IT PMO Project Coordinator

Thrive on openness, respect, and collaboration? Good. Us too. Buro Happold has an exciting opportunity for an IT PMO Project Coordinator to join the Project Management Office team.

Buro Happold is currently going through a period of strategic growth. This growth has resulted in an increased demand within the IT and Business Services Team, as we support BAU and drive forward with improvement initiatives.

As an extremely collaborative professional, you excel at building excellent working relationships and possess a high level of political sensitivity and ethics. Your essential soft skills include effective listening, persuasion, a collaborative leadership style, flexibility, self-motivation, creativity, and insightfulness.

As the Project Coordinator is responsible to the Project Management Office (PMO) manager in assisting in the day to day running of the PMO. Including administration and reporting on the PMO portfolio and governance for the IT department. The Project coordinator must ensure the IT department is delivery focused by providing support and guidance on process, governance and reporting as required, taking a pragmatic but persistent approach to ensure all updates and actions are completed regularly and on time.

As a Project Coordinator you will take ownership and full responsibility for a number of IT led projects or the IT deliverables for business led projects where the IT deliverables are not complex. You will also assist on other projects by taking notes and actions during meetings, monitoring and updating the project Risk, CAID and UAT Logs and drafting the weekly status reports.

Required Skills

• Proven work experience as a Project Coordinator or similar role
• Experience assisting in project delivery, from conception through to close out.
• Ability to prepare, update and interpret flowcharts and project plans
• Good organisational skills and time-management with the ability to prioritise
• Good documentation skills with a high level of attention to detail
• Tenacious when following up on actions, updates and deliverables
• A pragmatic but persistent approach to enforcing process and governance
• Good (internal) client-facing and teamwork skills

Desirable Skills

• Hands-on experience with project management tools desirable
• Familiarity with risk management and quality assurance control

Qualifications and Accreditations:

• A Project management qualification PMP / PRINCE2 / PMI or Agile certification is a plus but is not required.

What We Offer You

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Craving a more extraordinary everyday?

Apply today and be where exceptional is everywhere.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.