Project Support Officer
| Posting date: | 03 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,434 to £43,174 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London £38,856 - £43,174; National £35,434 - £39,044 + benefits. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 September 2025 |
| Location: | SW1A 2BQ |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 424989/2 |
Summary
- The UEFA European Championships 2028 - ensuring the Government delivers on its commitments to ensure that this major event is staged successfully, maximising economic growth and benefiting local communities. This programme is part of the Government Major Projects Portfolio.
- The future pipeline of major sporting events - driving forward the Government's work, with partners, to secure, and successfully host, the world’s biggest and best sporting events, including the women’s Rugby World Cup 2025
- Grassroots facilities delivery - overseeing the delivery of hundreds of millions into multi-sport grassroots facilities across the UK, as part of the EURO 2028 impact programme and to tackle inactivity, support the Health mission and build cohesive communities through providing access to high quality shared sporting spaces.
The directorate is evolving out of a unit within the existing Sport and Gambling Directorate, with which it will need to continue working seamlessly.
The team prioritises a positive workplace culture, where colleagues are committed to excellence in delivery, ongoing personal development, a supportive working environment, and operating seamlessly with colleagues and stakeholders based across the UK, and beyond.
Both roles will sit in the Grassroots Facilities Investment Programme Management Office (PMO) that is responsible for DCMS’s direct capital investment into grassroots sports facilities. The postholder will:
- Be responsible for the effective grant management and project governance for the Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities programme, and future facilities funding, supporting delivery of high-quality, inclusive facilities to help to get more people active
- Work closely with the programme delivery partners i.e. Sport England, the Football Foundation and Football Associations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to deliver the investment across the UK, monitoring effective awards of grants
- Work with colleagues in PMO on other key deliverables such as analysing project data, risk management, reporting, assurance and change control as appropriate
- Support benefits management activities to deliver the programmes intended benefits and outcomes
- Contribute to briefings, Parliamentary Questions and correspondence on behalf of the grassroots teams
You will work alongside experienced project and policy professionals in a fast paced environment and have the opportunity to develop your skills and experience in grant and project management and the civil service more generally.
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