Project Support | Ref: PIP0008508

Location

Newcastle upon Tyne | United Kingdom

Job description

Project Support

Contract Term: 3 Months     

Contracting Authority: Department for Work and Pensions

Location: Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and Cardiff – Hybrid working

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

As a Project Support your main responsibilities will be: 

• Local contact and support with process implementation / link with Design; wider support on connect up with re-ops - escalating new areas of need and co-ordinating response
• Local management of access to contract e.g. ensuring approvals in place; flagging duplicate request types / opportunities for collaboration; liaising with central ops re procedures / problem solving
• Collation and coordination of internal recruitment needs so that these can be packaged for request
• Day-to-day support; provision of required connections / sight of other areas
• Local admin and programme support; connection with central ops; rota for meetings etc.
• Local link with SRA delivery of UCD; maintaining local visiibilty of co-ordination / collaboration opportunities
• Management of the tracker; development and management of backlog
• Admin support on maintaining a single view of resourcing
• Admin support on ensuring data protection procedures are followed

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Project support
• Stakeholder management
• Budget management and forecasting
• Working in an agile environment

If this Project Support role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with [email protected]

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on [email protected].

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

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