Programme Officer - NatWest Group - #2190323

Join us as a Programme Officer

• This is an opportunity to take on a new challenge in a project support role
• You'll have the chance to make a tangible impact on our function and develop your skills
• Take on this exciting, fast paced role, and advance your career with us

What you'll do

You'll be improving the planning and delivery process by collecting and maintaining data in a consistent form. You'll also support the project governance and control including tracking the performance and progress of projects, project financial control and adoption.

It'll be your responsibility to:

• Implement guidelines, procedures and templates to collect and maintain consistent data, and provide hands-on delivery support to a programme or project
• Drive the creation and update of programme or project plans as required by the programme or project manager
• Support the identification of where cross-project dependencies exist and track or monitor these in support of the manager
• Implement agreed regular progress reporting mechanisms for all projects and thereby monitor routine progress of projects, and assist in the preparation of the programme status or project highlight reports
• Establish and maintain an information management system, managing both electronic and hard-copy configuration libraries

The skills you'll need

You'll need experience of project support roles internally or externally, and knowledge of project types and the project lifecycle.

You'll also need:

• Strong pan-franchise, pan-entity programme and project support experience, with an understanding of project planning, governance, and the project lifecycle
• Experience of maintaining project plans and tracking progress, actions, risks, issues, and cross-project dependencies
• Good reporting and analytical skills, with the ability to maintain accurate project data and support the production of status and highlight reports
• Experience in managing budgets and forecasts across multiple programmes of work (pan-franchise & pan-entity), with confidence working with project information and financial data
• Strong senior stakeholder and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with project managers and wider project teams across the franchise and group
• Good working knowledge of project tools and systems, such as Microsoft Office, Planview, Oracle and SharePoint
• Strong organisation and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment
• Management of third-parties, including the procurement life-cycle through to invoice management