Portfolio Planning Assistant

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Contract Term: 4 months 2 days week in Waterloo

Contracting Authority: Network Rail

Location: Waterloo

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!

As a Portfolio Planning Assistant your main key responsibilities would be to:

provide analysis and reporting of the infrastructure investment portfolio, providing reports and insights to senior management on the performance of the enhancements portfolio to support key decision-making processes.

This includes supporting with the preparation of enhancements information as part of broader rail industry and regulatory processes, for example our business and industry long term strategic planning processes.

Your communication skills will be put to good use as you will liaise with project clients and sponsors to gather required inputs on time to undertake analysis and compile reports for key periodic meetings.

This will include compiling submissions and other information for these meetings.

You’ll also liaise with sponsors to collate and coordinate required information for the Enhancements Delivery Plan quarterly updates.

As well as, supporting the team in the production of papers for executive portfolio meetings.

Essential:

• Good written and verbal communication skills.
•  Good organisational skills.
• Good analytical skills,
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
•  Proficient with MS Office software (Excel, PowerPoint, etc)

Desirable

• Basic understanding of project and programme management principles and processes (e.g., Change Control).
•  Basic understanding of Network Rail project processes.
•  Some knowledge and experience of rail industry structure and planning processes.
•  Experience of project reporting and analysis in relation to physical and financial performance

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with <email address removed>

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.

If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, PSR provides a ‘Guaranteed Interview’ scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of our PSR Sourcing team.

If you qualify, please notify us on <email address removed> and we will be in touch.

Network Rail are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. They welcome applications from everyone.

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.