Assistant Project Manager
Join a team delivering major transport and infrastructure programmes, helping turn ambitious plans into projects that make a real difference to local communities. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to initiatives that support sustainable travel, improve connectivity and deliver long-term benefits.
Working alongside Project Managers, local authorities and senior stakeholders, you'll play a key role in coordinating programme activities, managing funding agreements and ensuring effective governance, reporting and financial oversight across multiple workstreams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate business cases, grant funding agreements and change requests, ensuring progress aligns with governance requirements and approval deadlines.
- Support programme reporting, including Department for Transport returns, DSO/IP/IB reports, milestone trackers and business case monitoring.
- Liaise with local authorities, Finance, Legal and senior stakeholders to progress approvals, resolve issues and strengthen collaborative relationships.
- Monitor project budgets, expenditure, purchase orders, invoices and committed spend, maintaining accurate financial and programme records.
- Organise meetings, track actions, support procurement activities and assist with governance processes, project assurance and programme administration.
Key Requirements:
- Experience in project coordination, project administration or assistant project management, ideally within transport, infrastructure or public sector programmes.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, trackers and competing priorities.
- Experience supporting business cases, funding agreements, governance approvals, change control or programme reporting.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to build effective relationships with local authorities and internal teams.
- Strong attention to detail and financial awareness, with the ability to maintain accurate records, monitor expenditure and produce clear reports.
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