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Governance and Assurance Project Support Officer (Synergy Programme)

Job details
Posting date: 15 July 2024
Salary: £35,711 to £36,545 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 29 July 2024
Location: Manchester
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 359321/4

Summary

Do you want to be part of an energetic, innovative team and bring your skills to one of the biggest changes to the administration of the Civil Service in decades? We are looking for people who are flexible, intuitive and are comfortable taking high levels of volume, speed, and complexity in their stride. A number of exciting new roles have come up in the newly formed Synergy Programme, a cross-departmental group formed in response to Government Business Service’s request for individual departments to group together in ‘clusters’ to drive efficiencies, increase buying power and improve the quality of shared service to our end users – our people.

The Synergy Programme is the largest of five departmental clusters, comprising the Ministry of Justice, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Home Office. The Department of Work and Pensions hosts the Synergy Programme. Your work will impact the procurement arrangements for the next 15 years, impacting over 50% of all Civil Servants – that is 230,000 people across the four departments and arm’s length bodies.

Success of the Programme is crucial as Civil Servants rely on shared services to provide business critical tools in human resources, finance, payroll, and procurement. It affects everything we do, from joining a department as a new starter, the way we claim for expenses, how we buy goods and services such as our laptops and canteen provisions, how we make a claim for our expenses, to the way we receive our pensions when we retire.

We are looking for applications from people who can demonstrate a passion for our core ambition - delivering a once in a generation, transformed service that Civil Servants will use as a result of the Synergy Programme.

Successful candidates can be expected to be involved in the following:

  • Ensure organisational tasks are carried out efficiently.
  • Provide secretariat duties including minute taking and project board support.
  • Collaborating with colleagues across PMO team to review and action PMO Inbox correspondence within stipulate timelines.
  • Plan and schedule board meetings ensuring appropriate methodologies are used which align to team and programme priorities.
  • Draft correspondence.
  • Manage compliance of the project with Departmental Security, Health & Safety, Equality & Diversity, Business Continuity and Business Planning.
  • Manage procurement of supplies and services related to project support within Delegated Financial Authority limits.
  • Manage professional relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, and function as lead point of contact for some external parties.
  • Ensure systems are in place to enable effective planning and scheduling.
  • Manage project controls, reporting to the Project Manager/Head of PMO about the project status. Develop project performance reports.
  • Potential to undertake line manager duties.
  • Some travel may be required.