Associate Project Manager

Satellite Applications Catapult; Harwell; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Satellite Applications Catapult is seeking an Associate Project Manager to join the delivery team in a hybrid capacity. You will contribute to the Autonomous and Connected Earth Mission by managing tactical projects, aligning schedules, and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure on-time, high-quality outcomes.

The role involves delivering elements of complex projects, maintaining plans, budgets, and reporting, while developing towards a delivery career path within the organization.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience delivering services or projects for customer-focused outcomes.
• Ability to manage budgets, risks, issues, actions and performance improvements.
• Good written, verbal and presentation skills with high accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Deliver tactical projects and services within the Autonomous and Connected Earth Mission.
• Manage project schedules, budgets and expenditures.
• Organise stakeholder meetings and ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
• Monitor risks and issues and escalate as needed.
• Produce and share reports with stakeholders and funding bodies.

Skills

Budget management

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Project scheduling

Reporting

Tools

MS Project

SharePoint

MS Excel

Job description

Please note, we may look to interview before the advert close date due to the urgency of the role. The advert will close if a suitable candidate is found before the deadline.

The Associate Project Manager will be taking a hybrid position within the delivery team and be responsible for the successful management and delivery of tactical projects and services that sit within our Autonomous and Connected Earth Mission.

The Associate Project Manager may also be responsible for delivery alongside delivery team of specific elements of complex and transformative projects in a supporting role.

This role involves either delivery of specific tasks within the larger project or can be managing independently the following:

• Scoping and quoting our standard commercial services
• Managing service and project schedules, resources, budgets and expenditures
• Organising and leading stakeholder meetings
• Ensuring all work is delivered on time and to a high standard
• Managing risks and escalating where required

Associate Project Manager responsibilities:

• Producing the necessary reports as appropriate internally and to the funding body/customer.
• Successfully building relationships with colleagues across the Catapult and within your project teams and the wider stakeholder community
• Successfully managing and delivering tactical projects throughout the project lifecycle with an awareness of the impacts the project will achieve.
• Reviewing and checking project data to ensure issues are identified at the earliest opportunity.
• Contributing to the development and continuous improvements of the process and systems in use.
• Maintaining engagement with project stakeholders to provide useful and timely updates.
• Recoding and sharing accurate and understandable actions, notes, risks and issues.
• Successfully managing project finances: resource requests, purchase orders, invoices.
• Commercially aware and have a customer friendly manner disposition.
• Keen to development into a delivery career pathway and are keen to grow with us.
• Deliver tactical and value add projects and services across the autonomous and connected missions. As well as this there may be an opportunity to provide service or project management support for complex or transformative projects/programmes.

The responsibilities also include (but not limited to)

• Maintaining and monitoring project and service plans, project schedules, resources, budgets, and expenditures,
• Manage risks/opportunities and issues.
• Quotation of service delivery work
• Manage reporting throughout the Project Lifecycle.
• Organise, attend, and participate in stakeholder meetings. Accurately documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
• Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Deliver project milestones to agreed timescales.
• Manage project change and continuous improvement.
• Manage tasks as appropriate.
• Manage stakeholder engagement.
• Support Project Governance activities

Associate Project Manager Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience delivering services, projects or operational support for customer-focused outcomes.
• Ability to effectively manage budgets, risks, issues, actions and performance improvement activities.
• Good verbal, written and presentation skills with attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to engage with all project team members and be able identify the communication styles necessary to communicate effectively.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, Outlook, and MS Project and SharePoint.
• Ability to deliver to project deadlines and work on multiple deliverables simultaneously.
• Working knowledge of project management lifecycle and able to demonstrate ability to apply it in a project context.
• Able to demonstrate organisational skills and proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve a variety of project and process issues.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work at pace

About us & how we work:

We strive to create a high trust, high performance and inclusive environment that enables team members to bring their whole selves to work. This helps to create the foundations of an innovation culture. Our shared values are critical to this:

• We care- for our people, our partners, and our planet
• We connect- and engage with people and ideas
• We learn- and grow, as people and as an industry

Underpinning this is our belief in great teams. Our combined efforts will always deliver outcomes beyond that of any individual, providing we are honest through debate, experiment and reflect, and create shared resolutions in support of our purpose. Live these values, work to our principles, take ownership to deliver, and we are certain you will thrive with us.

This job description set outs the skills and experience we think are needed to be able to perform in this job. If you believe you can deliver in this role then we want to hear from you.

We offer a hybrid policy which is designed around collaboration, one 'anchor' day per week working with your direct team and another flexible day per week to be spent collaborating or working with other colleagues.

Important notice for applicants: We use tools to detect plagiarism and the use of AI or chatbots for applicant answers. If plagiarism, AI use (such as ChatGPT) or similar software are found to have been used in your application you will not be considered for this or future roles within the Satellite Applications Catapult.

At Satellite Applications Catapult, we're committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce. We welcome candidates from all corners of the globe, but due to legal and logistical considerations, we want to be transparent about the potential visa-related challenges that could arise. Our ability to offer sponsorship will depend on the level of interest for our roles and salary level. Please note, sponsorship can not be offered on this occasion. If you need any additional support during the application process, please do reach out and connect. We also invite you to share feedback via Applied.

Please note that we offer study support (at our discretion) and on the job training will be provided.