Project Coordinator
Post Title: Project Coordinator
Contract type: Permanent
Rank/grade: Grade D
This role is open to all Police Staff / external candidates who meet the essential criteria of the person spec, regardless of current grade.
The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.
Salary: Starting salary from £36,040 plus £6,710 London Weighting per annum
Directorate/department: Change Portfolio, Corporate Services Directorate
Vetting level required: MV/SC
Location: Guildhall Yard East, London (Hybrid)
Who are we?
As City of London Police, we protect the people, businesses and infrastructure of the City of London, one of the most important and dynamic environments in the UK and globally. London City is the smallest home office force in the country, so does that make our job any less challenging? Absolutely not – because there’s so much going on.
City of London Police play a vital role in keeping the City of London diverse community safe. As a staff member you will be helping to making the city safer and deliver a valued service for those that live, work and visit the City.
The City of London Police is keen to promote flexible working and will, subject to operational policing requirements, proactively consider all applications to work flexibly.
The City of London Police is committed to equality of opportunities and continuously strive for inclusivity within our Force. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly from those with disabilities and long-term conditions, those with Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic backgrounds, non-male candidates, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
About the team
The Change Portfolio Office has the exciting yet challenging role of overseeing programmes, projects and change initiatives that make up the City of London Police’s portfolio of change, these vary greatly from organisational design, delivering technological advances to national projects and programmes. We are focused on delivering change to meet the future needs of the business and to achieve the ambitions of our Policing Plan.
Key to the successful delivery of this portfolio is the ability to deploy extensive project management skills, professionalising the team and driving a culture of continuous improvement across the force.
The Programme Delivery Team has been recently restructured to refocus on organisational priorities and solidify its approach to future planning. The team is 12-strong, consisting of 12 Senior Project Managers, Project Managers and Co-Ordinators, all based in the Guildhall, City of London (hybrid working is available).
About the role
City of London Police have an ambitious change portfolio focused on delivering transformational change to meet the future needs of the business and to achieve the ambitions of our Policing and Corporate Plans.
The Change Portfolio Office oversees the programmes, projects and change initiatives that make up this portfolio. Our work ranges from smaller departmental changes to force-wide programmes and projects as well as implementing national programme changes into the force.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be:
- To undertake tasks according to the direction of the Project Manager including preparation of project management tools and assist in the preparation of reports on progress against deliverables and milestones for project governance boards and meeting.
- To support the Project Manager in the implementation of the project plan and ensure a performance management system is maintained in respect of projects staff.
- To prepare and check that all project documentation is of a high quality and aligns to organisational documentation standards and templates.
- To manage all project documentation, ensuring it is version controlled and under configuration management in accordance with agreed filing conventions.
- To manage project budgets to ensure spend is tracked and profiled as required; raise any potential risk/issue against the project spend and ensure end of year budget procedures are followed.
Requirements
For this role, you will need the following:
- Recognised and current qualification in project methodologies to foundation level.
- Understanding and experience of using Microsoft Project
- Knowledge or ability to learn Microsoft Visio
- Experience of working in a project environment in a police service, relevant public/government body such as the Home Office or other security related environment which has close connections with policing matters.
- Experience of working within a team delivering complex goals
This vacancy is open only to those who have the right to work in the UK.
If you would like to discuss the role please contact: joanne.weller@cityoflondon.police.uk
Selection Process
As part of the initial application process, you will be asked to evidence how your experience, skills, and knowledge demonstrate your ability to meet the person specification of the role.
The application and interview will be tested under Level 2 of the College of Policing Competency and Values Framework.
Applicants who fail to address the skills/knowledge/experience of the job description will not be considered.
The closing date for applications is 24th March 2025 23:59.
Following shortlisting, successful candidates will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, to be held week commencing 31st March 2025.
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Benefits:
A diverse workforce improves the service we provide to our public by making us more approachable and relevant within our communities. This is why it’s vitally important that we recruit people from a wide range of communities and backgrounds with an understanding of cultural issues and a wide range of skills. We therefore particularly encourage female and people from Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic communities to join us.
The way we work is changing. With a few exceptions most roles will be able to accommodate part time, job share and flexible working patterns. We can also offer hybrid working patterns of home and office based shift patterns. Feel free to speak to us about any flexible working requirements.
The Force has a number of Staff Support Networks that can offer you support and advice. Applicants are very welcome to contact the networks directly if they need any support or ask any question before they apply. For further information on the networks and their contact details please visit: