Project Management Officer

Join us as a Project Management Officer

• This is an opportunity to take on a new challenge in a project support role.
• You’ll have the chance to make a tangible impact on our function and develop your skills.
• Take on this exciting, fast-paced role, and advance your career with us.
• This role comes with flexi-working, so you can start and end work when you want, as long as you work your weekly hours and you’re working within core times.
• You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a significant amount of time working from our Bristol office.

What you'll do

It’ll be your responsibility to support and improve the planning and delivery process by collecting and maintaining data in a consistent form. You’ll do this by supporting project governance and control, including tracking the performance and progress of projects, project financial control, and adoption. You will support the Senior Responsible Officers and CDIO colleagues across Wealth CDIO projects.

You’ll also promote programme and project management methods and standards and implement good programme and project management practices, and monitor certain programmes or projects.

As well as this, you'll:

• Provide secretariat activities including meeting minutes, input papers, terms of reference, and communications to stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain quality assurance activities for various project deliverables and knowledge management activities, such as maintaining repositories and ensuring compliance with established processes.
• Build the reporting of baseline information for the programmes, including RAID, progress, and detailed milestones of the programme and change control.
• Support in the identification of cross-project dependencies and monitor these.
• Support management in the implementation of agreed regular progress reporting mechanisms for all projects.

The skills you'll need

You’ll need experience in internal or external project support roles and knowledge of project types and the project lifecycle.

You'll also need:

• Extensive experience in using tools such as Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, MSP, Planview, Oracle, and SharePoint.
• Knowledge of our processes, procedures, and risk frameworks.
• Experience in IT project support.