Project Support Officer

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

The purpose of the Project Management (Early Careers) role is to provide ambitious, intelligent and hard-working Early Careers individuals with skills, knowledge and experience in project and service delivery management to enable them to progress into a successful career in Project Management. This role requires you to hold an active NV1/NV2.

The specific responsibilities that relate to this role include:

- _Play an active role in mobilising the team and supporting senior project professional in managing suppliers, contractors and associates._
- _Define, document and execute small projects or work-package e.g. less than three months, with a small team, small budget, no interdependency with other projects, and no strategic impact._
- _Supports and contributes in all project phases, gaining experience of managing projects and reporting to Project Professional or Senior Project Professional._
- _Identify risks and propose mitigations and fall-back options._
- _Contributes to preparing realistic project and quality plans and support activities to track against the plans, providing regular and accurate reports to senior project managers and stakeholders as appropriate._
- _Proactively monitors costs, timescales and resources used, evaluates risks of change, bring it to senior project professionals attention to take action where these deviate from agreed budget or agreed task contingency within their work-stream or project area._
- _Provide support to senior project professional to ensure that own projects are formally closed and where appropriate, subsequently reviewed and that lessons learned are recorded._
- _Support Senior Project Professional to identify business winning opportunities for new or extended work, within or related to the scope of the project, programme or portfolio._

**Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence**

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds - the best and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

**Division overview: Capabilities**

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.