Project Administrator
The Role
Do you have what it takes to be a core member of our IT Delivery Assurance team?
We are looking for someone to play a pivotal role within the busy IT Delivery Assurance team; providing support to the Head of Delivery Assurance, all team members and the portfolio of projects they manage.
Are you keen to learn from others as a member of an experienced project management office?
In addition to administrative duties, the role will provide you with many opportunities to learn and develop your skills across a range of project management disciplines. You will be working alongside the experienced Project Managers, who are delivering our projects, and also supporting our Delivery Lead and PMO Analyst in maintaining and updating our project office records.
Main Responsibilities
- Keep financial data up to date and ensure it is accurate.
- Maintain project portfolio logs; produce weekly and monthly progress reports
- Provide general administrative support to the project managers e.g. booking meetings and taking minutes
- Process project and stage gate approval documents for the PMO
- Manage the archiving of all project artefacts
Share our knowledge
Here at London Business School, we generate research and ideas that have a real, lasting influence on people, businesses and markets around the world. To do that, we have to make sure we have the talent, the tools and the infrastructure to share our thinking globally. In this role, you will contribute to a team whose greater purpose is to develop solutions and improvements to complex issues that ensure high quality and better practice in all of our processes and systems
Who we are looking for
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Further education or equivalent qualification– potentially with a vocational qualification in a project management related subject
- Good communication skills and the ability to work with people at all levels
- Sound working knowledge of Microsoft Office products with a high proficiency in MS Excel.
- May also be able to use MS Visio and MS Project although this is not essential
- Prior experience in a PMO or project environment with an understanding of project structures and budgeting would be advantageous but not essential
- Good attention to detail
- Good time management skills with the ability to organise and prioritise
- Good team working skills and the ability to work collaboratively
Be part of an international network
We are a global institution with our staff representing 55 nationalities, 94% of students and 86% faculty being international. We bring together a variety of widespread perspectives that help us have a profound impact on the way the world does business. Based in London’s Regent’s Park, this is an opportunity to work in one of the world’s most important financial, entrepreneurial and cultural centres.
Why London Business School
Benefits We Offer
As an employee at London Business School you will enjoy a generous holiday entitlement, on site swimming pool and gym, automatic enrolment to a quality defined contribution workplace pension scheme and season ticket loan facility. There is also a wide range of professional development opportunities to support your career path.
What you can expect from us
Our vision is to have a profound impact on the way the world does business. This can only be achieved through our people; with 90% of our staff saying they are proud to work here and being consistently ranked among the best in the world for our MBA, global Executive MBA and Masters in Finance programmes you will have an opportunity to be part of this journey.
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