# Project Support Officer

**Company**: UK Health Security Agency
**Location**: Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London (Canary Wharf)
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £33,422 to £45,353 a year
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Project Support Officer role within Regions Data Science, Epidemiology Data Science Unit supports the delivery of project objectives.

You will enable the smooth running of the project by supporting the Senior Project Manager and Project Leads through the operation of project management processes.

Responsibilities:

- Planning and scheduling: implement and maintain systems for effective planning and scheduling

- Monitoring and reporting: establish and maintain project controls, prepare project performance reports

- Administration: ensure organisational tasks are carried out efficiently, manage compliance with Departmental Security, Health and Safety, Equality and Diversity, Business Continuity and Business Planning

- Resources: lead a team responsible for identifying, developing and deploying resources, manage workforce planning

- Stakeholder management: manage professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders

- Financial control: monitor project spend, contribute to the compilation of budgets and the development of the business case

- Risks and issues: manage potential risk areas, work with risk managers and escalate as appropriate

Essential criteria:

- Working knowledge in a project or programme environment covering planning, scheduling, resource management, risk and issue management, change control, governance, project methodologies and assurance

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to develop effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders

- Works well under pressure, effectively manages multiple tasks and has a keen attention to detail

- Ability to use digital tools and data analytics to support effective decision making in projects

- Experience of promoting best practice and lessons learned to support continuous improvement

- Strong capability in using Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

Benefits:

- Hybrid working opportunities

- Flexible working model

- Modern and newly refurbished offices with excellent city centre transport links

Location: Hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs in Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London (Canary Wharf)

Salary: £33,422 to £45,353 a year per annum, pro rata

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- planning
- scheduling
- resource management
- risk management
- Microsoft Office
- data analytics
- communication
- interpersonal skills

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