Project Support Officer - Weybridge, United Kingdom - Animal and Plant Health Agency

Animal and Plant Health Agency

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Weybridge, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £27,470 - £32,074

Prorata salary for job share

National:
£27,470 - £28,606.

London:
£30,827 - £32,074.

Job grade:

Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Commissioning and Project Support (CAPS), Science Strategy and Planning (SSP)
Type of role:
Administration / Corporate Support
Project Delivery
Science
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Job summary:

Do you have excellent communication skills, thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment and enjoy working to tight deadlines?
If so, we would love to hear from you

The Animal Plant Health Agency (APHA) is a government agency that sits within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

APHA works on behalf of the Scottish Government and Welsh Government.

Our diverse teams of over 3,000 skilled and committed professionals come together to provide research, advice, and support to UK Government for safeguarding animal, public and plant health for benefit of the environment and economy.

The Science Directorate (SD) delivers high quality, high impact and highly relevant multidisciplinary science.

Our People are diverse, talented, engaged and inspired to deliver innovative outcomes and you will be part of this workforce supporting our staff.

The purpose of the role is as follows:

Support PLs in the planning of new projects
Monitor scientific and delivery progress of projects, and their financial status
Ensure projects are planned onto the APHA business systems
Stakeholder reporting and communication
Assist with the submission of project / contract documentation
Maintaining registered files and supporting audit requirements
To advise on funding / business opportunities in accordance with Agency Procedures and processes

Job description:

To advise on funding/business opportunities in accordance with Agency Procedures and processes

Provide advice and guidance in relation to new requests for work and/or extension to existing projects. Recommend projects to be reviewed at project approval meetings to exercise governance, ensure that the correct forms and costing are included with submission.
Use of recognised project management methodologies and techniques to provide project support to APHA Project Leaders (PLs) and budget holders to ensure their projects are planned, monitored and controlled effectively

Key contacts may include:
PLs, project team members, heads of department, work group leaders, lead scientists, network procurement, sub-contractors/collaborators/suppliers, customers (e.g. external organisations, policy leads, devolved administrations, funding sponsors).

Support Project Leaders in the planning of new projects (prior to approval)

Provide advice and guidance concerning APHA Business Systems, Contracts and Customers where required.
Support the Project Leader in the processing and completion of the Project Initiation Document (PID) where appropriate.
Obtain costings for all project elements Input information to generate official project costings, prior to customer quotations, using appropriate and margin.

Monitor scientific and delivery progress of projects, and their financial status

Ensure that systems are regularly updated with the correct project milestones and deliverables information, to ensure the accuracy of KPIs (key performance indicators).
Attend inyear project meetings when appropriate, provide guidance on financial, administration and planning issues.
Attend and actively participate at Finance Review Meetings, providing status updates on forecasting and budgets.
Attend related project meetings, budget and forecasting reviews with Project Leaders and budget holders.

Ensure projects are planned onto the APHA business systems

Plan all projects into required systems.
Ensure that projects are correctly set up in Oracle for invoicing purposes. Utilise Oracle Discoverer for financial reconciliation activities.

Stakeholder reporting and communication

Develop and maintain communication routes and relationships to ensure that all stakeholders are advised, as appropriate, of project progress and delivery.
Provide analysis and information to PLs, lead scientists, heads of department and other stakeholders to support them in their project/portfolio management responsibilities.
Participate in project customer meetings as appropriate.
Produce progress reports at agreed timescales for PLs, lead scientists, heads of department and other stakeholders
Input financial and administration information into annual and final reports
Work closely with finance teams to support the delivery of accurate information to Defra and customers

**Assist with the submission of project / contract documen