Project Support Officer - London, United Kingdom - Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £32,858 - £38,272
  • National: £32,858 £34,586 London: £36,583 £38,272
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Higher Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • Chief Operating Officer (Corporate Functions)
    Type of role:
  • Project Delivery
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 4Contents
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Location

  • Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, SalfordAbout the job

Job summary:

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) secures UK and global prosperity by promoting and financing international trade and investment, and championing free trade


Our Mission is to:

  • Negotiate trade deals and open up markets
  • Give our exporters the tools, support and opportunities to succeed through global trade
  • Drive investment
  • Build a global appetite for British goods and services
  • Promote choice and value for UK consumers
  • Improve international trading standards and fight unfair trading practices
DBT is a great place to work.

We support one another, share our successes and challenges, empower staff to be their best and provide opportunities to build careers.

We embrace continuous learning, smarter working and diversity and inclusion. We embody the Department's Spirit, Expert, Enterprising, Engaged and Inclusive, working as One DIT. We value diversity in all its forms.


We will be seeking to recruit for four roles in the Project Delivery and Change Directorate:

Roles 1/- Flexible Resource Pool (FRP)

The aim of the Pool is to:

  • provide PD and Change support to priority programmes within DBT.
- ensure DBT has the right capability inhouse to deliver key projects, reduce recruitment issues and reliance on contingent labour.
- provide PD&C Professionals better access to career development and progression.


The Pool will offer successful applicants' exposure to a range of challenging projects across DBT to build capability, experience and technical skills.

We will also provide access to a range of informal professional career development opportunities and continuous professional development (CPD).


Roles 3/- Change Portfolio Office


The Department has a £35bn major change portfolio over 30 strategically important projects, including digital transformation programmes, major investment projects and grant schemes into key UK business sectors.

The portfolio office operates as a central project delivery management function with strategic delivery oversight of DBT's major programmes/projects and project delivery best practice.

We are currently looking for 2 Portfolio Officers to play a vital part in supporting some of these important and exciting projects.


PMO functions include:

  • Programme Support support projects throughout their delivery lifecycle to ensure they are set up and running effectively.
  • Reporting
- regular project reporting cycle using project reports to provide analysis and insight on the portfolio.

  • Risk management
- analyse risks and issues from across the portfolio and identify cross-cutting themes and challenges.

  • Planning
- collate and analyse high-level plans from across the portfolio to provide key insight to senior management

  • Project frameworks
- develop standardised project delivery frameworks, templates and guidance to support projects throughout the project lifecycle, championing best practice.

  • Analysis gather data, reports that will be utilised to identify themes, trends, insights for reporting purposes.

Please note:

Job description:


As a member of the Project Delivery & Change, you will work on a variety of projects up to 12 months at a time.

During this time, you could be required to take on some of the following roles as set out on page 119 of the Project Delivery Capability Framework
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Delivery - Supporting Day to day management of the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
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Stakeholder Management
  • Identify key stakeholders and develop effective relationships.

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Risks & Issues
  • Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate.
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Governance - Provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making.
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Risks and Issues
  • Engaging with stakeholders to identify, monitor and key risks and issues for the Project.
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Resources - Schedule / manage resources to deliver the project.
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Benefits Realisation - Ensure benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked and owned.
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Business Case - Coordinate development of the Business Case.
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Budget - Track delivery within budget.
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Assurance - Support or set appropriate project assurance.
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Change Management - Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place.

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