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Job Title Project Support Executive
Position Full Time - Permanent
Role Business Services
Location London
Practice Area/Department IT
Description

Before you meet us, get to know us

RPC is a modern, progressive and commercially-oriented City legal services business. From our offices in the UK, Hong Kong and Singapore we provide advice to both UK and international clients.

What we do

Our legal practice spans a wide range of industry sectors and is broadly split into two discrete areas: insurance and corporates. Working on both contentious and non-contentious matters, our clients range from large multinationals to growth UK corporate firms and other professional practices, and include many household names.

Why we're different

We have a confident, accessible and enterprising approach that sets performance, service and value at the top of the agenda. Our goal is to do the usual things unusually well, make the complex simple and help our internal and external clients build better, stronger businesses.

Business Services at RPC

Working at RPC means being part of a collaborative and creative environment, which is flexible, transparent and friendly. We value our business services teams and recognise that individual contributions at all levels are essential to the success of RPC as a whole.

R PC's business services teams include:

  • Brand Marketing & Sales
  • Client Services
  • Executive Office
  • Facilities
  • Finance
  • Legal Project Management
  • Information Technology
  • People & Talent Development
  • Risk & Compliance
  • Secretarial Support

Role Overview

You will be part of a new programme delivery function, who will be tasked with ensuring an ambitious portfolio of business change and technology projects are delivered on time and in line with the firm's objectives and strategy. You'll be responsible for supporting the team, and ensuring projects are coordinated and managed appropriately, in line with a governance framework that you'll help to create.

Reports to

Project Manager

Duties and Responsibilities include but not are limited to the following:

  • Helping to establish the project delivery function, which will involve designing and implementing our internal processes and governance arrangements, and working with other business services colleagues to define the scope and remit of the team and its position in the firm
  • Developing and maintaining relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, customers, and suppliers
  • Ensuring the agreed project management methods, standards and processes are maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Assisting the Project and Change Managers in the production and maintenance of project plans and other project related documentation
  • Co-ordinate the production of all reports and produce project summary reports
  • Set up and maintain systems for recording project costs
  • Maintain risk and issue logs and change control records

Knowledge, skills and experience

  • Experience of working in a legal or other professional services environment
  • Knowledge and experience of working with a range of project and risk management methodologies and techniques, and related governance frameworks and documentation
  • Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Keen attention to detail and numeracy skills
  • Ability to deal with difficult or demanding situations
  • Self-motivated and directed
  • Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
  • Analytical skills
  • Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
  • Well-developed interpersonal skills
  • Diplomacy
  • The ability to motivate people
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