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The purpose of the programme or project specialist is to provide specialist hands-on support for programme and project managers. They play a proactive role in knowledge management to promote programme and project management methods and standards, and the implementation of best programme and project management practice.
Job title:
Project Plannner
Job Description:
The role is fundamental to programmes of work so we are looking for a confident and experienced Project planner that can inform, update and really drive collaboration across the projects/ programmes you will be involved in.

What you will be doing?

• Develop full scale project plans and templates
• Plan and schedule project timeline
• Support the Strategy, Delivery and Launch interactions to maintain on-time programme delivery
• Reporting to senior management actual performance and variance against the baseline plans and forecast outcomes
• Follow the change control process to identify risks or opportunities, update assumptions and dependencies logs, and ensure compliance against our internal procedures
• Reporting to the programme manager and supporting project managers with planning activities

What we are looking for?

• You’ll join us with extensive experience in project planning such as the successful scheduling or project and programme plans
• Strong working knowledge of planning software such as Microsoft Project (MSP)
• It is imperative that you have great communication skills alongside great project management skills. To measure success of the project plans it is important that you can be skilful in different styles of communication
• Extensive experienced Project Planner and Scheduler for large scale and complex projects and programmes
• Experience of using all industry-standard planning software
• Excellent communicator
• Excellent rapport building skills

What can we offer you?
We believe in offering flexible working solutions that suit your needs, whether that’s from home, from your nearest Capita office, or a blend of both but with an expectation to travel as and where business requires.

What we hope you will do next
Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

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Location:
Sheffield,
United Kingdom
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent