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Project Coordinator – Inside IR35

Contract Term:  Until mid-January 2025

Network Rail is at the heart of revitalising Britain’s railway. From Crossrail – Europe’s largest civil engineering project – to investment in world-class stations and major programmes of electrification, we're involved in some of the most ambitious and diverse ventures that this country has ever seen. We at Network Rail are dedicated to becoming one of Britain's best employers and believe this starts with placing the candidate at the heart of everything we do!

Job Purpose:

The team works with regional customers to assess their organisational leadership capability. We market our core leadership programmes, as well designing bespoke programmes to develop talent, and support succession planning. The Great Together projects build organisational capability, working with groups to understand their gaps, drive more effective teams, and shift organisational culture.

As a Project Coordinator your main responsibilities will be: 

• Creating and maintaining project documents, such as schedules, budgets, and reports.
• Facilitating communication between team members, stakeholders, and the project manager.
• Managing calendars, scheduling meetings, and coordinating project timelines.
• Gathering information, conducting market research, and assisting with data analysis.
• Handling administrative duties like filing, data entry, and organizing project files.
• Assisting in resource allocation, procurement, and tracking project expenses.
• Helping to identify and assess project risks and assisting in developing risk mitigation strategies.
• Monitoring progress, updating task lists, and reporting on project status.
• Assisting in resolving issues that may arise during the project.
• Building relationships with participants and their EAs, particularly at the start of a cohort
• Creating invoices for all participants (each organization works slightly differently)
• Set up virtual event invitations for each cohort.
• Maintaining OneDrive (up to date participation records, storing copies of relevant documents)
• Event support (finding and booking suitable hotels)
• Financial tracking
• Creating social media posts for the LinkedIn group
• Potentially providing PMO support for cross-industry challenge groups

You’ll have: 

• Project Coordinator experience
• MS Office experience including Word, Excel & Outlook
• Admin/secretariat experience

If this Project Coordinator role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Michelle.floyd@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Network Rail is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. They welcome applications from everyone.

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, Network Rail guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant   

Network Railguarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following “this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different”.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.