Active Essex Assistant Project Manager

About the role

Active Essex Assistant Project Manager

Permanent, Full Time

£32,498.90 to £38,234 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Closing Date: 16th February 2025

Active Essex is looking to recruit an Assistant Project Manager within the Project Management team of Active Essex and support the Active Partnership side of the business, working on projects such as our Holiday Activity and Food Programme and our London Marathon Foundation funded “Find your Active” programme.

Working within a vibrant team, you will help manage reports and show the impact of projects aimed at those with the greatest need in Essex. We use agile project management with an innovative approach in all our programmes to ensure deadlines are being met and reports are being noticed. Proactive thinking, organisational skills and reliability are key to our success in supporting the team to hardwire health and wellbeing across Essex.

Within the Active Essex Assistant Project Manager role you will be support the Active Essex team across a range of activities to support the delivery of the objectives of a project, programme or portfolio.

The Assistant Project Manager enables the smooth running of the project by supporting the project manager through the operation of project management processes, and the co-ordination of business management actions and activities on their behalf.

Experienced in being planned and organised to ensure projects stay on track by monitoring progress and engaging with stakeholders, this role plays a key role in ensuring a structured approach to projects and maintaining quality of outputs.

Role Responsibilities

Responsible for ensuring robust systems are in place to enable effective planning and scheduling within a project, programme or portfolio. Responsible for managing project controls effectively to ensure all reports provide an accurate update on project status and highlight any specific concerns on progress.
Responsible for ensuring key operational activities are conducted efficiently in a timely manner whilst ensuring compliance and adherence to critical business processes, such as, Health and Safety.
Responsible for documenting resource requirements and plans for projects or programmes or portfolios. Make recommendations to actively manage workforce planning for Project Managers and enable decision making on the best resources for each project based on current capability.
Work collaboratively with a broad and diverse group of internal and external stakeholders including senior management. Including facilitating project meetings, workshops and reviews.
Responsible for effectively monitoring specific project spend and provide information required to support business case sign off to ensure both Project and Programme Managers are kept up to date on progress.
Drafting project governance documentation (e.g. business cases) for the Project or Programme Manager to approve.
Responsible for taking the lead on highlighting potential areas for risk and escalating as appropriate to the Project/Programme Manager, recommending ways to mitigate such risks.
Responsible for leading specific workstreams within projects to ensure delivery of agreed outcomes within time, cost and constraints. This will include design of workstream and delivery approach.
Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Educated to A level or equivalent by extensive experience
Knowledge of IT System MS office and knowledge of CRM systems would be desirable
Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area. For example AMP or Prince 2 foundation
Experience and evidence of involvement in project management
Experience of working with a broad range of individuals at different levels within the organisation and engaging with them, finding ways to overcome obstacles.
Keen to engage with others and learn from them
Experience of working within a political environment with knowledge of a public sector setting and involvement in a large, complex environment
Good planning and organising skills, determination to meet deadlines
Curious manner, innovative approach in looking for alternative solutions

Why Essex? Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest – Basildon and Harlow – are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us here.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

What you should do next

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please click apply.

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