Project Support Coordinator - London or Manchester - Hybrid

Dufrain delivers Data Engineering, Cloud, Data Strategy & Management as well as BI & Analytics services to a range of large enterprise clients in data-rich industries. We have a particular focus on Financial Services but we continue to diversify across other verticals. We offer a leading data solutions proposition, helping our clients with ‘hands-on’ delivery of long-term data programmes to enable them to gain valuable insights and make better informed decisions.

Dufrain has delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 40% over the past two years and continue to build and strengthen our capability. In July 2022, Phoenix Equity Partners, invested in Dufrain and this allows the company to drive our next phase of growth. This growth will see us expand our operations and client services. As the UK’s leading independent data solutions provider, Dufrain is well-placed to capitalise on global demand for data services.

We live by the vision of enjoying our work and putting this into our interactions in and out of the office by following our motto #getbusyliving.

Our culture

Here at Dufrain we are dedicated to developing and nurturing our people. We always provide employees with exciting challenges and rewards. Our culture of sharing and learning from one another helps us create a great environment. Life at Dufrain involves socializing whether that is at our regional social events, team events or our various clubs that you can join. Our Tech Communities are designed to deliver forward-thinking solutions and will help you expand your knowledge and networks. And not to forget to mention our Social Communities, LGBTQ+ (Prism) and Empower (woman in Data) Open and honest feedback is important to us and that is why we do our annual employee surveys. We have an excellent Glassdoor score, please have a look and see!

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Coordinator to join our PMO function This role is right for individuals with proven experience in a Project Management environment.

Required Skills:

• Minimum 2 years experience in a PMO Coordination/project coordination/project support role, preferably within the field of data.
• Project management qualification/certification, for example, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM or similar
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong MS office knowledge
• Beneficial to have experience with Smartsheet and DevOps

Responsibilities

• Provides support and co-ordination of the following: project reporting, issue & risk escalation, portfolio RAID
• Supports production/collation of documentation, for example stakeholder updates, requirements, plans, communications, RAIDs
• Inputs to, supports and maintains the project delivery playbook and associated assets, for example project templates and processes. Assists with communication of the playbook and supports end users, for example, supports project delivery leads in accessing the correct documentation and processes to support delivery.
• Organisation of meetings, coordination of actions, facilitation of follow-up actions.
• Provides support and coordination to the PMO & Project Manager for the life cycle of strategic business projects.
• Adhoc-support to key stakeholders.

What we offer you

We have a working culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent, while providing exciting opportunities and challenges to generate positive change for our clients.

You can expect guaranteed investment to your personal development. We have structed learning paths on a number of platform including Udemy and not to mention the in house knowledge that is shared by all of our consultants, our lunch and learn sessions are regular fixtures in the calendar.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary

• Annual Performance related bonus

• Hybrid home/onsite/office working – Edinburgh, Manchester & London

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank and public holidays)

• Birthday day off – celebrate with an extra holiday

• Career progress programme - guaranteed learning and development investment and your own career coach

• Life insurance

• Private medical health insurance

• Contributory pension

• Health and wellbeing group

• And many more.

If you’re passionate about data, and you’re looking to join a leading data and analytics company based in the UK, you could find your dream role at Dufrain.

Apply to join us in our quest to get busy living and make a difference.