Overview
How you’ll make a difference
As a Project Support Officer, you will help to achieve transformational change to transport and regeneration in South Gloucestershire. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience, as you will be supporting Project Managers to deliver transport and public realm regeneration improvement projects in the district, either in development or construction phases.
Through a number of funding streams, South Gloucestershire has secured approximately £100m in funding to decarbonise transport, promoting increased choice of travel options and to drive growth productivity and regeneration through investment in infrastructure.
What you will be doing
- Providing effective support to project delivery teams, you will work closely with Project Managers and other team members, including those from other departments across the council and with partner organisations.
- You will help to manage correspondence across a number of projects, arrange and attend meetings, workshops and engagement events, draft agendas, record detailed minutes and carry out relevant follow-up work.
- It will be your responsibility to monitor outcomes and outputs to ensure they comply with the defined project deliverables, help complete project reports and aid in the preparation and delivery of presentations.
What we need from you
- We require you to have an understanding of project management and how methodologies should be applied, both accurately and effectively.
- It is key that you can build good working relationships with Project Managers, Project Sponsors, peers, suppliers and stakeholders and have the ability to work and communicate across different teams.
- You must have experience in MS Office project scheduling and programming and have an understanding of IT systems.
- It is essential that you can interpret data and prioritise and organise your workload to meet competing deadlines.
- You will have strong interpersonal skills and be confident to deliver presentations.
What you need to know
- There may be the requirement to attend some engagement events in the evenings from time to time.
- We are looking to recruit into 2 positions.
Interviews are to be held on the 13th March 2026.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
- As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
- We’re planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses.
- We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.
We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Project Support Officer Strategic Projects job description
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