Project Support Officer - Skills and Employment

Collaborative, open, inclusive, and fair - we work with and through partners to ensure Londoners can shape healthy, empowered and productive lives. Communities and Skills is led by Executive Director, Tunde Olayinka and is comprised of the following units: Civil Society & Sport, Communities & Social Policy, Group Public Health Unit, Skills and Employment and Health, Children and Young Londoners.

About the role

To provide business support services to the Skills & Employment Unit including implementing processes for Skills Decisions, organising team events/meetings/Awaydays and co-ordinating corporate tasks including the monthly Mayor's Question Time (MQT), allocation of correspondence from members of the public (Write Ons) and Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, including drafting responses to the more straightforward issues.

What your day will look like (bullet points)

Working with colleagues across the Skills & Employment Unit, the successful applicant will be:

Providing high quality business support to the Units PMO; including minute taking and action chasing

Organising team events such as Away Day

Processing Skills Decisions: key actions to deliver the Unit's projects.

Managing responses to key corporate activities of MQTs, WriteOns and FOIs

Undertaking other administrative responsibilities including risk management activities

Skills, knowledge and experience

To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:

Evidence of providing high-level business support to a senior manager.

Evidence of providing high-level support for a large team including implementing processes to support staff., The GLA Competency Framework Guidelines further detailing each competency and the different level indicators can be found here: GLA Competency Framework

Experience of using IT systems including MS Outlook, word-processing, spreadsheets, and databases.

Strong communication skills and experience of working to demanding deadlines and working with a range of stakeholders., Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record (DBS) check but some roles may require additional security screening.

GLA staff are hybrid working up to 3 days a week in our offices and remotely depending on their role. As part of this, you will need to split your time between home working and coming into the office.

In addition to a good salary package, you will be paid every four weeks, providing frequent salary payments. We also offer an attractive range of benefits including 30 days' annual leave, interest free season ticket loan, interest free bicycle loan and a career average pension scheme.