Project Officer Vacancy in Training Sector, Chestyerfield, Derbyshire

Project Officer, Training Sector

This is a Fixed Term position on an initial 3 Month Contract, however a permanent role could develop depending on performance.

Location: Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Salary: £14,000 – £16,999 (Negotiable)

Hours: 37.5

Job Description
- Working for a successful training organisation, you will be working with and supporting the Senior Management Team (SMT) and CEO to ensure work is successfully delivered against Strategic Aims, Objectives and Individual Projects of the organisation’s Vision.
- The post holder will be a key member of the newly formed team responsible for a number of challenging and focused projects to review our established quality assurance framework to develop into a robust total quality management system. Implementation of this framework, which is to be directed at setting standards, training, development and reporting lines would enable employees to make significant contribution to work effectiveness with quality at the heart of all operations. A key role is also to carry out the creating, testing, validity and appropriateness of the standard operating procedures that will fall out of the projects and review.
- Reporting to Project Managers, the project officer will contribute to the setting up of projects and the preparation of project plans, and will assist in the delivery of the intended quality assurance framework, and all associated processes and systems. In additional the project officer will lead on the delivery of particular work streams, according to her/his background and experience.

Responsibilities:
- To work proactively within the team and staff to ensure successful delivery of the Operational Plan and Strategic Objectives of Skills.
- Lead on the delivery of projects linked to the Operational Plan
- Contributing to and writing reports, briefing papers, research and development to inform relevant parties and/or projects.

- Maintain a helpdesk, answering and fielding queries, liaising with subject experts and ensuring responses are dealt with appropriately.
- Represent Skills at steering groups, meetings, workshops, conferences and other events where appropriate.
- Create, record, evidence, verify and authenticate papers including publicity documents, workshop content and website information.

Work based on:
Supporting managers to deliver their work plans in order to ensure that the Operational Plan and Strategic Objectives of Skills and the monitoring and reporting project activity against performance indicators, including project budgets and staff time allocations.


Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Essential
- Educated to graduate level (or an equivalent level of experience)
- Experience of project management processes and delivery
- Budget planning and financial management experience
- Good oral and written communication skills, including writing for a variety of audiences
- Knowledge of methods of information gathering
- Understanding of the nature of accountability, targets, outputs and outcomes
- Completer / finisher abilities

Desirable
- Experience and knowledge of PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments)
- Experience of projects where the focus is on business justification
- Knowledge of defining organisation structure for the project and team members
- Experience in dividing projects into manageable and controllable stages

Skills
- Very good interpersonal and team skills with the ability to deal with a wide range of people including senior staff
- The intellectual and research skills to deal with new ideas and abstract concepts
- Ability to present information and data in formats for a wide range of audiences
- Excellent computer skills, experience in Microsoft Office
- Ability to manage demanding workloads including working to conflicting and changing –
- Self reliant, pro-active, able to take responsibility for areas of work and display initiative in solving problems

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Project Officer in Training Sector