DV – Project Associate

Responsibilities

• Support the Project Manager in the day‑to‑day management of assigned projects or workstreams.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, and milestones.
• Coordinate project activities, ensuring actions are tracked and completed on time.
• Support delivery of agreed outputs within time, cost, and quality constraints.
• Prepare and update regular project reports, dashboards, and status updates.
• Support RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) management, ensuring logs are accurate and up to date.
• Assist with change control activities, ensuring changes are recorded, assessed, and approved in line with governance processes.
• Support audit and assurance activities by ensuring evidence and artefacts are complete and traceable.
• Liaise with delivery teams, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to support timely information flow.
• Assist with project financial tracking, including cost reporting and forecasting.
• Support contract and supplier administration activities where applicable.
• Ensure financial data is accurately reflected in project systems and reports.

Key Skills and Experience

• Provide technical guidance and ensure the project aligns with technical requirements, collaborating with tech leads and IT departments.
• Have delivered various types of projects through the full project lifecycle, including ICT infrastructure, application development, and test and release.
• Be familiar with different methodologies such as Prince2, Agile, and SAFe.
• Manage the agreement process of the project requirements and objectives with the Project Board or appointed project assurance role.
• Manage the delivery of projects in partnership with the customer and business line to ensure acceptance, closedown, and handover to service.
• Operate within defined working practices, ensuring compliance with local project management policy, procedure, and methodology where applicable.
• Gather status reports of team members across their projects and address issues as appropriate.
• Establish reporting project Key Performance Indicators to the Senior Project Manager or Project Board through Highlight Reports and stage assessments.
• Manage project risks and produce an effective plan and risk assessment so that timescales and project costs are understood and underwritten by all parties.
• Ensure that formal review procedures are used.
• Manage risks associated with the deliverables of the project.
• Integrate financial data for multiple projects.
• Ensure that the impact on the Business Line Profit & Loss due to project activities within the scope of the project is clearly visible and that all contingency usage is signed‑off by the appropriate governance authority e.g. Project Board.
• Be accountable for tracking the project costs and supporting Business Units in meeting payment milestones.
• Ensure that milestone achievements are signed by the customer and relevant invoices are raised.

Security Clearance

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high‑level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment, which can take a minimum of 18 weeks.

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