Seeking support officer to help deliver Camden's West End Project

You’ll play a critical role in the delivery of the West End Project, the single largest public realm and transport investment that Camden has ever proposed and the Council’s highest priority major project.

In this role, you will provide support and assistance to the West End Project Manager in all aspects of their role including: monitoring and reporting on project and financial performance; document control; maintaining the project log and risk register; and commissioning and managing consultants for specialist support. The role will require liaison with all members of the West End Project team, internal stakeholders, Transport for London and the Business Improvement Districts. Alongside this, you’ll be required to build excellent relationships and work in partnership with the engagement officer and project manager.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute towards and shape interesting and challenging projects which will influence what the rest of London does and like us you won’t be afraid of trying out new ways of doing things.

About you

You will hold a certificate or equivalent in a subject related to transport planning / traffic engineering – alternatively you’ll have different qualifications with the ability to successfully demonstrate experience in this or related work.

With proven ability to build relationships; you’ll have vast experience of partnership working and stakeholder management to achieve the strategic objectives of the participating organisations. You’ll possess experience of design and project management for schemes of significant size, value and complexity including budget management.

To contribute towards an improved service, you’ll need a broad understanding of the key responsibilities and issues facing local government and have a clear understanding of highway design in an urban environment including design criteria, specifications and standards. Your success depends on having a can-do attitude, collaborative working style, and excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills to express complex information accurately and concisely.

About Camden

Camden is located in modern award winning offices at Kings Cross overlooking the open space of Granary Square. You can expect an exceptional range of benefits including discounted access to the onsite Leisure facilities with swimming pool, recognising and rewarding high performance with progression and pay increase, flexible and agile working hours and benefiting from a leading pension scheme.

You can see full details of our excellent benefits at www.togetherwearecamden.com

Make it work for you. Make it your Camden.


Discover and Diversity

To “discover” more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit our recruitment website:
www.togetherwearecamden.com/discover

How to apply:

To apply for this job please follow the "Apply for job" link. In the ‘Why you?’ section of the application form you will be expected to explain how you meet the key requirements for this role listed in this advert. When explaining how you meet each of the requirements, please give examples that clearly demonstrate your skills, knowledge and experience. When writing your examples give a brief description of the situation or task but focus on the actions you took and the result of your actions.

Closing dates for applications: Sunday 1st May 2016 at 23:59 pm
Interviews to be held: TBC
Please quote ref: LBC01460