RQ1525980 – Support Officer

Carrington Blake Recruitment; Chichester, London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading team as a Project Support Officer in Chichester, where you'll support various projects and initiatives that impact the community. This role offers a dynamic work environment, requiring excellent time management and adaptability. You'll coordinate activities, assist in event planning, and support communications, making a real difference in economic growth initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in flexible and adaptable work across various projects.
• Excellent time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery across several projects and initiatives.
• Coordinate activities in line with the team business plan.
• Assist in the development and staging of events.

Skills

Time Management

Flexibility

Adaptability

Communication

Job description

• 1 day in the office
• £19.23 per hour

The Support Officer role in our team is more like an office administrator role, they will be required to work on a variety of tasks across various projects and working with different team members. As such, we are looking for someone who has experience/comfortable being quite flexible and adaptable when working on various different projects. Has excellent time management and understands how to prioritise their workload and re-prioritise if new urgent requests come in. The role will not work on just one project but will help support the delivery across several different projects, sometimes helping to set up meetings, take minutes for meetings, progress actions from the meetings and provide regular communication to stakeholders.

Working pattern: Full time Working arrangement: Office base is County Hall, Chichester but the team does hybrid working. One day a week in Chichester and the rest of the week working remotely.

Length of assignment: Until 31 March 2026, with possibility of extension

Job Description :

An exciting opportunity to join West Sussex County Council’s Economic Growth Team. The team delivers a broad range of evidence-led economic initiatives and programmes in response to the needs and opportunities of the West Sussex economy. We are looking for a Project Support Officer to work at the heart of the team supporting with a range of projects and initiatives.

The Project Support Officer will play an important role in supporting the delivery of a range of new projects, having the opportunity to help shape the approach. This is a great opportunity to work in a collaborative team on projects that make a difference in our communities.

The role holder will coordinate activities in line with the team business plan, as well as plan and assist in the development and staging of a variety of events, including meetings, seminars, briefings etc.

They will also support communications and marketing activities, including through social media. There is a regular and intrinsic requirement to communicate in English with members of the public.

If you think this job role is for you, please send your CV to [e-mail]