Project Support Officer

Job description

  Location
Romford, Essex
·  Category
Public Sector - Public Sector
·  Job type
Temporary
·  Industry
Public Sector
·  External Reference
JN-072019-81523

The client is looking for a temporary Project Officer to join their existing team. The ideal candidate would be working as part of the transformation team supporting the creation of project plans.

The duties of the role would include;

- Maintain project plans, risk and issue logs ensuring actions are completed to deadline, reporting to the PM and work stream leads on any overdue or delayed outcomes.

- Organise project management and stakeholder meetings, and attend such meetings in a supporting role to record actions and update project plans and risk logs as required.

- Produce progress reports for the Project/programme manager as required.

- Support the preparation of presentations for events using relevant software.

- support the organisation and delivery of internal and external events as required.

- Liaise with officers from partners, other councils and OGOs, as relevant.

- General administration and project work that supports the smooth running of the Locality Programme.

- Any other duties that are commensurate with the role and functions of the team.

- Carry out desk-based research to help inform research priorities and policy development.

- Working with relevant service areas and other areas of the transformation to ensure dependencies are raised and understood

- Gathering relevant information, such as objectives, criteria, deadlines and presenting them to relevant council officers and stakeholders.

- Keeping and updating a comprehensive database of all external contacts and Stakeholders

The ideal candidate would have previous project support experience, be highly organised and be able to work to tight deadlines.

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