Project Coordinator Remote
Job description
Project Coordinator – Inside IR35
Contract Term: 6 Months
Contracting Authority: DCMS
Location: Hybrid – Remote & 1/2 days p/w in London, Manchester or Darlington.
Working in the Future Networks Programmes (FNP) Team, you will be directly supporting the planning and implementing of research and innovation projects in digital infrastructure. These include the £250 million Open Networks Research and Development Fund; and £40 million to establish 5G Innovation Regions across the UK, to encourage 5G take-up in the public sector and industry. Our future prosperity as a country depends on world-class digital infrastructure - we help make this happen.
You’ll work in a friendly, multidisciplinary team (project delivery profession; finance, commercial and technical (telecoms) specialists; subsidy control). We work closely with policy colleagues and a variety of external organisations.
As a Project Coordinator your main responsibilities will be:
· Oversight of a small portfolio of projects, at any stage of the ‘lifecycle’.
· Ensuring that project aims, scope, time, costs and intended benefits are clearly defined in grant funding agreements, and completion of our due diligence as project sponsor.
· Monitoring & supporting delivery, as sponsor, assessing and reporting on status.
· Analysing a range of information sources - identifying & tackling risks, problems and changes – escalating accordingly.
· Capturing & verifying the scope and benefits achieved, reports for dissemination and other final business.
· Providing information and advice to stakeholders and government decision-makers.
· Engaging extensively with project stakeholders and government colleagues.
· Producing a range of written communications and maintain project documentation – e.g. stakeholder correspondence; status reports; advice for decision-makers; meeting actions; briefings.
Essential Skills:
· Demonstrable Project Coordination experience - including project set-up, status monitoring & risk management.
· Strong stakeholder management experience, including experience of working successfully with suppliers, representatives from business teams & delivery.
· Strong self-starter
· Expert communication skills
· Experience of implementation of large grant programmes, publicly-funded projects or collaborative research and innovation – desirable.
· Relevant subject knowledge, for example: digital infrastructure or research and innovation policy or programmes; the telecommunications industry – desirable.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
In applying for this role you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 6 months
Benefits:
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Project Coordination: 1 year (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Willingness to travel:
- 25% (required)
Work Location: Remote
Reference ID: PSR0036309
