Assistant Project Officer

Sheffield City Council; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Sheffield is seeking a dynamic individual to join their Sports, Leisure, and Events Team. The role involves supporting the delivery of the Leisure & Entertainment Review Delivery Programme while coordinating activities with consultants and stakeholders. Candidates should be excellent communicators and demonstrate organizational skills. The position offers flexible working options and a commitment to employee welfare, including a generous holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement

Flexible working opportunities

Responsibilities

• Support the Team and Partners in the Leisure & Entertainment Review Delivery Programme.
• Co-ordinate and monitor activities of consultants and officers.
• Engage effectively with Officers, Partners, and Stakeholders.
• Demonstrate self-starting capabilities around assigned tasks.
• Manage GDPR compliant data systems for reporting.
• Support in financial monitoring and action logs.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join Sheffield City Council's Sports, Leisure, and Events Team to support the delivery of the Leisure & Entertainment Review Delivery Programme. We are seeking a dynamic, driven, focused and extremely organised individual who can:

Responsibilities

• Make a positive contribution by supporting the Team and Partners to deliver the Leisure & Entertainment Review Delivery Programme to the approved deadlines.
• Co-ordinate and monitor consultants and officers' activities and feedback across the whole programme.
• Be an excellent communicator who can engage with Officers, Partners and Stakeholders both internal and external.
• Follow instructions as well as being a 'self-starter' around assigned tasks.
• Co-ordinate GDPR compliant systems for collecting, collating, monitoring and presenting data in a variety of formats.
• Provide support in monitoring programme finances and action logs relating to a number of workstreams.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.

Sheffield is a city dedicated to 'Moving More', it has a proud sporting history and has been recognised as the 'Outdoor City'. We want to make it easy for people across Sheffield to become active and lead healthy lifestyles whoever they are, wherever they live.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.