Project Support Officer

at  University College London

ABOUT US

The UCL Estate comprises over 240 buildings, more than 6.5 million square feet of academic accommodation and around 4500 owned student bedrooms. The location, scale, variety and complexity of the estate are unparalleled in the sector, including world-leading research, teaching, offices and student accommodation within our Bloomsbury and UCL East campus, at Stratford.
Together, Campus Experience and Infrastructure and Estates Development (CE&I and ED) is responsible for managing all aspects of the UCL Estate from the strategic to the operational, including property asset management, master-planning, capital projects and seamless end to end operational support. The function comprises approximately. 350 FM and property professionals, project managers and customer facing operational colleagues.
This key activity supports the student and campus experience for our 46,000 students and 13,000 staff across our sites. From providing student accommodation, security and catering, to delivering an estates masterplan and all forms of capital projects in a sustainable manner. We are a collective of technical professionals who work together to deliver a resilient, functional, and vibrant estate.

We are recruiting a full-time permanent Project Support Officer (hybrid working) to support project management professionals in UCL Estates to ensure the successful delivery of the Capital Programme, Minor Works and Strategic Maintenance Programme (SMP) and the wider Estates strategic initiatives.
The PSO will facilitate project governance processes to ensure projects and programmes are properly managed to meet defined governance arrangements including approvals/stage-gate processes throughout the project lifecycle, customer and other stakeholder engagement, co-ordination across teams etc. The role is not intended to remove responsibility for best practice project management from those professionals – but rather to support and facilitate.
The Project Support Officer (PSO) will work both independently and in coordination with other project/programme management roles..
The PSO will be assigned to support and enhance the management of both construction and non-construction projects and programmes. At any one time the individual would be providing support to a variety of different projects and/or programmes.