Regulatory Project Coordinator

The Gambling Commission; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension with 28.97%l

26 days holiday (pro rata)

Holiday purchase scheme

Flexible working

Ergonomic office near Birmingham New

Open, collaborative culture

Awarded by Sunday Times Best Places to

Right to work in UK

Job summary

The Gambling Commission is seeking a Project Support Officer to assist in delivering regulatory projects and programmes from our Birmingham hybrid office. You will run project management processes, coordinate business management actions and support a smooth project rhythm across teams.

You will be responsible for workload management, timely reporting, and ensuring milestones are tracked, with guidance from your line manager.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a project/programme environment.
• Experience of stakeholder management and engagement at all levels (internal and external).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills that are clear and concise.
• Proven ability to identify risks and issues and to escape quickly whilst proposing solutions.
• A solution-orientated mindset with the ability to work at pace and cope with ambiguity.
• Strong planning and organisation skills, with an ability to appropriately re-prioritise and change as required to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting the overall management and coordination of the project or programme.
• Manage project controls, reporting to the Project Lead about the project status.
• Develop project performance reports, assisting in the management and tracking of plans, risk and coordination of workstreams.
• Be responsible for ensuring that dependencies, risks, issues and milestones are accurately captured and escalated to senior colleagues so that they can be appropriately managed.
• Support the planning and implementation of governance and assurance activities by setting up systems to ensure they are planned and scheduled well in advance.
• Effectively help setup and coordinate reporting mechanisms, ensuring that teams are inputting to report to SRO and central performance.
• Make recommendations on resource requirements to the Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager (as appropriate).
• Support the wider team with learning and development to embed good delivery and practice.
• Follow the Gambling Commission’s portfolio and project delivery frameworks and contribute towards continuous improvement.

Skills

Project management experience

Stakeholder management

Written and verbal communication

Risk and issue identification

Solution-oriented mindset

Planning and organisation

Education

APM/PRINCE2/Agile qualification

Job description

The Gambling Commission is seeking a Project Support Officer to assist in delivering regulatory projects and programmes from our Birmingham hybrid office. You will run project management processes, coordinate business management actions and support a smooth project rhythm across teams.

You will be responsible for workload management, timely reporting, and ensuring milestones are tracked, with guidance from your line manager.