Resource Allocation Support Officer

**Salary**: 28-32k + Benefits **Status**:Permanent /Full-time strongly preferable (however can potentially be flexible) **About Us.** Energy Systems Catapult was set up to accelerate the transformation of the UK's energy system and ensure UK businesses and consumers capture the opportunities of clean growth on the way to Net Zero. The Catapult is an independent, not-for-profit centre of excellence that bridges the gap between industry, government, academia and research. We take a whole-systems view of the energy sector, helping us to identify and address innovation priorities and market barriers, in order to decarbonise the energy system at the lowest cost. **Context** The role will support the Energy Systems Catapult's operational resource planning and management process where business leaders, project managers and experts collaborate to identify, plan and agree mutually beneficial resource solutions with the right skills and capacity to deliver innovation projects and programmes in pursuit of the net zero mission. **Responsibilities** Support the Catapult's resource allocation process: Organise and Administer the weekly resource planning meeting and support resource planning discussions with colleagues from across the business to agree mutually beneficial resource solutions that will deliver successful innovation outcomes and impact. Support colleagues to allocate and manage internal expert resources across a complex and growing portfolio of innovation projects and programmes. Support colleagues to identify emerging and potential resource capacity issues and mitigations to resolve them. Support colleagues to carry out their own responsibilities in the resource planning and management process, and support best practice in relation to collaboration and communication around resourcing. Support the planned integration of the resource management process with the bid management process and project delivery process. Support work to perform "what if" forecast scenarios and identify potential resource capacity issues and trade-offs to support decision-making. Maintain a resource management information 'system' that comprises linked Excel spreadsheets on SharePoint. Maintain the "back office" log of resource allocation decisions and ensure the resource management system is updated in a timely fashion to reflect those decisions. **What credentials are we ideally looking for ?** Very good people skills, with the ability to initiate and facilitate discussions with project managers and resource managers, securing their continued support to and trust in the process while also ensuring the resource planning and management process is robust and reliable. Assertiveness skills, with the ability to support business leaders, project managers, resource managers and team members in their efforts to negotiate and broker agreement between on mutually beneficial resource solutions. Strong Excel skills, ideally with the ability to perform pivot table analysis and use power query functionality (VBA is not required but may be useful). Experience of supporting project management/delivery and resource management. Experience of working in an innovation environment. **Would you like to Apply?** Please note that at this time we are **unable** to provide UK visa sponsorship. **(Strictly No Agencies).** **Privacy Statement** **Purpose of the Privacy Statement** The purpose of this Privacy Statement is to make you aware of how and why your personal data will be used during any recruitment process and how long it will usually be retained for. This statement provides you with certain information that must be provided under the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (GDPR). In the recruitment process we, Energy Systems Catapult Limited, are a "Data Controller". This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal data about you. **Data Protection Principles** We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be: Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way; Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes; Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes; Accurate and kept up to date; Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about; Kept securely. **The Kind of Personal Data we hold about you** The information you have provided to us in your curriculum vitae and covering letter; Any information you provide to us during an interview; Any other information provided by you as part of the recruitment process. We may ask you for information to allow us to monitor our equal opportunities and diversity performance in recruitment. Also, if you inform us that you have a disability we will keep this information on record to allow us to make reasonable adjustments as needed. **How we will use your Personal Data** We will use the personal