About the role
We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Project Support Officer to join our team. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth execution of projects by providing administrative and logistical support. Your strong organisational skills, ability to multitask, and proactive approach will be essential in helping us achieve project goals and deliver results.
What will you be doing?
- Assist in the planning and execution of various projects, ensuring timelines and deliverables are met.
- Maintain project documentation, including schedules, reports, and meeting minutes.
- Coordinate project meetings, including scheduling, preparing agendas, and following up on action items.
- Support project managers in tracking project progress, identifying risks, and implementing solutions.
- Facilitate communication among team members and stakeholders to ensure everyone is informed and engaged.
- Conduct research and gather data to support project development and decision-making processes.
- Act as a secretariat for project and deployment boards, capturing notes and providing advice on project governance.
About you
We are looking for someone with:
- A degree or equivalent qualification, or relevant experience in business change/ Project support.
- PRINCE II Foundation level or similar project management certification.
- Strong experience using Microsoft 365 tools, particularly SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams and Monday.com.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies, including waterfall and Agile.
- Strong organisational, time management, and communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work in an IT environment, managing multiple priorities and delivering to deadlines
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our Key Commitments
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.
We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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