Programme Officer

• This is an opportunity to take on a new challenge in a programme 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
• Flexible working options will be considered

What you'll do

You’ll be improving the planning and delivery process by collecting and maintaining data in a consistent form. You’ll also support the project governance and control including tracking the performance and progress of programmes, programme financial control and adoption and co-ordination and delivery of key programme governance forum packs.

It’ll be your responsibility to:

• Co-ordinate and deliver key programme governance forum packs
• Develop guidelines, procedures and templates to collect and maintain consistent data, and provide hands-on delivery support to a programme or project
• Support with the creation and update of programme or project plans as required by the programme or project manager
• Support the identification of where cross-project dependencies exist and track or monitor these in support of the manager
• Support management in the implementation of agreed regular progress reporting mechanisms for all projects and thereby monitor routine progress of projects, and assist in the preparation of the programme status or project highlight reports
• Establish and maintain an information management system, managing both electronic and hard-copy configuration libraries

The skills you'll need

You’ll need experience of project support roles internally or externally, and knowledge of project types and the project lifecycle, as well as the ability to work at pace across multiple pieces of work and potentially across programmes.

You’ll also need:

• Expertise in tools such as MS Office, Planview, Oracle and SharePoint
• Knowledge of organisational processes and procedures, including risk frameworks
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills