Planning Assistant: Derby

Main Duties / Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and document appropriate plans and controls for the project/programme in line with the departments Change Lifecycle/Agile delivery methodology
• Ensuring the appropriate governance disciplines are observed
• Reviewing project and supplier documentation and plans to highlight any issues that may compromise delivery
• Facilitating resolution of project issues and mitigation of project risks
• Maintaining project documentation
• Making a constructive contribution to project management processes
• Making effective use of the departments Change Lifecycle
• MS Project Agile standard processes and other required standards
• Produce project documentation eg plans
• Manage dependencies, assumptions and other controls
• Arrange, prepare materials for, facilitate, chair and document meetings
• Monitor and report on progress
• Define project resources including staff; contractors
• Assure plans, project controls and progress reports
• Manage QA processes
• Demonstrate learnings achieved on the project

Skills, Knowledge Experience

• Track record of successful delivery in an equivalent role with equivalent level of responsibility in complex Projects
• Knowledge of industry standard methods and tools eg MS Project
• MS Office, esp EXCEL required as lots of spreadsheet work
• Experience of working successfully with staff and representatives from business teams to deliver business change