Project Support Officer - London, United Kingdom - Capita

Capita

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Shape your future as a Project Support Officer with Capita

We are looking for a Project Support Officer to join our team of PMO professionals, where you will support the delivery of best practice project controls and develop your project knowledge and experience as part of shaping your future within PMO.

You will report to senior PMO professionals, who will provide guidance and direction on the day-to-day support that this role will deliver to our projects.

Job title:

Project Support Officer - PMO

What you'll be doing:

Facilitate project reporting cadence, ensuring inputs are requested in a timely manner and are consolidated with consistent formatting, ready for review and approvals ahead of presentation.
Support capture of actions and decisions from key project governance sessions, ensuring they are logged accordingly and resolved in a timely manner.
Ensure that any risks or issues are being captured within the required logs with the necessary fields completed.
Provide guidance on the correct templates that are required by the project based on Capita Methodology.
Support the maintenance of collaborative spaces, ensuring that accesses are kept up to date (i.e., SharePoint/Teams)
Track the review and approval of products for the project ensuring they are logged and stored accordingly.
Manage the PMO mailbox, ensuring requests are acknowledged and actioned in a timely manner.

What we're looking for:

Prior experience in a project environment is desired but not necessarily essential you will however be able to demonstrate transferable skills that are pertinent to the role.
MS suite experience, particularly in PowerPoint, Word and Excel where you will be proficient in using the base functions to provide consistently formatted outputs.
Good stakeholder management skills you will be confident in striking up 121 conversations and be able to facilitate sessions with a small audience.
A desire for challenge, proactively building a network and working with peers in support of developing knowledge and skills.
This is a homebased role but you will need to have flexibility to travel on an ad hoc basis. There are no regular travel commitments required.

_It will be necessary for you to either have Security Clearance or be able to obtain Security Clearance whilst employed in this role. To meet the necessary clearance criteria, you will need to have been resident in the UK for a minimum of 5 years _

About Capita Transform

Every day we help millions of people, by delivering innovative solutions to transform and simplify the connections between citizens and the public services they consume.

Partnering with our clients, we provide insight and cutting-edge technologies that enable our clients to focus on what they do best and make people's lives easier and simpler.

Capita's Public Service Transform teams implement improvements and change within our complex programmes.

As part of our team you will have the opportunity to work on challenging assignments across Central Government, Defence, Health & Wellbeing, Local Government and Education.

You may be asked to:

help the Royal Navy improve the training received by sailors; support TfL control emissions; improve how the NHS manages digital records; ensure citizens can access high quality local services.

You will work in blended teams with Business Analysts, Project and Programme Managers, PMO specialists, Business Change Managers and Solution / Enterprise Architects.

What's in it for you

A competitive basic salary and benefits
Private Healthcare
25 days holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks' fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave and plenty more
Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

You'll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You'll be joining a network of over 50,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors.

There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we'll provide the support you need to do just that.

Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

What we hope you'll do next:

_For more information about equal opportunities and process adjustments, please visit the Capita Careers website. _

Location:

London
,

United Kingdom

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent