Corporate Project Officer - 12 month FTC

Salary 37,336

Hybrid - on site in Hessle (East Riding of Yorkshire) 3 days a week

Can you - Service lead on project management. Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and implementation plans, including risk mitigation and project evaluation. Manage the day-to-day activities to ensure projects are completed in scope, on time and within the allocated budget and resource. Then this role could be for you.

Do you have

Robust understanding of project management concepts, frameworks and methodologies.

Strong leadership skills.

Excellent communication skills.

Relevant training and certifications as a Project Officer.

Strong influencing, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Good level of change management understanding to ensure project management maturity and continuous improvement.

Understanding of risk management principles and productivity and efficiency requirements.

Risk and opportunity management.

Quality assurance and controls

High levels of networking skills to identify, develop and maintain appropriate networking opportunities.

Ability to use Microsoft Suite of ICT packages to a high level of proficiency.

Ability to meet strict deadlines and prioritise work accordingly to ensure changing deadlines are met.

Ability to work effectively as an individual with autonomy and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Ability to produce clear and concise reports and briefing notes for submission to senior management, stakeholders and external organisations.

What You'll do -

Plan and oversee project development across the Service.

Develop and maintain a project management framework and governance structure for the Service's project management operations to function under.

Plan specific and/or complex workstreams within a project, taking into account task length, sequencing and dependencies, in order to produce realistic project plans and Gantt charts.

Support a range of workstreams within the programme or project and identify key milestones, allowing workstreams to be monitored.

Mitigate project management issues and challenges. Where slippage occurs, make proposals to rectify the issue and adjust the plan as required.

Set up meetings, schedule tasks and manage resources as required to plan, develop and implement the projects.

Monitor and report on projects progress, budget and resources to Strategic and Corporate management.

Quality assure projects to ensure they meet requisite standards, adhere to budgets, and meet deadlines. Set measurable outcomes and metrics

Following project closure, evaluate conclusion against project scope, outcomes and metrics.