Project Support Officer - #2195103

Your new company
Birmingham City Council is looking for an experienced Project Support Officer to join its Job Evaluation Team on a temporary basis.This is an excellent opportunity for a highly organised project support professional who is confident managing documentation, data, trackers and multiple workstreams. You'll play a key role in supporting the team to keep job evaluation activity organised, accurate and progressing to agreed timescales.

Your new role
You will provide high-quality project and administrative support to the Job Evaluation Team, helping to ensure key activities remain organised and on track. This will include maintaining project plans, trackers, action logs and risk information, coordinating meetings and documentation, and following up with stakeholders to ensure actions and deadlines are completed.


You will also collate and manage project data, producing accurate progress updates, reports, briefings and presentations. Working closely with HR colleagues, managers and stakeholders across the Council, you will monitor project milestones, identify outstanding actions or potential delays, and support improvements to processes and ways of working. Due to the nature of the work, you will also be responsible for handling sensitive employee and organisational information with discretion and confidentiality.

What you'll need to succeed
We're looking for someone with previous experience within Project Support, Project Administration, PMO, HR Projects or Programme Support, who is highly organised and comfortable managing multiple priorities and deadlines. You'll need excellent attention to detail and confidence working with large amounts of information while ensuring accuracy is maintained.


You'll be confident using Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint, with experience maintaining project trackers, documentation, actions and reports. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are important, along with a proactive approach and the ability to work independently, follow up outstanding actions and see activities through to completion.


Previous experience within HR, Job Evaluation, Pay & Reward or a local authority environment would be advantageous, but is not essential.


What you'll get in return
This is a temporary contract, with potential for extensions for a long term contract, offering £250 per day via an Umbrella Company.The opportunity would suit an experienced Project Support Officer looking to work within a high-profile programme in a large public-sector organisation.

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