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Programme Coordinator

Job Title: Programme Coordinator
Contract Type: Contract
Location: Berkshire, England
Industry:
Salary: Negotiable
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 Months
REF: AT - PC_1528216577
Contact Name: Adam Thompson
Contact Email: Adam.Thompson@projectpeople.com
Job Published: almost 6 years ago

Job Description

Programme Coordinator

Programme Coordinator required for a leading Mobile brand in Berkshire.

The role of the Programme Coordinator will work across multiple business functions and multiple projects to support the successful planning, reporting, communication and delivery of the programme.

6 month contract

To start ASAP

Competitive day rate attached

Responsibilities

  • Support the Programme Manager ensuring that programme teams are accurately meeting milestones, reporting, process and governance for their projects and programmes
  • Ensure that changes to project plans are reflected in the right documents and communicated to the correct teams
  • Ensure that reporting, dashboards and communication at a programme level are accurate and timely
  • Support the Transformation Programme Manager in managing programme-level risks and issues by ensuring all risks and issues are up-to-date
  • Support the development and introduction of tools, processes and governance across the portfolio that will help to improve the delivery of programmes and projects, and act as a champion within the team for any major changes
  • Manage team documentation and workspaces

Required Skills

  • Extensive experience as a Project/Programme coordinator, PMO analyst or in a Project support role within a fast-paced medium to large technology company
  • Experience of working with all levels of stakeholders cross functionally
  • Experience of working in confidential and commercially sensitive environments
  • Track record of building effective relationships both within teams and across an organisation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong analytical and reporting skills, in particular data manipulation, data visualisation and dash boarding of risks/issue and project timelines
  • A working knowledge of project methodologies such as Agile
  • Advanced knowledge of MS Project, Excel, and Word
  • Knowledge of working with Office 365 Planner
  • Customer-focused flexible approach
  • Comfortable with complexity and multiple layers of inter dependencies
  • Curious, fast learner
  • Self-starter, able to work autonomously

Desired Skills (not essential)

  • Experience of working with People teams / HR or Projects/Programmes introducing new technology
  • Formal introductory Project Management qualification (e.g. Agile)
  • Formal project support qualification (e.g. P3O Foundation/Practitioner)
  • Telecoms industry experience
  • Degree educated

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