Assistant Project Manager Bedford, England
Job description
We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager whose focus will be to manage the relationship between the complex infrastructure programme (CIP) and the projects by co-ordinating across the various internal communication functions and keeping our projects on board with key events, wellbeing and wider transformation activities.
Your role would be to contribute to the planning and delivery of projects, carrying out assigned project work to ensure the achievement of project objectives within agreed time, quality, and cost thresholds; maintaining effective governance, quality assurance, health and safety, technical and specialist standards.
What you’ll be leading on
- Contribute to the creation of high-quality baseline management products, produce timely and accurate reports, and create and maintain specified records.
- Delivering the programme's internal communications plan, ensuring it's fit for purpose and aligns with our projects.
- Plan and define project steps or schedules, consistent with defined review milestones and priorities, to contribute to the design of the overall project plan including organising and delivering whole Programme events and ad hoc engagement activities.
- Identification, implementation and monitoring of day-to-day support for the CIP internal communications. Establishing robust processes to communicate information and change across the programme/projects and to capture project/programme successes.
To be successful you’ll need
- Strong collaborator, to gain the involvement and engagement of a wide range of stakeholders.
- High resilience, to deal constructively with conflicting priorities and setbacks.
- Excellent communicator, to clarify and ensure understanding of project strategies and solutions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, to develop, analyse and provide commentary on programme plans and performance.
- The ability to develop a range of materials, using different Microsoft applications, to aid communication and understanding for internal stakeholder management
- High integrity, to build trust with all stakeholders
A bit about us
The Complex Infrastructure Programme (CIP) are responsible for delivering some of the country’s largest and most complex infrastructure projects, which attract a vast amount of Government and public interest. Our programme currently comprises of the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet project and the A303 Stonehenge scheme. In the last year we successfully completed the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon scheme, leaving us now with closing out the project ready to hand over to our colleagues in Operations. Whilst we continue to deliver these projects, we also look after projects which are currently in the pipeline and under evaluation for the next Road Investment Period. Not forgetting the Property and Compensation team which work across the whole of the Major Projects division.
One of the biggest challenges we face as a fast-paced, high-pressured Programme is keeping the projects connected to the organisation and aligned with National Highway's overall objectives.
To request a copy of the role profile, please contact [email protected] quoting reference number #3719
