The Role - Are you someone who thrives on challenges and possesses excellent organizational skills? Join our busy Transformation and Improvement team within the Children, Families and Education Directorate. This role offers a diverse array of responsibilities, including project management and delivery and essential support functions for Children, Families and Education governance and inspection management.
Contract - Initial 3 to 6 month ongoing contract with the opportunity to extend
- PAYE via Umbrella
- Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Principal Accountabilities- Carry out a wide range of project support functions including developing and maintaining project plans, risks registers, issue logs, change control records and reporting systems.
- Responsible for collecting, chasing and maintaining information, and developing a records library ensuring documentation is filed on shared networks such as SharePoint.
- Carry out research, benchmarking exercises, audits and data collection and analysis relevant to the project, to inform the decision-making process and assist with adopting best practice across the organisation.
- Advise and assist the project team on the use of project plans, documentation, and recording and reporting standards, monitoring compliance and advising on appropriate action as needed.
- To contribute to the preparation of reports for various governance boards, by liaising with key contacts and stakeholders to gather relevant information and statistics.
- Responsible for preparing documents, presentations, project reports, arranging meetings and events, taking minutes and monitoring and following up on actions, to ensure the smooth operation of the project.
Requirements - Knowledge and understanding of project/programme management methodologies, tools and techniques
- Experience working in a housing association or council
- Familiar with the project development life cycle
and typical problems associated with the implementation of organisation wide projects and programmes - Able to command the respect of colleagues and stakeholders through demonstrating a professional approach to work
If you are interested in this position AND meet the requirements,
APPLY NOW!