment****:

- Experience within a Project Management Office or equivalent administrative role
- Experience of Agile and/or Product Management delivery methodologies

**What’s in it for you?**
- Competitive salary up to £35,000 per annum depending on your experience
- Annual Leave - 24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with the length of service (Plus bank holidays)
- Contributory pension - Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution
- Personal Medical Assessments
- Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing

**Who are we?**

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.

Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

**Working at Thames Wate**r**

At Thames Water we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, background, and differences that each individual brings.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

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