Project Support Officer

Pay: £15.06 per hour

Length: 12 months

Days/Hours: Monday - Friday

Location: Hybrid (Home and One Angel Square)

Opus People Solutions are recruiting on behalf West Northamptonshire council for Project Support Officer to deliver comprehensive and effective support to all aspects of programme and project management. To provide software support tools advice to project teams to include the use and exploitation of MS Project, MS Visio and others. To provide project support as required across the programmes & projects within the organisation.

The role involves:

1. Establish consistent, fit for purpose processes and working practices for key project processes such as status reporting, planning, risk/issue management and change control.
2. Embed and operate comprehensive and effective performance reporting processes for projects to deliver the successful implementation of council transformation programmes and projects.
3. Help the project teams in the use and exploitation of the available project management software tools, such as MS Project, MS Visio and any other as required.
4. Promote and encourage the benefits of project standards and processes, influence and persuade the project team and stakeholders of the value of following a disciplined approach and adopting project management best practice.
5. Collect, analyse and report on project specific and comparative management and performance information to meet all stakeholder requirements.
6. Contribute to the work of the project teams, providing project management support for business case development, planning and the application of common standards.
7. Identify opportunities to improve and/or simplify project processes and seek to remedy these through improved processes, improved compliance or coaching.
8. Act as a secretariat for Programme and Project Boards, providing professional advice and guidance in the appropriate use of project management best practice.

For more information or to process your application for this role, please apply online now.