Project Support Officer - Braintree District Council

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Support Officer to join our Strategic Investment team on a fixed term period of 12 months, where you will work closely with Project Managers on a range of new and existing projects, providing support to ensure they are delivered on time and within budget. The role will involve preparing standard reports, including data management and analysis, dashboards and file structures. You will also arrange meetings, coordinate any information required and take minutes and provide quality assurance documentation by completing audit reviews, health checks and configuration management. Alongside this you will manage a high volume of telephone and email correspondence and provide management reporting information in order to support the team to successfully deliver on projects.,

• To provide project related support to the Strategic Investment team including preparing standard reports, dashboards, file structures, arranging meetings and maintaining project related records.
• To provide reports on information management, data management and data analysis.
• RAG reporting, data validation.
• To oversee the co-ordination of issues; risks, change control, documentation and any other logs that need control including procurement.
• To provide quality assurance documentation by completing audits reviews, health checks, checking gateways and configuration management.
• Creating and updating Excel spreadsheets and Word documents.
• Arrange project meetings, take minutes and co-ordinate any necessary information required for each meeting.
• Answer general telephone enquiries.
• Arrange project appointments and meetings internally and externally, on behalf of other officers.
  
  With the ability to work as part of a team in a busy environment, you will be highly organised and pro-active in your approach and able to manage, balance and meet challenging deadlines in an ever-changing environment.
You will have excellent IT skills, ideally some experience of working on projects, good communications skills and be able to use your own initiative to make suggestions and improvements to ways of working.

Braintree District Council is an ambitious and forward-thinking authority with a vision of creating a great place for our residents and businesses. As a Council our role is as a guardian of the place and its people; where residents live well in healthy and resilient communities; a well-connected district with high-quality homes delivered with the infrastructure and a place which attracts and provides good employment opportunities. We are becoming one of the fastest growing Districts in the East of England with three growing towns, London just 45 minutes away and the district located directly between the international transport centres of Stansted Airport and Harwich and Felixstowe International Ports. We have a deserved track record for delivering and a strong reputation within the business community and are committed

Braintree District Council is a great place to work. We pride ourselves on our creative and innovative approach which is led by our staff. We are committed to having an engaged workforce who understand our strategy and how they can help deliver it. Some of the benefits of working for Braintree District Council are:
• Flexible working
• Hybrid working arrangements are available in this role (home/office based) subject to business need
• Free parking
• Local government pension scheme
• Learning and development for all staff
• Staff recognition schemes
• Extensive health and wellbeing programme including discounted gym membership.