Project Support Officer

Description

Are you a skilled Agile Project Support officer with Government experience

Role Overview:

You have the chance to join a Digital & Change Innovation team in Scottish central government and play a key role in ensuring consistent AGILE delivery approach is met.

The project Support officer will run a smooth lab and change function and work in a fast paced civil team alongside AGILE Project Manager, Product Owners and a wider range of team.

What You’ll Bring

• Management and administration of finance processes within lab. Maintain finance workbook – identify and correct errors. Present finance data in understandable format, along with analysis, and proposed opportunities for adjusting budget variance. Ensure accuracy and consistency of finance data across multiple formats, and coherency of message. Liaise with department finance team on lab finance data
• Tracking delivery progress within the lab, and using this understanding to draft progress tracking and reporting, ensuring quality of reporting and appropriateness for various stakeholders
• Provide support to lab leads to prepare pack for Executive Actions Boards (EAB) and ensure actions for EAB are progressed
• Maintain lab RAID log and escalate actions. Supporting effective risk and issue tracking, facilitating workshops, maintaining tracking
• Become familiar with the internal governance framework – LOAD – and be an ambassador for cascading and embedding the use of the LOAD framework in labs and the wider SCTS community. Be a point of contact in the lab for coaching on LOAD framework
• Facilitate the preparation and maintenance of the collateral for the Authority to Proceed Packs (ATPs) for each work stream as they move through the LOAD Framework

Desirable Experience:

• Central or Local Government experience is very Advantageous
• Disclosure Scotland or BPSS – although our client will be able to gain this quickly.

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ASA Recruitment is one of Scotland’s largest independent multi-sector recruitment agencies. We specialise in providing effective tailored solutions for permanent, contract and temporary employment requirements for our Clients and Candidates. We are members of the REC and are ISO certified.

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