Description of the job
Job Description
Position Highlights:
Role: PMO Project Coordinator
Locations: Offices including Glasgow, Aberdeen, Manchester, and London. The role can be based in any of the above locations.
Work Arrangement: Hybrid office working, ensuring flexibility.
Annual Leave: Enjoy 34 days of annual leave, with options to buy and sell more.
Learning & Development: Invest in your growth with guaranteed learning and development opportunities.
Health & Wellbeing: Benefit from private medical coverage, permanent health insurance, and more.
Financial Security: Secure your future with life insurance and critical illness cover.
Financial Benefits: 6.5% contributory pension.
Your role
Your responsibilities will include:
- Meetings
- Attending Sector all hands calls and contributing to presentations on PMO activities
- Attending Daily PMO Calls to provide updates on issues and progress on individual backlog items
- Attending Sector weekly project review calls
- Reporting
- Updating project packs with stats and info from different sources such as:
- Snap shot of overall financial progress for the week and commentary
- Snap shot of overall Utilisation for the week and commentary
- Snapshot of Financial KPIs
- Updating individual Project Financial Data
- Distributing to internal stakeholders
- Ensuring timesheets are completed in a timely manner
- Entering Weekly Timesheet detail from F&SCM
- Creating Monthly Utilisation Sheet and maintaining weekly
- Update PowerBI reports
- Project Coordination
- Create Teams Channel and folders
- Coordinate handovers, completion of checklists and follow up on open actions
- Coordinating Workshops / Meetings and General Administrative Tasks
- Coordinate project audits and completion of checklist and follow up on open actions
- Updating Project RoadMap weekly
- Purchase Order Chasing
- Documentation Management
- Creating PowerPoints to support workshops / meetings
- Report on slippage to programme and cross-programme deliverables, highlighted by Project Managers, weekly or ad-hoc.
- Ensure Project Managers are using established templates and standard practices.
- Record and maintain action logs on daily or weekly programme reviews.
- Chase action owners and escalate to Head of PMO as required.
- Provide support to the Project Managers and Account Managers on the production of client quotations and Change Requests during the project.
- Assist Project Managers with the tracking and reporting of project time and budget spent, highlighting deviations.
- Assist Project Managers with effective project conclusion, including handover to Support, and ensure lessons learned are recorded.
- Onboarding of new project managers, Heads of, Practice Directors.
- Actively contribute to continuous improvement, owning backlog items.
- Actively contribute to the PMO toolkit series, a set of training guides to support PMO processes.
- Manage queries received through the PMO Inbox in a timely manner.
- Manage queries received through sector teams channels in a timely manner.
- Maintaining project information on required systems.
- Building reports and training others on how to use them.
- Contributing to continuous improvement of processes.
- Undertake all mandatory company training within the timescales provided.