Project Officer

On-going contract Inside IR 35

Bristol

About the role

Project Officers to a 12-month task and finish group that will provide professional environmental advice and technical guidance to the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) programme, working across the Environment and Infrastructure Directorates.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the delivery of the work programme and provide high quality outputs by the agreed deadlines.
• Provide environmental requirements for legal, grant agreement, policy, project and technical documents.
• Provide technical expertise for CRSTS projects.
• Set out clear requirements for the business case development stages, grant agreements (where applicable), contracts, health and safety, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Provide technical expertise for the assessment and appraisal of CRSTS projects in respect to meeting their environmental requirements.
• Inform the approach for evaluating, monitoring, and auditing CRSTS projects in relation to their environmental requirements.
• Apply a continuous improvement approach, including capturing lessons learned.
• Proactively engage and communicate with CRSTS project managers, internal and external stakeholders.
• Escalate project risks, as and when required, to project manager.
• Contribute to a positive team culture with a passion for improving environmental outcomes of infrastructure projects.
• Manage budgets for projects if required, keep track of costs of environmental work in their subject area.
• Create, manage, and update project documentation, including timelines, risk registers, etc., and ensure project delivery to tight deadlines.
• Provide written and verbal regular updates to their line manager and support briefings for senior leaders as required.

Knowledge

• Educated to degree level or with equivalent work experience.
• Qualification in an environment subject.
• Knowledge of the wider climate and nature emergencies and national, regional, and local responses to it.

If interested in the role, please contact me at (url removed) or give me a call on (phone number removed) for further information regarding the role.