Project Associate

Undisclosed Company; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis is seeking a Project Associate to join the Basingstoke team for a six‑month assignment. The day rate is £450‑£475 Inside IR35.

You will support the Project Manager with plans, schedules and milestones, coordinate activities, produce dashboards and status updates, and assist with RAID, change control, governance, and financial tracking. DV clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Experience across ICT infrastructure, application development, testing and release.
• Familiar with Prince2, Agile or SAFe methodologies.
• Experience managing project requirements with a Project Board or assurance role.
• Experience delivering projects with customer/business line acceptance and handover.
• Ability to gather status reports and address issues across teams.
• Experience integrating financial data and tracking project costs.

Responsibilities

• Support the Project Manager in daily project management.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules and milestones.
• Coordinate activities and track actions.
• Deliver outputs within time, cost, and quality constraints.
• Prepare regular project reports and dashboards.
• Support RAID management and governance.
• Assist with change control and governance.
• Support audit/assurance with traceable evidence.
• Liaise with delivery teams, suppliers and stakeholders.
• Assist with project financial tracking and forecasting.
• Support contract and supplier administration.
• Ensure financial data reflected in project systems.

Skills

Technical oversight

Project lifecycle

Prince2

Agile

SAFe

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Financial tracking

Governance

Job description

Role: Project Associate

Location: Basingstoke

Day rate: £450 - £475 Inside IR35

Duration: 6 Months

Active DV clearance required due to project restrictions

Role description:

• Support the Project Manager in the day‑to‑day management of assigned projects or workstreams.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, and milestones.
• Coordinate project activities, ensuring actions are tracked and completed on time.
• Support delivery of agreed outputs within time, cost, and quality constraints.
• Prepare and update regular project reports, dashboards, and status updates.
• Support RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) management, ensuring logs are accurate and up to date.
• Assist with change control activities, ensuring changes are recorded, assessed, and approved in line with governance processes.
• Support audit and assurance activities by ensuring evidence and artefacts are complete and traceable
• Liaise with delivery teams, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to support timely information flow.
• Assist with project financial tracking, including cost reporting and forecasting
• Support contract and supplier administration activities where applicable.
• Ensure financial data is accurately reflected in project systems and reports

Key skills and experience:

• Technical oversight: Provide technical guidance and ensure the project aligns with technical requirements, often collaborating with tech leads and IT departments.
• Delivered various types of projects through the full project lifecycle. Specifically, ICT infrastructure, application development, test and release
• Familiar with different methodologies. I.e. Prince2, Agile, Safe.
• Managed the agreement process of the project requirements and objectives with the Project Board or appointed project assurance role.
• Managed the delivery of projects in partnership with the customer and business line to ensure acceptance, closedown, and handover to service.
• Operated within defined working practices, ensuring compliance with local project management policy, procedure, and methodology where this is in place.
• Gathered status reports of team members across their project and address issues as appropriate.
• Established reporting project Key Performance Indicators to the Senior Project Manager or Project Board through Highlight Reports and stage assessments.
• Managed project risks and produces an effective plan and risk assessment so that timescales and project costs are understood and underwritten by all by the parties.
• Ensured that formal review procedures are used.
• Managed risks associated with the deliverables of the project.
• Integrated financial data for multiple projects.
• Ensured that the impact on the Business Line Profit & Loss due to project activities within the scope of the project is clearly visible and that all contingency usage is signed-off by the appropriate governance authority e.g. Project Board
• Accountable for tracking the project costs and supporting Business Units in meeting payment milestones.
• Ensured that the milestone achievements are signed by the customer and relevant invoices are raised.