Assistant Project Manager

Assistant Project Manager - Inside IR35

Contract Term: 3 months (possible extension)

Contracting Authority: The Health & Safety Executive (HSE)

Location: Remote Working (flexibility required for occasional travel)

At the Health and Safety Executive, we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. Our mission is to prevent work-related death, injury, and ill health.

Our roots stretch back to 1833. The modern HSE is an independent regulator with a wide reach across many employment sectors. Using world leading science, we have helped protect millions of people from devasting injury and suffering through our diverse regulatory activities.

We concentrate effort on the most serious risks, targeting industries with the greatest hazards, and sectors with the worst risk management record. We hold people to account where we have to, and we are firm but fair when using our legal powers. We also provide support to businesses through free guidance and advice tailored to business needs. By giving them the confidence to manage risks sensibly, we boost productivity, support the economy, and contribute to a fairer society. We work hard to help maintain an effective regulatory framework, playing our part in providing proportionate and accountable legal requirements.

The world of work is always changing. We use science to understand these changes. And that understanding helps us all prepare for the workplaces of tomorrow...so Great Britain continues to be one of the safest and best places to work and do business.

Job Purpose:

As an Assistant Project Manager, you will work with HSE’s Information Technology Service and Technical Operations teams and Suppliers delivering IT refresh and infrastructure projects.

Day to day responsibility will include providing support with planning, contribute to the creation of work packages, resource planning, RAID management, weekly project reporting and Stakeholder communications.

As an Assistant Project Manager, your main responsibilities would be to:

• Contribute to the creation of work packages.
• Ensure work packages are managed throughout their lifecycle in accordance with our HSE Change framework.
• Monitor resources for the project, ensuring all project resources have been defined and secured.
• Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them, managing risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Monitor governance arrangements for projects, ensuring that assessments are scheduled at the appropriate point and that proportionate project documentation produced to a high quality.
• Manage stakeholder relationships at all levels to secure commitment and support both for the project and to promptly addressing issues and escalations.
• Manage regular and impactful reporting to all relevant stakeholders to communicate progress, barriers/constraints and lessons learnt, using formats and a level of detail appropriate to the audience.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Experience of delivering projects & products to time, cost and quality in an IT-enabled or transformational environment.
• Experience of PRINCE2 project management methodologies.
• Experience of leading and managing project/delivery teams.
• Managing projects using Project Online, Microsoft Project or similar tool.
• Experience of managing budgets and cost benefit cases.
• Agile or Prince 2 (Practitioner level) accredited or equivalent or equivalent qualification.
• Using Microsoft Office suite to a high standard and spearheading working smarter with modern technologies.

If this Assistant Project Manager role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.

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: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 3 months

Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Project Management: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Remote