Strategic Project Support & Coordination Officer

Group Support Services; England; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with matched contributions up 

Bonus scheme up to 2%

35 days holiday (including bank/public

Healthcare cashback plan

Wellbeing support

Gym membership

Life Assurance

Will writing services

Job summary

Group Support Services, the UK's leading Social Enterprise, is seeking a Project Support Officer (SOV) to provide proactive and confidential support across multiple workstreams. You will coordinate meetings, prepare agendas and papers, capture decisions, and keep deadlines on track.

You will prepare briefings, reports and presentations, maintain accurate project records, and use Microsoft 365 tools to help the team work effectively and deliver priorities at pace.

Qualifications

• Experience providing project support in a busy, complex and fast-paced environment.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple meetings, deadlines, actions and priorities across an evolving project or work plan.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including producing clear meeting notes or minutes, action trackers, briefings and professional correspondence.
• Confident stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work professionally and discreetly with senior leaders, colleagues, external partners and Government stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and digital capability, including proof-reading, formatting and using Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint effectively.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate meetings and workshops; prepare agendas and papers.
• Capture decisions, actions and track deadlines and approvals.
• Assist with briefs, reports and presentations; maintain accurate project records.
• Use Microsoft 365 tools to help the team work effectively and deliver priorities at pace.

Skills

Project support

Organisation & time management

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Tools

Microsoft 365 Suite (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

SharePoint

Job description

Group Support Services, the UK's leading Social Enterprise, is seeking a Project Support Officer (SOV) to provide proactive and confidential support across multiple workstreams. You will coordinate meetings, prepare agendas and papers, capture decisions, and keep deadlines on track.

You will prepare briefings, reports and presentations, maintain accurate project records, and use Microsoft 365 tools to help the team work effectively and deliver priorities at pace.