Senior Project Support Officer

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Senior Project Support Officer

This role requires on-site working within the North West.

If you are an enthusiastic and motivated individual who pays particular attention to detail and want to kick start your career in project management then this is the role for you.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Project Support Officer to join the North West Ambulance Service’s Programme Management Office (PMO). The role is based at Broughton House in Preston with a minimum of two days a week working in the office.

You’ll need to be flexible and adaptable, as you’ll be supporting a varied workload across a wide range of projects.

Senior Project Support Officers provide vital support to project managers; this role requires a highly organised, proactive professional who has the capability to work on a variety of projects. As a Senior Project Support Officer, you won’t only perform routine administrative duties like minute-taking rather, your responsibilities will be inextricably tied to the success of the project you are working on.

Driving everything forward from planning to implementation, your actions will directly influence the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the project. This exciting role will lead you to work with a variety of key stakeholders both inside and outside of the Trust and will provide the opportunity to be part of a team that delivers fundamental change to continually improve patient care.

The PMO here at NWAS is filled with friendly, dynamic and skilled project professionals with a great ethos and drive for delivery. We are supportive, compassionate and focused on improving patient care with the projects we are delivering. We offer a clear career pathway and are passionate about developing our staff to succeed in their project management journey.

The organisation also places a high emphasis and importance on staff health and wellbeing with a pool of resources available to all staff and a range of support networks aimed at diversity and inclusion.

The role will involve…