Project Control Officer
Listed on 2026-09-12
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Business
Office Administrator/ Coordinator, Business Administration
IR35 Status:
Inside
Start: ASAP...
Role OverviewA Project Control Officer (DV Cleared) is required for our government client to assist on a portfolio of projects.
You will provide project delivery within the Project Management team and provide support to the Project Manager relating to supplier orders and invoices, project planning, project financial management, project documentation and reporting.This is a varied role which is essential to allow the Project Manager’s to fully concentrate on the delivery of their projects and the the role will involve working in a busy project environment working to time scales that may be extremely tight.Essential
Skills & Experience required:
As the Project Control Officer (DV Cleared) you will possess the following:
Good interpersonal and team player skills
Good drafting skills such as minute taking.
Good numerical and project financial skills
Able to manage and prioritise your workload and time effectively and being able to respond to changing priorities.
Proficient with core applications such as MS Word, Outlook and Excel.
MS Project 2007
Previous experience of working within a project environment, ideally supporting either large projects or multiple smaller projects within government departments is desirable
APM Fundamentals or Prince 2 Foundation or Practitioner qualification and experience
Would be any knowledge of Oracle financial systems
Responsibilities include:- To provide a comprehensive project support service directly supporting Programme Managers and Project Managers
- Act as point of contact in the team for internal and external customers, responding promptly to queries
- Organise and manage dates and documentation for programme and project meetings
- Organise and attend relevant internal IT meetings, including formulating and circulating agendas and action lists
- Oversee Risks and Issues management
- Ensuring compliance to commercial gate review process including where necessary preparation of documentation.
- To play a key role in the development and monitoring of projects, checking quality of output and compliance with business requirements, including commitments in proposals
- Monitor the delivery of work streams against plans, chasing and challenging progress as appropriate.
- Represent the Project Manager at meetings as requested.
- Administer, monitor and report on projects budgets in accordance with the Clients processes and timetables.
- Responsible for tracking actual project costs against allocated budgets and producing monthly reports
- Create or maintain project plans using MS Project.
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