Project Support Officer Remote
Job description
Project Support Officer – Inside IR35
Contract Term: 4 months
Contracting Authority: DEFRA
Location: Hybrid Working (two days per week office based – various hubs)
In the Defra group, we deal with a vast range of issues that profoundly impact on people’s lives. We are responsible for England’s environment, our countryside and rural economy, the food and farming sectors and have lead responsibility for protection from a wide range of natural threats and hazards. We have developed a set of three strategic objectives covering our policy outcomes and corporate objectives. These objectives help us to deliver our ambitious vision to build our green and healthy future and provide a framework for all the important work we carry out.
Our objectives are:
· To pass on to the next generation a natural environment protected and enhanced for the future.
· To lead the world in food, farming, and fisheries with a sustainable model of food production.
· To be an outstanding organisation focused on making a difference, with world class delivery capability.
As a Project Support Officer your main responsibilities would be to:
- Provide high level administrative and project management support to a key project within Presence at the Border that will contribute to the wider Full Business Case for HM Treasury and onward delivery of those projects going forwards.
- Ability to work at pace in a highly complex and politically sensitive environment is essential.
- Diary / meetings management
- Accurate minutes of meetings
- Preparing slides for presentations
- Stakeholder engagement
- · Project plans - detailed and high level
You’ll have:
- Experience in Project Support
- Stakeholder engagement experience
- Providing admin support including minute taking experience
- Experience in Microsoft Office inc Word and Excel
If this Project Support Officer 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.
If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, PSR provides a ‘Guaranteed Interview’ scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of our PSR Sourcing team.
If you qualify, please notify us and we will be in touch.
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: Temporary contract, Full-time
Contract length: 4 months
Benefits:
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Remote
