What you will be doing in the role:
- Provide coordination and administrative support to projects and programmes across the Directorate.
- Maintain project documentation, plans, logs and records, ensuring accuracy and version control.
- Organise and support project meetings, workshops and governance forums, including agendas, minutes and action tracking.
- Monitor project risks, issues, dependencies and milestones, identifying mitigations and escalating concerns where required.
- Lead allocated project workstreams, coordinating stakeholders and tracking delivery progress.
- Prepare and quality‑assure reports, presentations, dashboards and governance papers for project boards.
- Support stakeholder engagement, including stakeholder mapping, communication planning and drafting engagement materials.
- Analyse project information and performance data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
- Assist with planning and delivering workshops and engagement events.
- Contribute to continuous improvement, helping refine project delivery processes, tools and ways of working.
- Provide general support to ensure effective delivery of transformation and service improvement initiatives.
What are we looking for?
To be successful in this role you will have:
- An understanding of the systems, processes and practices that support effective project delivery.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels.
- Excellent organisational and analytical skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
- Confidence working both independently and collaboratively in fast‑moving environments.
- The ability to provide clear advice and guidance, adapting your communication style to suit different audiences.
- Competence in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint, with the ability to collect, analyse and present data.
- A basic understanding of highways, transport and planning.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
- an excellent local government pension scheme
- generous holiday entitlement of 25 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans
For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.
Further information
The reference number for this role is EIE01583.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Antonia Smith (Change Delivery Lead - Projects ) at [email protected]
For issues or queries regarding your application please contact [email protected].
To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.
Any candidates wishing to apply for this position, who would require sponsorship can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) for the post by assessing their circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.
Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.
We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.
Job Reference: EIE01583
