Project Support Officer

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to ‎4,800 digital, cyber and
intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across ‎16 countries to collect,
connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed
forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most
demanding environments.

The purpose of the Project Management (Early Careers) role is to provide
ambitious, intelligent and hard-working Early Careers individuals with skills,
knowledge and experience in project and service delivery management to enable
them to progress into a successful career in Project Management.

A Project Management (Early Careers) individual will be involved in a wide
variety of Project / Service delivery teams, working alongside talented and
experienced Project Management professionals; and shall learn day-to-day
Project / Service delivery skills required to solve complex business /
technical challenges for our external clients and/or internal customers. Most
importantly, alongside their team, they shall learn to take accountability of
the successful delivery of Projects and Services by ensuring that high quality
planning, control and assurance practices are followed on all aspects of
project delivery, including mobilising consulting and engineering resources at
various stages of the project lifecycle. Project Management (Early Careers)
individuals will typically undertake a series of assignments of approximate ‎6
months duration that will provide a range of appropriate skill and experience
and give exposure to other business roles in a project environment. Project
Management (Early Careers) individuals will learn the tools, techniques and
approaches used by Project and Service Delivery Management professionals and
apply them in a controlled environment to ensure projects are delivered on
time and to budget. In addition to delivering on project work, graduates are
expected to contribute and support activities within Project Management and
wider Early Careers, and while doing so build strong professional networks.
This role will also include developing understanding of BAE Systems Applied
Intelligence core values, organisational structure and working practices.

The specific responsibilities that relate to this role include:

• Play an active role in mobilising the team and supporting senior project professional in managing suppliers, contractors and associates.


• Define, document and execute small projects or work-package e.g. less than three months, with a small team, small budget, no interdependency with other projects, and no strategic impact.


• Supports and contributes in all project phases, gaining experience of managing projects and reporting to Project Professional or Senior Project Professional.


• Identify risks and propose mitigations and fall-back options.


• Contributes to preparing realistic project and quality plans and support activities to track against the plans, providing regular and accurate reports to senior project managers and stakeholders as appropriate.


• Proactively monitors costs, timescales and resources used, evaluates risks of change, bring it to senior project professionals attention to take action where these deviate from agreed budget or agreed task contingency within their work-stream or project area.


• Provide support to senior project professional to ensure that own projects are formally closed and where appropriate, subsequently reviewed and that lessons learned are recorded.


• Support Senior Project Professional to identify business winning opportunities for new or extended work, within or related to the scope of the project, programme or portfolio.
  Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
  We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be
  working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office
  or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at
  different times of the day.
  By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together,
  even when we're working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for
  increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our
  work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.
  Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital
  Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees
  with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds - the best
  and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise
  individual and organisational potential.
  Division overview: Capabilities
  At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in
  the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the
  business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence,
  containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that
  design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects
  that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private
  sector.
  As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the
  solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all
  have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.