Project co-ordinator

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Project Coordinator

Circa £30,000 + benefits

Permanent

35 hours per week (with flexible working options)

Wimbledon (hybrid working)

Why join the Organisation Assessment team at the CIPD?

We are a small team working in the Standards and Professional Development Directorate. The majority of our work is running a range of projects for client organisations, helping them to adopt our Profession Map standards, or assessing their HR teams against them. In the last few years we’ve helped the NHS and the Civil Service develop a version of our Profession Map, and we’ve run over 30 different assessments projects with clients in the UK and internationally. We also run the CPD audit for members, and ensure the Profession Map and Code of Conduct are up to date.

You'll be part of a small team that has a big impact on the clients we work with!

What You’ll Be Doing

* Providing project support for all our client projects
* Creating and manage project plans where required
* Sourcing, co-ordinating and liaising with suppliers, consultants, internal team members to ensure projects can run to time and budget
* Organising and scheduling client workshops, assessments and meetings, and supporting the running them where needed
* Being a point of contact for assessment candidates
* Creating, managing and maintaining data sets on Power BI, and using them to create visuals which tell a story about client data
* Developing presentations to use with our clients
* Supporting the financial side of projects by raising POs, issuing schedules of work, tracking invoices and cross-charging
* Acting as champion for cross-CIPD work, such as our risk log, being our brand and GDPR champion, and ensuring our team are up to date on any changes

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

* Logical, detailed and organised approach to work which is client-focused
* Attention to detail
* Excellent interpersonal skills, including experience of working with a wide group of internal stakeholders and external clients
* Ability to work with a number of stakeholders at the same time
* Good communication skills – written and oral
* Excellent written English, including spelling and grammar
* Experience of managing customer-facing projects
* Experience of working with Power BI (or similar tools) to analyse and visually display data (or the skill to learn and use it)
* Confident in using technology such as Teams and online tools like Miro
* Excellent time management skills and the ability to effectively prioritise tasks to ensure timely completion of projects and efficient use of resources
* Able and willing to operate flexibly, and switch priorities as required in the team

About Us

We’ve been championing better work and working lives for over 100 years. We help organisations thrive by focusing on their people, supporting our economies and societies. We’re the professional body for HR, L&D, OD and all people professionals – experts in people, work and change. With over 160,000 members globally – and a growing community using our research, insights and learning – we give trusted advice and offer independent thought leadership. And we are a leading voice in the call for good work that creates value for everyone.

There has never been a more interesting or important time to join us. We offer an inclusive and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days’ holiday with an option to buy and sell days, £125 personal development allowance, access to an award winning pension scheme and a commitment to wellbeing including a cashback health scheme.

If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click APPLY.

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We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion and equality of outcomes in employment through recognising of how differences of age, disability, gender, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, ethnicity, colour, religion, or belief and other protected (by equalities law) and personal characteristics can advantage or disadvantage a person.

Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible.