Project Support Officers

Project support officers assist in the organisation, planning, monitoring and direction of a project and ensure it is adequately resourced and on schedule.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 16,766
£ 27,994
£ 54,486

Available jobs

In the past year there were 61,677 vacancies for this type of job

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Monitors the progress of the project and provides updates to project team, clients and other stakeholders.

  • Liaises with and ensures effective communication between the project team, other departments, the project manager, the client and/or senior management.

  • Advises on project procedures and assists the project team in decision making.

  • Creates and maintains a project timetable, helps ensure the project proceeds on schedule and manages relevant administrative elements of the project.

  • Analyses project components, organises them into a logical sequence and establishes the minimum time required for the project.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Project Management

  • Procurement

  • Agile Methodology

  • Stakeholder Management

  • Project Planning

  • Construction

  • Change Management

  • Finance

  • Risk Management

  • Project Documentation

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communication

  • Management

  • Planning

  • Leadership

  • Governance

  • Problem Solving

  • Operations

  • Detail Oriented

  • Coordinating

  • Customer Service

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.