Responsibilities
* Project Planning: Assist in creating and updating project plans, schedules, budgets, and timelines
* Resource Coordination: Help co-ordinate project resources, including people, materials, and equipment
* Communication: Ensure effective communication between project team members, stakeholders, and our communities
* Progress Tracking: Monitor project progress and report on the status to stakeholders
* Administrative Support: Perform administrative tasks such as organising project documents, scheduling meetings, and preparing invoices
* Leadership: Develop leadership skills by supporting senior project managers and leading smaller project tasks
* Contract Management: Assist in managing contracts with external suppliers and contractors, ensuring compliance and effective collaboration
* Commercial Aspects: Understand and contribute to the commercial aspects of coastal projects, including budgeting, cost management, and financial reporting, use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance
* Manage and engage with stakeholders
* Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project
* Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility
* Adapt communications to different stakeholders
* Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives
* Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives
* Monitor and analyse project budgets
* Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid
* Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope
* Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement
* Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives
* Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions
* Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them
* Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes
* Use an organisation's continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance
* Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities
* Work with stakeholders to deliver the project
* Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems
* Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process
* Work within the approved project budget
* Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management
* Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work
* Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project
* Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects
* Manages resources through the project lifecycle
Qualifications
* GCSE in English (grade pass)
* GCSE in Maths (grade pass)
* Communication skills
* Organisation skills
* Problem solving skills
* Administrative skills
* Number skills
* Analytical skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Creative
* Initiative
* A keen interest in coastal management and environmental sustainability, construction management, civil engineering or project delivery
* Appreciation and interest in the natural and built environments
* Strong organisational and communication skills
* Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
* Basic understanding of project management principles is desirable but not essential
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