Project Officer
- Recruiter
- Larbey Evans Ltd
- Location
- E14 9SH, London (Greater)
- Salary
- Up to £80,000 + Benefits
- Posted
- 31 Dec 2021
- Closes
- 18 Jan 2022
- Job Title
- Administration
- Practice Area
- Asset Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Finance / M&A
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client is a prestigious London law firm – they are now looking to recruit a Project Officer to join on an initial 6-month fixed term contract.
Your role will be to deliver every project on time within budget and scope. You will have a background in business skills, management, budgeting and analysis.
Their hours are 9.30am – 5.30pm. The salary on offer is up to £80,000 + Benefits. This role is a 6-month FTC. You will be expected to be in their offices 2 or 3 days a week (flexibility where required).
This is a great Project Officer opportunity to join one of the most prestigious law firms in London!
Your responsibilities as a Project Officer will include:
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
- Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Ensure resource availability and allocation
- Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
- Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
- Report and escalate to management as needed
- Manage the relationships with all stakeholders
- Perform risk management
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Prepare reports for senior management
Requirements as a Project Officer include:
- Proven experience as a Project Manager/Project Officer
- Ideally you will have experience of working within a law firm
- Thorough understanding of project management techniques and methods
- Outstanding leadership and management skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to convey technical information to non-technical staff
- Proven track record of delivering multimillion pound programmes to time, cost and quality controls
- Prince II / PMQ / PMP certification essential
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office; working knowledge of program/project management software (Basecamp, MS Project etc.)