Project Control Officer

**Flexible working**

**About us**
GCHQ is an intelligence, cyber, and security agency with a mission to keep the UK safe. We use cutting-edge technology, ingenuity, and partnerships to identify, analyse, and disrupt threats. Working with our intelligence partners MI5 and MI6, we protect the UK from terrorism, cyber-attacks, and espionage. At GCHQ, you’ll do varied and fascinating work in a supportive and inclusive environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork.

**The role**
As a Project Control Officer, you’ll be part of our award-winning Programme Management Office, playing a key role in financial planning and risk management. While the role currently spans risk and planning, its focus is expected to shift increasingly towards finance. You’ll work with financial data, forecasting, and planning activities contributing to a wider range of tasks-preparing data for meetings, maintaining accurate records to supporting financial risk workshops and developing expertise in key project control techniques.

The role centres on finance, risk, and planning, bringing structure to the delivery of transformational projects. You’ll oversee areas such as budgeting, resource management, and project scheduling. By collaborating closely with project managers, you’ll help identify risks and trends, ensuring teams have the financial resources needed to mitigate potential issues. Your responsibilities also include managing monthly financial governance, analysing data, and providing insights into project performance. Through this, you’ll help enhance process effectiveness and uncover opportunities for improvement.

Collaboration is at the heart of this role. Whether working with project managers, stakeholders or customers, you’ll be part of a culture that values teamwork, trust and clear communication. From interpreting financial figures to implementing controls, you’ll be the reliable source of support. As you grow in the role, you’ll have genuine opportunities to advance your career-whether within the Service Management Team, Project Management Team, or in other areas across our wider community.

**About you**

You’ll approach numerical tasks with adaptability, contributing to a range of projects led by different managers. Proficiency in MS Office and a solid grasp of budgets and financial reports are essential. As the role involves working closely with colleagues, customers, stakeholders, and visitors, you’ll be confident in collaborating, clearly communicating tasks, risks, and financial information, and offering support wherever it’s needed.

**Training and development**
When you join us, you’ll receive a comprehensive induction into GCHQ, followed by a team-specific induction into Project Control. This includes three days of structured onboarding and plenty of on-the-job training to help you settle in smoothly.

We’re committed to developing our staff and understand that everyone requires different levels of support and training. Our exceptional, friendly community of colleagues brings a diverse range of skills, perspectives and experiences, and they’ll be on hand to share their expertise with you.

Our supportive environment ensures you receive the guidance and resources necessary to thrive. Whether you’re looking to deepen your expertise in a specific area or explore new specialities, we’ll provide the tools and opportunities to help you succeed.

**Rewards and benefits**
We provide a base salary of £33,750, plus a Concessionary Payment of £2,658.
- 25 days of annual leave, automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus 10.5 days of public and privilege holidays
- opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
- an interest-free season ticket loan
- an excellent pension scheme
- a cycle to work scheme
- on-site facilities such as a gym, restaurant, and coffee bars (available at some locations)
- paid parental and adoption leave.

**Equal opportunities**
At GCHQ, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word-individuals with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking, and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions.

Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website.

**We’re disability confident**
GCHQ is proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP’s Disability Confident scheme. This initiative encourages employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain, and develop disabled people.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who best meet the essential minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview, where practical. (This is known as an “Offer of an interview”).

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