Project Support Officer

Job Category : Admin / Clerical
Location : RIVER PARK HOUSE, London Borough of Haringey
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £161.71 per day

Role Purpose

1. To provide programme and business support to help deliver Haringey’s Local COVID-19 Outbreak Management Plan
2. To prevent and suppress local outbreaks of COVID-19
3. To have a planned owned by local partners and communities
4. To engage and involve local communities
5. To provide local infrastructure and oversight on outbreak prevention to link into national programmes
6. Directly providing business administration support to senior managers in public health
7. Providing skilled project management of the public health contributions to the Councils Borough Plan, Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) and north central London (NCL) Sustainability & Transformation Partnership (STP), plus other small ad hoc projects
8. The postholder will provide support to the Director of Public Health and wider partners to co-ordinate delivery of the programme of work

Main responsibilities:

⦁ Providing an overall programme plan and help to set up the governance structures
⦁ Co-ordinating and organising programme boards and meetings
⦁ Keeping records of key meetings and following up actions with partners
⦁ Providing summary updates to senior managers and partners
⦁ Co-ordinating the production of key documents including the Outbreak Management Plan

1. Providing an overall programme plan and help to set up the governance structures for the

⦁ delivery and oversight of local outbreak management plan
⦁ ensures appropriate partner involvement
⦁ Oversight of funds
⦁ Data and reporting to Haringey COVID member led engagement board and GOLD
⦁ Provide programme and business support to COVID – 19 LOMP
⦁ Co-ordinating Programme boards and meetings
⦁ Summary updates to senior managers and partners
⦁ Managing data reporting to DPH
⦁ Managing overall PPE stock

Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

1. Knowledge and skills in programme management tools i.e. spread sheets, progress mapping.
2. Skills in delivery of information regarding programmes i.e. giving presentation, providing reports
3. Knowledge and experience of using IT project management tools.
4. Knowledge of change management processes i.e. why people resist change and how to overcome this
5. Skills in communication which activate delivery by others i.e. getting programme updates from officers
6. Experience of programme management involving multiple stake holder’s
7. Understanding and commitment to promoting and implementing the Council’s Equal Opportunities policies.
8. Knowledge of health and safety legislation and data protection
9. Experience of management of administration staff