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Assistant Project Sponsor

Job details
Posting date: 19 December 2024
Salary: £34,233 per year
Additional salary information: National salary minimum: £34,233, London salary minimum: £38,289
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 06 January 2025
Location: London
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 382595/3

Summary

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Would you relish an opportunity to support a significant project that will help connect towns and support economic growth?

Do you enjoy a varied and interesting workload?

If so, we are looking for a highly motivated individual to join our team, and we would love to hear from you.

East West Rail (EWR) is a major railway delivery programme which looks to deliver a new railway connecting Oxford and Cambridge and intermediary settlements, including Bedford and Milton Keynes. It aims to deliver much-needed east-west transport connections for communities between Oxford and Cambridge, supporting economic growth through enabling housing and better connectivity to jobs within the Oxford-Cambridge region. This improved connectivity will enable people to travel more quickly across the region for work, for education and for leisure.

As Assistant Project Sponsor, you will play a key role in supporting an experienced team of Project Sponsors with the successful delivery of the programme. You will collaborate with the Project Sponsors to ensure there is a robust and reliable schedule for the project, lead on monitoring EWR Co’s progress against the plan and report on milestones, dependencies, risks and issues.

This varied and interesting role provides a fantastic opportunity to develop invaluable project delivery, planning and policy skills whilst working across a range of workloads.

If you would like to find out more about what it's like to work at DfT Rail, please click here.

Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Supporting the delivery of consultations and the necessary planning consents for the scheme, preparing briefings, co-ordinating responses, reporting against the plan and ensuring milestones are met.
  • Drafting briefings, correspondence, and reporting for the programme on behalf of the sponsor team, including interfacing with East West Rail.
  • Supporting EWR Co. to make sure lessons from the programme and other projects are implemented.
  • Working with the team to support external assurance activities, including an Infrastructure & Projects Authority (IPA) review in 2025.

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