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Full-time Project Officer – Home to School Transport

at The Jeya Group in Durham

We are looking for a Project Officer – Home to School Transport that will support the delivery of home to school transport service transformation programme, assisting with the management, co-ordination and delivery of the programme to help ensure the Council achieve its objectives.

Duties and responsibilities:

To produce documentation, including work packages, descriptions, plans and quality control documents, in accordance with programme and project guidelines and under the guidance of the Transformation Manager – Home to School Transport.
To be responsible for assisting in the coordination and management of project work packages where required. This will involve ensuring delivery within the agreed time and budget and reporting any deviations to the Transformation Manager – Home to School Transport.
To monitor the programme budget and track expenditure against the forecast, reporting deviations to the Transformation Manager – Home to School Transport.
To support the management of the programme benefits realisation management.
To develop and have day-to-day responsibility for monitoring the risk management and quality process, ensuring those responsible for risks adhere to the process requirements.
To carry out general administrative tasks including updating and maintaining the programme filing system under programme and project guidelines.
To carry out general administrative tasks including data input and data gathering as required by the programme.
To prepare, organise and follow up project meetings. This will involve organisation of attendance, preparation of documentation, recording minutes and circulating information following the meeting.
To manage information needs including developing, managing and being responsible for electronic information.
To provide business change and adoption support across the full Home to School Transport Transformation programme.
To carry out any other duties which fall within the broad spirit, scope, and purpose of this job description.

The candidates must have:

NVQ Level 4 in a business related discipline and/or experience in a project support role
Extensive experience of working within a busy service within a local authority or private sector.
Knowledge of project management methodologies, systems and procedures.
Track record of successfully engaging with others in a diverse organisation, building positive working relationships
Experience of budget/benefits monitoring
Contributing to project management documentation (including PIDs, gantt charts, critical path, process maps)
Undertaking research including benchmarking and identification of best practice
Is self-aware, acts proactively, accepts personal responsibility.
Communicates effectively both orally and in writing with a broad range of stakeholders
The ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines
The ability to respond to unforeseen changes.
Ability to work under & respond positively to pressure.
Excellent presentational skills.
Excellent ICT skills.
Able to work closely and establish positive relationships with staff at all levels, as well as all other stakeholders, whilst being politically aware.
Flexible and adaptable – responds positively to changing demands and willing to be flexible in order to achieve deadlines.
Portrays a professional manner
Positive attitude
Aptitude & desire to establish a positive customer experience.
Understanding of the needs of others.
Highly motivated
Personable and approachable
Strong organisational and coordination skills.
Ability to challenge the status quo in a constructive and professional manner

Pay rate: £17.11 p/hr
Reference : Project Officer – Home to School Transport jobs


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