Assistant Project Officer

Job description

·  Location
Wimbledon, Greater London
·  Salary
£20.05/Hour
·  Category
Public Sector - Public Sector Projects & Programmes
·  Job type
Contractor
·  Industry
Public Sector
·  External Reference
LBRW4484

LOCATION: Wandsworth

PAY RATE: £15.50 PAYE / £20.05 Umbrella

START DATE: ASAP

DURATION: 3 months minimum

OVERVIEW

Assisting in delivering the Property Capital Programmes by assisting and supporting the project management team and the Programme management Office (PMO) in undertaking all necessary duties as required by a Client to lead projects teams and successful deliver the projects and programmes.
The candidate will be working on a variety of projects across the Education and Corporate estates including school expansions and maintenance programmes.
As a member of the Housing and Regeneration team, you will be required to take professional responsibility for championing the Council's diversity agenda.

KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED:

·  An understanding of the technical, legal and commercial processes that affect and influence a capital project and programme.

·  An understanding of project management methodologies and tools.

·  Good organisational skills and excellent IT skills

EXPERIENCE:

·  Experience supporting a project team delivering capital projects and programmes

·  Experience of contributing to or directly managing the successful delivery of building construction projects.

·  Analysing and summarising information and preparing reports and policy documents, including financial management information.

·  Consultation, stakeholder engagement and working with multi-agency partners

·  Monitoring, reviewing and evaluating performance of capital programmes including identifying risks and ways to address them.

·  Working within or for a local authority client and experiences of the democratic process that influence the decision-making route is highly desirable but not essential.

·  Working within a Programme Management Office is highly desirable but not essential.

SKILLS:

·  Ability to develop and maintain relationships with a diverse group of project team members, stakeholders, customers and clients.

·  Communication skills: ability to communicate clearly, diplomatically and effectively with a diverse range of people; demonstrate a high standard of grammatical English.

·  Strong analytical skills, including the ability to analyse problems and identify creative, realistic solutions

·  Ability to develop positive effective working relationships with a range of people.

·  Ability to pay attention to detail and a produce work of a consistently high standard.

·  Numerical and statistical skills: able to carry out mathematical calculations, check the accuracy of data and interpret and present it simply and concisely.

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