Project Support Officers

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Project Support Officers - Central London

*** Excellent opportunity to be sponsored for DV Clearance ***

About Us

Capita Resourcing is a specialist consultancy that provides an Employed Resource Model (ERM) service to Security Cleared organisations in both the Public and Private sectors.

Our Project Consultants are highly valued and integral part of our client's project teams. Through delivery, consultancy and tailored solutions we create lasting partnerships that achieve mutual long term benefits. As employees of Capita, our Project Consultants have access to all of the training, experience and in-depth solution knowledge that Capita Group's 75,000 professionals can offer.

Working as embedded consultants with our clients, offers our Project Consultants the opportunity to develop and grow as a professional within a commercial organisation where the work they do creates a true impact on the client's mission and strategy, ensuring the delivery of results.

Our projects and who we work with?

Project Consultants within Capita have the opportunity of working with our clients across multiple industries including:

* Government Defence & Security

* Private Sector DefenceOrganisations

* Financial Services

* Telecommunications

Whilst no two projects are ever the same, we offer the chance to work on cutting edge projects with some of the brightest minds in technology.

Our Project Consultants will have exposure to a wide range of stakeholders ensuring key milestones and deliveries are met and that the work they deliver has a real impact on the client's business. Our Projects are within an environment that very few people get exposure to and are genuinely interesting, innovative and important.

Our Project Consultants will have exposure to a number of phases within a project lifecycle, have the ability to lead and motivate a team of diverse individuals, be familiar with Project methodologies and principles and be able to work within an iterative, software development driven environment.

Project Brief

Capita is currently embarking on a major recruitment drive to recruit between 5 - 10 ambitious and highly talented Project Support Officers to join an innovative Project Support team working within a fast-paced environment.

We have put plans in place for a number of several cutting edge transformation and change projects to commence in 12 months' time (October 2018) which will require dedicated support from experienced project support officers and co-ordinators.

As these projects will take place within highly secured environments, Project Support Officers will be required to undergo DV Clearance will need to meet a strict eligibility criteria before we can determine whether you can undergo this level of security vetting.

We do need to stress that the process of this level of security vetting can take 12 months to complete and once approved, only then will you be allowed onsite to work on these projects. We can only confirm a start date once your security vetting process has been completed and you have been granted DV clearance.

Candidate Profile

We are looking for experienced Project Support Officers with a demonstrable pedigree of supporting large-scale and challenging projects (more than £500k sized budgets).

For this, we will offer the Senior Project Support Officers the opportunity to work in a diverse and experienced team and play a crucial role in changing the outlook of the client organisation.

This role would suit Senior Project Support Officers with a keen eye for detail with excellent organisational and administration skills who are seeking to make a huge difference and wants to build on their existing skills and experience.

The Senior Project Support Officers we will be looking to recruit must possess and demonstrate the following mandatory skills and experience:

* Strong experience of applying appropriate and differing methodologies/techniques to aid projects and maximise delivery success.

* Strong experience of using enterprise project portfolio software (i.e. MS Projects, Primavera, etc.).

* Experience of running the budget costs of a project.

* General administrative skills including the use of MS packages.

* Good interpersonal skills, able to work with all levels within the programme team and multiple stakeholders with competing priorities.

* Good communication and listening skills and the ability to deal with key project stakeholders.

Why Capita?

Our employees bring with them a wealth of knowledge and expertise, to utilise these effectively, our overall approach is based on a distinct set of values which we believe stand us apart from many large businesses:

* Openness- we are honest and transparent, acting with integrity, embracing diversity and respecting our colleagues and clients.

* Ingenuity- we have the courage to do things differently, think smart and look for new and innovative solutions.

* Collaborative- we benefit from shared ideas and our clients do too; working in partnership to solve challenges and combining the talents of all our businesses and those of the organisations we support.

* Effective- we deliver what we promise and believe that great service can always be better.

What We Offer

In return Capita offer all our Project Consultants:

* Competitive salary (£30,000 - £35,000 per annum dependent on your skills and experience)

* Performance related bonus scheme

* 23 day's holiday (increasing with service)

* Company Pension Scheme

* Tailored Industry recognised training and development

* On-going dedicated support and mentoring

* Opportunities to work with a wide range of clients on diverse and industry leading projects

* Genuine work / Life balance not always found within consultancy

* Career development

* In addition you will have access to voluntary benefit options including; child care vouchers, share save scheme, life assurance, holiday buy and many more designed to suit your own personal lifecycle.

Assessment Event

We anticipate a high level of interest for these roles, therefore to ensure we select and recruit the best Project Support Officers; we will be holding a recruitment event in Central London on Thursday 12th October in which we will be conducting face-to-face interviews with the best candidates. Please only apply for these roles if you can make yourself available to attend this day event.

Contact

If you're interested or would like to discuss further, please get email your updated CV outlining why we should consider you for these roles to Mustafa Miah