Euro 28 Tournament Police Project Support Officer

Job Title: Euro 28 Tournament Police Project Support Officer

Salary: £31,880 to £34,108

Location: 50 Broadway, SW1 with Hybrid working

Contract: Fixed Term Contract until end of July 2028; or open to officers and staff on secondment until July 2028

For secondment applications, please contact joseph.mcdonald@met.police.uk or Dan.Humphreys@met.police.uk

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Euro 28 policing team, providing project and administrative support to the team that will be planning and overseeing tournament policing.

For the role of Tournament Police Project Support Officer you will need a good knowledge of the policing landscape (ideally including event/public order policing) and experience in record keeping, preparing presentations and high quality reports for a wide range of stakeholders and taking minutes.

Some travel across the UK and Ireland may be required to support in person meetings, planning and coordination at all host venues & cities but the majority of the work will be carried out three days a week in a Central London office and two days a week remotely/ at home.

EURO 2028 is the Men’s UEFA European football championships that will be hosted across the UK and Ireland in 2028 and is the biggest sporting event ever jointly hosted across the UK and Ireland. It is anticipated that c.3 million tournament tickets will be sold, many to fans from across Europe; hundreds of thousands more will travel to the UK&I without tickets to sample the atmosphere in city centres and fan zones; 2 billion people will view matches through television or online streaming.

The 51 matches will take place over four weeks in June/July 2028 and will be hosted in the cities of London (two stadiums), Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Cardiff, Glasgow and Dublin.

The complexity and scale in policing the tournament is huge and the skill of UK and Irish policing will be tested to the maximum and be highly visible on the world stage. The scale of the work over the next four years is such that a newly created dedicated policing team is required to plan for the tournament.

Duties and Responsibilities:

You will support the Project Manager in delivering the project management objectives. Preparing reports and presentations at project manager direction across all relevant areas of focus for policing, safety & security Euro 28. This will include meeting administration, planning and scheduling which is key to meeting tournament lead-in timelines and objectives. This is a new team so developing and creating new systems will be a key part of the role.

Develop and maintain appropriate virtual filing systems for key project documents. This is building on from wider administration of booking meeting rooms, taking meeting minutes, preparing meeting agendas and recording and issuing actions via trackers. Key to accountability, openness, decision making log & rationale and transparency in the event of auditing.
Chase up and hold internal colleagues and external partners to account for delivering on actions and deadlines.
Developing strong professional working relationships and diplomacy with a wide number of stakeholders across a complex landscape. Actions and deadlines are key to project planning in keeping with timelines.
It will be the responsibility of the Project support officer to undefined the project manager in preparing papers for presentation, booking rooms, invites, minutes and agendas to a wide range of stakeholders, Host forces and Policing partners as appropriate.

Who we're looking for:

Good knowledge of policing landscape (ideally including event/public order policing).
Ability to assist with basic budgeting procedures and understanding costs & project finances.
Experience in preparing presentations and high quality reports for a wide range of stakeholders that influence organisational strategy on Policing planning.
Will need to take ownership and responsibility for critical governance meetings - e.g. ensuring certain ongoing meetings are fully administered with minutes, attendees invited, apologies received, actions chased.
Prepare reports for more senior colleagues on aspects of project delivery e.g. progress of the project on meeting certain deadlines.
Highly organised and excellent attention to detail - this is a four year multi-million pound project that may one day be subject to significant public and legal scrutiny - an ability to develop and maintain robust fling and recording methods accurately and consistently is vital.

How to apply

Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement, and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 21/02/2025.

Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will commence from 21/02/2025

Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates will commence from 10/03/2025

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Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications