Project Support Officer

On behalf of Homes England, we are looking for a Project Support Officer (Inside IR35) for a 6 Months (until 31st March 2027) contract based REMOTELY - occasional travel to your nearest hub .

Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise , and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

As a Project Support Officer , your main responsibilities will be:

- Support Programme leadership by coordinating delivery activity and enabling informed decision -making across the programme.
- Maintain and apply project and programme management processes to ensure consistency, compliance and effective governance.
- Coordinate workforce planning, recruitment activity and onboarding, providing accurate resourcing information and support.
- Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies and change requests, escalating where appropriate.
- Contribute to resolving delivery challenges through analysis , tracking and timely intervention.
- Identify process inefficiencies and support continuous improvement across programme delivery.
- Support delivery of programme outcomes to agreed standards, timescales and governance requirements.
- Monitor programme spend and support procurement activity in line with financial controls and authority levels.
- Produce clear, accurate reports and performance updates for governance and senior stakeholders.
- Collaborate across the programme and wider Agency to support joined-up delivery.

Essential:

- Familiarity with Digital Data and Technology perspective, user-centred design, Government Digital Service Manual and Service Standard.
- Understanding of project and programme management principles and governance frameworks.
- Experience supporting projects or programmes within a structured delivery environment.
- Experience producing clear, accurate reports for governance and senior stakeholders.
- Knowledge of risk, issue, dependency, assumption and change control processes.
- Ability to coordinate planning, scheduling and delivery activity across multiple workstream
- Experience maintaining effective document and information management systems.

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

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, Homes England encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates . Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, Homes England welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process.

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".