Project Administrator

Project Administrator

**Country**:United Kingdom**Position Location**:Croydon, UK**Contract Type**:Temporary**Work Pattern**:Full Time**Sector**:Transport**Discipline**:Administration**Job Ref**:1763**Recruiter Contact**:Matthew Rayburn**Mott MacDonald**
- We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
- Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.- A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.- We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.- Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.**About the business unit**
We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.**Overview of role**Your key responsibilities will involve**:

- Creating and distributing progress reports
- Arranging meetings, preparing agendas and minutes as instructed by the Project Team
- Arranging Project workshops, training and wellbeing sessions
- Distributing internal project comms from dedicated project communication inbox
- Compiling, updating, and formatting reports and other documentation using typically Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and occasionally other software (for which training is available)
- General project team support for aspects of facilities, hardware and stationery
- Dealing with ad hoc requests from senior management and the wider Project Team
- As an experienced Administrator, you have strong skills using Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Adobe and ideally are familiar using databases. You are comfortable prioritising workload and have the ability to work under pressure while being effective in your time management. Working as part of a team is familiar to you and you’re able to establish professional working relationships with both colleagues and clients.- Additionally, you can demonstrate a flexible approach to work and have strong organisational skills. This role is very focused on organisation and communication, but you’ll also need to have great people skills and a proactive approach.**You will also be able to demonstrate the following**:

- Excellent report writing skills; ideally with a minimum A-level English
- Good verbal and written communication and presentation skills
- The ability to work collaboratively, ideally with clients and supply chain
- Self-motivation and enthusiastic
- Although not essential, a Degree in Social Sciences, Humanities, STEM or Arts would be beneficial.

**Equality, diversity, and inclusion**
- We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.**Accessibility**Agile working**
- Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.**We offer some fantastic benefits including**:
**Health and wellbeing**
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

**Financial wellbeing**
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
- As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

**Lifestyle**
- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell l