IDEALLY BASED IN MANCHESTER OR LEEDS

This is an exciting opportunity for a Project Assistant with a passion for project management to join a global leading consultancy firm.
Joining our growing internal project management team you’ll be based within one of our UK offices and with flexible working will also have the ability to work from home. With our support, you’ll develop a wide range of valuable skills and knowledge. You’ll play an active role in covering clients’ needs, varying across an industry leading range of clients in both the public and private sector. It’s vital that you’re keen to learn and grow in all of the areas and sectors we work in. We place great emphasis on developing our people and the opportunity to progress. Due to recent successes, we are looking to grow our team.

YOUR ROLE

From day one, you’ll get stuck into a variety of projects. We’ll expect you to assist our project teams with undertaking support duties to ensure the successful delivery of projects on time and to budget. Working with our technical colleagues across various disciplines who are experts in their field, you’ll discover how to achieve project revenue targets and deliver projects to the highest quality. Crucially, you’ll learn to exceed clients’ highest expectations. We will assist you in working towards achieving your Association for Project Management qualifications to develop your project management career.

Typical duties would include:

• Resource management
• Invoicing and project reviews
• Tracking new opportunities
• Maintaining records
• Mailbox management
• Reviewing and formatting reports

You’ll bring to the role a keen interest in project management and a desire to learn and develop. You’ll also have great communication skills and a collaborative approach to work. In return, we’ll give you all the opportunities and support you need to turn your fascination and determination into important skills, rewarding achievements, recognised qualifications and, of course, a successful career. You should ideally have:-

• Great communication skills,
• Effective team working abilities,
• Proactive to new skills and learning,
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft applications such as Word and Excel
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