Project Officer

Charterhouse Recruitment Ltd ,
York, North Yorkshire
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £29,000 per annum

Overview

Project Officer THE COMPANY… Our client within the Education Sector is looking to recruit for a full time position, this is a crucial role acting as Project Officer. The Project Officer will work with teams across and beyond the organisation to provide best practice project and contract management support. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING… • Selection, management, quality assurance and driving best value and excellent service delivery of subcontractors • Best practice in project management and delivery • Providing high quality project officer support across an agreed portfolio of projects and activities, working with appropriate colleagues to ensure that activities achieve appropriate targets • Building on, developing, reviewing and maintaining appropriate project documentation including risk registers, change control records, expenditure/budget records • Working with education and communications staff to identify and, where appropriate, implement mitigating actions or to escalate issues • Implementing effective monitoring to measure progress towards agreed targets and milestones and agreeing, and implementing appropriate remedial actions as required • Managing relationships with staff, sub-contractors and partners to maintain effective communications to keep all parties informed • Ensuring that sub-contracting and partnership arrangements for the programme are appropriate and managed effectively, using best practice procurement and contract management processes to manage sub-contractors • Ensuring collection of, and enabling access to, accurate and timely data on which to base reporting, internally and externally • Working with education teams to ensure accurate and timely reporting of performance against agreed targets, including preparing draft reports in line with the specification • Undertaking any other tasks as reasonably required • Some UK travel will be required YOU MUST HAVE… • Asuccessful track record in managing contracts and projects in a relevant environment • Experience of monitoring budgets • Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience of report writing • A proven ability to interact effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. • An ability to work to tight deadlines and on own initiative • Balancing priorities and resources to achieve optimum results • Managing expectations of internal and external stakeholders • Time management and dealing with competing priorities and pressures – ability to manage own workload and also communicate clearly and work effectively with colleagues to maximise outcomes WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? Full time permanent role £29,000 salary depending on experience Access to the USS pension scheme 30 days holiday plus bank holidays and a wide range of staff benefits. Charterhouse Recruitment (Yorkshire) Ltd is committed to a policy of equal opportunities in relation to job applications. A copy of our Diversity Policy is available upon request. Charterhouse Recruitment (Yorkshire) Ltd is acting in the capacity of an Employment Agency for permanent appointments and an Employment Business for temporary assignments. At Charterhouse Recruitment we are committed to protecting your personal data. Please click on the link below to read our privacy notice which provides you with all you need to know about how we will use and process your data. http://privacy-notice/