Alliance Project Officer:
Grade 4 – Dorset and Devon & Cornwall – Hybrid Flexible Working
This is currently a Permanent full-time (37 hours) position
Who are we?
The police have a large number of non-police officer roles, and when you work with us, you join our police family, and are empowered, supported and encouraged to achieve your full potential.
This Project Officer role sits within the Alliance Business Change Department, a team comprising of a variety of roles bursting with a wealth of knowledge and experience, and delivering a diverse portfolio of multi-million-pound projects and change activity across the counties of Devon & Cornwall and Dorset Police. These range from technology implementations and infrastructure improvements to organisational redesign, service transformation, and evolution into the modern world of robotic process automation.
As a Project Officer within our Programme Management Office (PMO), you will provide flexible support across a wide range of projects, programmes and business change activity, offering exposure to a broad variety of work and stakeholders across the organisation. The PMO provides governance, reporting, stakeholder engagement, project controls, and best practice support across the change portfolio. Full training, mentoring and development opportunities will be provided.
Main Responsibilities:
- Delivering a range of project support services across multiple projects and programmes through the PMO tasking model.
- Supporting Project Managers and wider change partners in delivering projects and change initiatives.
- Maintaining project plans, documentation, logs, and records.
- Coordinating meetings, workshops, and stakeholder engagement activities, including recording actions and decisions.
- Preparing reports, presentations, briefing papers and governance documentation.
- Undertaking research, analysis and reporting to support project delivery and decision-making.
- Supporting the management of project risks, issues, actions, and dependencies.
- Supporting project communications and administration, including Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.
- Translating and maintaining process maps and diagrams (training provided).
Benefits:
- Hybrid and flexible working, including flexitime.
- Ongoing training, development, and career progression opportunities.
- Wellbeing support services and Occupational Health provision.
- Access to gym facilities and Blue Light Card discounts.
- Free parking and on-site catering facilities.
- Paid annual leave, sickness allowance, and pension scheme.
- Access to staff pool/hire vehicles for business travel.
This department boasts a great deal of flexibility, with a hybrid-working approach – being based at either Dorset Police HQ Winfrith or Devon & Cornwall Police HQ Exeter, but including home working where appropriate, alongside flexible hours and a flexitime scheme, whereby any additional hours worked can be claimed back in lieu.
What we are looking for:
We are an inclusive organisation where everyone can grow and welcome the variety of experience, knowledge, and skills that diversity brings. So however, you identify and whatever your age, background, and circumstances, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. Applicants for either full or part time will be considered.
Whilst the role profile stipulates formal qualifications/ experience, please do not let these put you off applying as it is much more important to find the right candidate for the role through suitable qualities and transferrable skills and we do provide training:
- Excellent communication and teamworking skills.
- Strong organisational and administrative skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
- Experience using Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to analyse information and produce clear reports and presentations.
- Confidence working with a range of stakeholders.
- Experience working in a project environment would be beneficial.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies such as PRINCE2 Agile would be advantageous, although training will be provided.
The successful applicant will be subject to vetting and referencing checks prior to commencing employment. Interview questions will be aligned to the Competency and Values Framework (CVF) identified within the role profile and will assess how candidates demonstrate the values and competencies required for success in the role.
For more info and to check out what other roles are available:
Find out more about careers in our Police Force - Police Recruitment (recruitment-dcp-dp.org)
Recruitment for Devon & Cornwall and Dorset Police - Police Recruitment (recruitment-dcp-dp.org)
