AMS PSR

On behalf of the Ministry of Defence, we are looking for a Project Support Officer - Inside IR35 for a 12 Month contract based Hybrid - Remote & 3 days p/week in Corsham.

Defence Digital provides digital and technology services to our Armed Forces, ensuring they can operate securely via radio, satellite, and the internet. Operating at scale, with an annual budget in excess of £2Bn and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, we're aiming to make our Armed Forces some of the most technologically advanced in the world. To do that we're growing our capabilities in disciplines like data science, automation and cyber security. The SATCOM SKYNET Team is responsible for the sustainment and development of the MOD's strategic, worldwide communications capability. The SATCOM Delivery Team is tasked with ensuring continuity of the required capability and its future development to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for defence communications and to defeat the growing array of sophisticated threats.

As a Project Support Officer, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Support the identification, documentation, monitoring, and escalation of project risks and issues, ensuring mitigation plans are developed and maintained in line with departmental strategy.
• Coordinate regular risk and issue reviews with key stakeholders and provide clear, consistent advice to project and programme managers.
• Assist the project team with a wide range of administrative and coordination tasks to ensure smooth project delivery and alignment with objectives.
• Help track project performance and ensure adherence to departmental policies on security, health and safety, equality, and business continuity.
• Apply best practice project management processes and support the operation of business management activities on behalf of the project manager.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks.  Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance. 

You'll have:

• Demonstrable Project Support experience - ideally within the public sector.
• Excellent Risk & Issue management experience - (RAIDO / ARM).
• IT Literacy - MS Office.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, 
• A relevant PM qualification - APM / Prince 2 / MoR etc. 
• Previous Defence experience - desirable. 

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

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the MOD 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. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant 

MoD guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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.