Project Control Officer / Junior Project Manager

Project Controller - Contract - Gloucestershire - Excellent Rates

Our client has exciting opportunity for a Project Control Officer for a contract role based in Gloucestershire. Roles are for 12 months initially and be Prince 2 Qualified.

Responsibilities:

• Provide advice and assistance to support adherence to project processes, using influence where necessary work with a range of stakeholders to agree appropriate actions.
• Provide support and process advice at client meetings.
• Participate in knowledge sharing activities with a view to developing continuous improvement to the service.
• Provide advice and guidance to the client in the appropriate use of PRINCE2.
• Work effectively within a multi-team environment.
• Planning lifecycle coordination
• Schedule updates
• Financial management
• Risk and Issue lifecycle management and maintenance
• Stage Boundary facilitation
• Communications planning, delivery and maintenance
• Reporting and key management information assurance
• Key meetings support

Requirements:

Stakeholder Management:

• Experience of working in a consultancy or customer- facing role (either with internal or external clients)
• Problem identification, report writing, recommending actions and building relationships with immediate contacts
• Open to new ideas - both in generating suggestions and sharing good practice

People Skills:

• Works well in a team; displaying an open, honest and collaborative style
• Conveys information clearly and articulately
• Provide high end support and can hit the ground running
• Provide high end support

Technical Management Skills:

• Planning, monitoring and reporting
• Change control
• Issue and Risk management
• Document management
• Requirements management
• Finance
• P6 experience would be highly desirable
• Working knowledge of financial processes and ability to report financial data would be advantageous
• PRINCE2 Foundation and/or Practitioner
• Agile knowledge and or experience would be advantageous
• Advanced Excel skills would be highly desirable
• Managing Successful Programmes Foundation, Practitioner would be ideal.

Financial Management:

• Managing budgets
• Managing complex spreadsheets
• Managing burn rates

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