Project Support Officer (FTC)
Richmond and Hyde Park, London (with travel to all parks)

About Us

The Royal Parks (TRP) is a charity created in March 2017. We manage over 5,000 acres of diverse parkland, rare habitats and historic buildings and monuments in eight Royal Parks across London. These are: Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Green Park, St James’s Park, The Regent's Park and Primrose Hill, Greenwich Park, Richmond Park and Bushy Park.

We also manage other important public spaces including Brompton Cemetery and Victoria Tower Gardens. Our eight Royal Parks and other public spaces are among the most visited attractions in the UK with 77 million visits every year.

We are now looking for a Project Support Officer to join our team for an 18 month contract, working 36 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of £29,001 - £35,076 per annum depending on experience
- 26 days' annual leave (pro rata) plus public holidays, increasing to 29 days after 3 years’ service
- Pension scheme (3% employee contribution; up to 10% employer contribution)
- Private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan
- Employee assistance programme and access to mental health first aiders
- Learning and development opportunities
- Cycle to work scheme
- Offices in a beautiful location

This is a fantastic role for an outstanding administrator or project support professional with financial admin experience to join our prestigious organisation.

Joining us in a vital capacity, you’ll be ensuring that the breathtaking spaces that we manage remain as beautiful as ever and continue to be focal points for Londoners and a host of tourists and visitors.

We’ll support you with an outstanding array of benefits, perks and support programmes that will mean your career can flourish and provide the professional challenge that will keep you motivated.

The Role

As a Project Support Officer, you will assist in the delivery of our Landscape Maintenance project in Richmond Park and our Diana, Princess of Wales’ Memorial Playground refurbishment.

Providing excellent administrative support, you will prepare and maintain project documentation, arrange meetings, prepare agendas, circulate papers and take minutes.

Assisting with the financial administration of these two projects, you will raise purchase orders, maintain accurate records of project expenses and prepare financial reports.

Additionally, you will:

- Receive onsite deliveries
- Support the preparation of presentations
- Act as a point of contact between work streams and for external consultants

About You

To be considered as a Project Support Officer, you will need:

- Experience of business administration or project support
- Experience of processing purchase orders, payments and support financial control
- The ability to support effective relationships
- The ability to generate and maintain project documentation
- Strong IT and Microsoft Office suite skills including Word, Excel, Project
- Basic project management skills
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate and disseminate information

Other organisations may call this role Project Support Assistant, Project Co-ordinator, Project Officer, Administrator, Administration Officer, Project Administrator, or Project Administration Officer.

The Royal Parks is strongly committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

So, if you are interested in this unique opportunity as a Project Support Officer, please apply via the button shown. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.

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