Project Support Officer

-Contract Type
Fixed Term Contract / SecondmentContract length
12 monthsWorking Pattern
Full timeWorking Hours
35 hours per weekSalary
£33,561.12Location Options
BirminghamFunction Type
Corporate Functions (HR, Finance, Project Management, IT, Risk and Audit)Are you passionate about project management and helping deliver organisational change? Do you have experience of working in a project delivery environment? We are recruiting for a Project Support Officer for 12 months fixed term contract to join our Change Management team.

**The role**

In the role of Project Support Officer, using your experience and understanding of project management methodology, you will provide highly skilled administration, co-ordination, and support functions to assist programme and project managers in the efficient and successful delivery of programmes and projects throughout the project lifecycle. You will be supporting projects that help deliver the organisation’s strategy.

You will establish, maintain, and continually improves effective project controls using industry standard best practice, methodologies, and processes.

Maintaining good oversight of the projects in your portfolio you will answer queries and assist with the matrix management of the project. You will be supported by Project Managers but will be expected to handle matters independently when required.

You will ensure the accuracy of data captured to facilitate the timely and consistent flow of information, effective communication, and proactive risk mitigation.

**What’s in it for you**
- Work in a collaborative and supportive work environment
- Build on your experience in project management
- Gain exposure to wide areas of the SRA on a variety of projects

**What we are looking for**
- Experience of working in a project delivery environment
- Proven experience of the development and implementation of processes and documentation
- Highly developed planning, organisation, and co-ordination skills
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
- Team player who can use initiative and work well under pressure
- Able to liaise and manage internal and external suppliers and other third-party service providers in a confident manner.

**Additional Information**

There is a full role profile attached to the bottom of this advert on our website.

This is a full-time hybrid role and will be based in our Birmingham office 1 to 2 days a week, and from home the rest of the week.

**To apply**
The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards.We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.**Vacancy closing date: 17/03/2025, 12:00**

**The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.**

**Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.**

**Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.