Project Support Officer
A new opportunity has arisen to work with a long established and well-respected mortgage lender as a Project Support Officer. This role will be responsible for assisting in the delivery of a wide range of projects across the organisation that deliver transformational, strategic, regulatory, and operational change to agreed schedules, quality, and budgetary constraints.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Provide support to ensure the successful delivery and embedding of projects.
- Gain confidence of stakeholders to achieve project objectives.
- Support change management governance and ensure adherence for all projects
- Provide project reports as required.
- Build strong internal networks
- Advise on the alignment of portfolio capacity planning and required resources to successfully deliver the programmes/projects
- Provide verbal and written communication to Society staff regarding project progress.
- Ensure consistency of approach; adherence of change governance framework processes and documentation to provide delivery confidence.
- Creation of end to end project plans including, but not limited to, Project Initiation Documents (PID), Risk Assumptions Issues and Dependencies Logs (RAID) and Post Implementation Review (PIR).
- Identify areas of non-compliance within the business and report as appropriate
- Maintain the highest standards of administration reporting any failures or breaches of the organisations procedures
Essential Skills:
- Proven experience of working in an administrative role to deadlines
- Strong grasp of Microsoft programmes including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with those at all levels (Board of Directors, Executives, Managers, Colleagues, 3rd Parties etc.)
- Excellent organisation skills, including the ability to prioritise and work to strict and tight deadlines
- Ability to work alone and use own initiative
- Willingness and ability to be flexible
Desirable Skills:
- PRINCE2 Foundation Certificate in Project Management
- A Levels of Level 3 equivalent (BTEC, Diploma)
- 5 GCSE’s/O-Levels (A-C)
- Demonstrable experience of project management and/or involvement in project activity.
- Experience of working in financial services