Project Officer

Reference
1109644

Branch
UCL

Start date
20/03/2026

Duration
Other - See Job

Hours and days
Full-time; 36.5 hours per week

Dress code
Not Applicable

Rate of pay
£23.11

Holiday rate
£4.33

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Project Officer. This role is for an asap start date and has a projected end date of April 10th 2026 though this may be extended. This is a full-time role at 36.5 hours per week. Payment is set at £23.11 per hour + £4.33 holiday pay. This role will be UCL hybrid working with 2 days from the office and the other days from home.

UCL Innovation & Enterprise are a group of specialist teams working with students and staff to encourage a spirit of enterprise, create links with the outside world and accelerate UCL’s innovation and impact.

UCL Innovation & Enterprise's work is at the heart of UCL’s ambition to change the world for the better and plays a vital part in our shared mission to tackle the great global challenges of our time.

Duties and responsibilities

Supporting and coordinating the planning, delivery and review of projects, throughout the project lifecycle, according to project management principles:

• Preparing and/or reviewing project documentation for project concept, initiation, delivery and closure phases
• Working with project owners and drivers to identify objectives, outcomes and outputs of projects and to determine resources required to deliver the project
• Working with project teams to support the delivery of plans and achieve successful outcomes
• Initiating project tasks
• Preparing content for meetings, drafting minutes and capturing actions
• Identifying and tracking project risks and issues, escalating as necessary

Engaging with stakeholders from within I&E and across UCL (including I&E Directors and senior stakeholders from across the institution) to develop projects and ensuring engagement

Project Communication:

• Planning and coordinating project communication activity
• Communicating project progress to stakeholders at all levels

Providing project oversight and governance:

• Assisting with making project governance arrangements and drafting committee papers
• Supporting project portfolio monitoring and reporting, including drafting update reports and maintaining the project register
• Project document management and administration (including lessons and risk and issue log)
• Budget management, collating financial reports of project expenditure
• Supporting the development of and embedding a continuous improvement approach
• Supporting the development of project management training and guidance for the I&E team.   

Assisting with business analysis and supporting business change activities.

Skills and experience

1. Educated to first degree level (or equivalent) - Essential
2. Effective use of project management methodologies, principles and techniques - Essential
3. Delivery in a project management / support role in a higher education or an equivalent working environment - Desirable
4. Professional Project Management Qualification - Desirable
5. Experience of continuous improvement - Desirable

Location
UCL; Hybrid working with 2 days per week at the office and the others from home

Additional information

This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Sunday March 15th. Interviews will be held shortly after.

*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).

*If you have a full-time contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.

Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received so pleased don't delay applying.

Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.

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