Project Support Officer
Edinburgh
Project Support Officer - Outside IR35 - 12 Month contract
Loriens leading public sector client is looking for a skilled Project support officer to join their team within their growing Change lab on an initial 12 month contract.
Management and administration of finance processes within lab. Maintain finance workbook - identify and correct errors. Present finance data in understandable format, along with analysis, and proposed opportunities for adjusting budget variance. Ensure accuracy and consistency of finance data across multiple formats, and coherency of message. Liaise with department finance team on lab finance data
Tracking delivery progress within the lab, and using this understanding to draft progress tracking and reporting, ensuring quality of reporting and appropriateness for various stakeholders
Provide support to lab leads to prepare pack for Executive Actions Boards (EAB) and ensure actions for EAB are progressed
Maintain lab RAID log and escalate actions. Supporting effective risk and issue tracking, facilitating workshops, maintaining tracking
Become familiar with the internal governance framework - LOAD - and be an ambassador for cascading and embedding the use of the LOAD framework in labs and the wider community. Be a point of contact in the lab for coaching on LOAD framework
Facilitate the preparation and maintenance of the collateral for the Authority to Proceed Packs (ATPs) for each work stream as they move through the LOAD Framework
Collate, ready for presentation all of the necessary collateral needed for preparing the internal and external audit assessments within your lab
Facilitate meetings where required
Actively participate in all " Community of Practice" meetings and events (PMO)
Understand value / benefits, and measurements of value
Understand Azure DevOps, or Jira/Confluence, and have or develop the ability to offer support to LAB team members and the capability of generating reports as required.
Understand the relevant lab data, explore and innovate ways of presentation to communicate with impact
To support the lab in compliance with relevant policies and procedures e.g. corporate project control framework, acting as a source for guidance, standards and documentation, drafting and submitting forms and required documentation. Maintaining up to date civil lab records for example lab resourcing and communications events/plans
Arranging and facilitating the full range of project events, e.g. external audits and stakeholder events
Where required, arranging meetings, drafting, collating and issuing papers and agendas, provide a minute taking role
Organise appropriate induction for all new starts in the lab
Business Skills:-
Understand business vision and value targeted of the lab Value measures and weighting
Pace, timing and business expectation Time dependent enablers and attached value impacts
Understand LOAD and audit processes and documentation
Human Resource Skills:-
Lead through example and contribute to the appropriate agile culture and values to enable business agility
Excellent communication skills
Coaching skills
This role contributes to:
Delivery of value within the lab
Supporting and developing agile delivery teams
Capability of understanding the translation of operational strategic objectives into targeted value outcomes, themes and epics
Essential skills and experience:
Experience managing project level financial reporting, organising events e.g. audit or whole lab delivery events
Good experience in embedding governance within team
Good People and communication skills
Ability to improvise and adapt
Work to deadline and mange workload to prioritise
Act as the "go to" person within Labs for LOAD, audit and RAID questions and guidance
Explain his/her area of expertise clearly to others
Not only answer why things are done, but how
Confident report builder using available report building tools
Desirable skills and experience:
The candidate will have an awareness of Digital Scotland Service Standards and Government Digital Services (GDS)
Worked in Agile delivery environments previously
Understand the language/terms/jargon in their assigned lab
Experience of Azure Dev Opps and or previous experience using Jira and Confluence
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.