Hybrid Project Support Specialist - Transport Programs

Sue Ross Recruitment Ltd; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Sue Ross Recruitment are working on behalf of a valued client to recruit a Project Support Officer for a six-month temporary assignment. This is an excellent opportunity to join a busy project team and play a key role in supporting the successful delivery of large-scale transport and infrastructure programmes.

The successful candidate will provide a combination of project, administrative, financial and stakeholder support, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and effectively.

Qualifications

• GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and Maths.
• Experience in a project support, project administration or business support role.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Experience of managing and prioritising a varied workload.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail and a methodical approach to work.
• The ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• A professional, adaptable and proactive approach.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and technical support to project teams.
• Organise meetings, prepare agendas, take minutes and monitor follow-up actions.
• Assist with the preparation of reports through data collection, extraction and analysis from various sources.
• Maintain project documentation including work programmes, risk registers and issue logs.
• Update and manage project information within project management systems and databases.
• Support procurement activities and liaise with external suppliers where required.
• Assist with project financial administration, including raising purchase orders, processing invoices and recording project costs.
• Support stakeholder engagement, consultation and communications activities.
• Monitor project progress and help ensure deadlines and milestones are achieved.
• Provide general support across the wider project team as required.

Skills

MS Office

Communication skills

Time management

Organisational skills

Education

GCSEs including English and Maths

Job description

Sue Ross Recruitment are working on behalf of a valued client to recruit a Project Support Officer for a six-month temporary assignment. This is an excellent opportunity to join a busy project team and play a key role in supporting the successful delivery of large-scale transport and infrastructure programmes.

The successful candidate will provide a combination of project, administrative, financial and stakeholder support, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and effectively.