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Project Officer

Job details
Posting date: 20 June 2024
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 20 July 2024
Location: Edinburgh, EH12 1HQ
Company: NatWest Group
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: R-00235943

Summary

Join us as a Project Officer

  • We’ll look to you to support the project governance and control, including tracking the performance and progress of projects, project financial control and adoption
  • You’ll support key processes within Finance over the course of the year including budget, rolling forecast, scenarios and regulatory stress tests
  • This is an opportunity to play a proactive role in the promotion of programme and project management methods and standards

What you'll do

As a Project Officer, you’ll be facilitating the creation and update of project plans. You’ll be driving quality assurance activities for various project deliverables, maintaining project repositories, and ensuring compliance to established processes.

You’ll also be implementing guidelines, procedures and templates to collect and maintain consistent data, and providing hands-on delivery support to a programme or project.

You’ll also be:

  • Supporting the implementation of agreed regular progress reporting mechanisms for all projects and monitoring the routine progress of projects, and assisting in the preparation of the programme status or project highlight reports
  • Establishing and maintaining an information management system, managing both electronic and hard-copy configuration libraries
  • Managing risks and issues across key Finance processes
  • Providing basic training in configuration management techniques
  • Providing secretariat activities, including meeting minutes, inputting papers to the meetings and communications to stakeholders

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need experience in a project support role, paired with knowledge of project types and the project lifecycle.

You’ll also demonstrate:

  • Expertise in tools such as MS Office, Planview, Oracle and SharePoint
  • Knowledge of organisational processes and procedures, including risk frameworks
  • Knowledge of configuration management
  • Experience of working with recognised project or programme management tools and techniques