DV - Project Associate

Your role will involve:
*Support the Project Manager in the day to day management of assigned projects or workstreams.
*Assist with the development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, and milestones.
*Coordinate project activities, ensuring actions are tracked and completed on time.
*Support delivery of agreed outputs within time, cost, and quality constraints.
*Prepare and update regular project reports, dashboards, and status updates.
*Support RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) management, ensuring logs are accurate and up to date.
*Assist with change control activities, ensuring changes are recorded, assessed, and approved in line with governance processes.
*Support audit and assurance activities by ensuring evidence and artefacts are complete and traceable
*Liaise with delivery teams, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to support timely information flow.
*Assist with project financial tracking, including cost reporting and forecasting
*Support contract and supplier administration activities where applicable.
*Ensure financial data is accurately reflected in project systems and reports

Key skills and experience:
*Technical oversight: Provide technical guidance and ensure the project aligns with technical requirements, often collaborating with tech leads and IT departments.
*Delivered various types of projects through the full project lifecycle. Specifically, ICT infrastructure, application development, test and release
*Familiar with different methodologies. I.e. Prince2, Agile, Safe.
*Managed the agreement process of the project requirements and objectives with the Project Board or appointed project assurance role.
*Managed the delivery of projects in partnership with the customer and business line to ensure acceptance, closedown, and handover to service.
*Operated within defined working practices, ensuring compliance with local project management policy, procedure, and methodology where this is in place.
*Gathered status reports of team members across their project and address issues as appropriate.
*Established reporting project Key Performance Indicators to the Senior Project Manager or Project Board through Highlight Reports and stage assessments.
*Managed project risks and produces an effective plan and risk assessment so that timescales and project costs are understood and underwritten by all by the parties.
*Ensured that formal review procedures are used.
*Managed risks associated with the deliverables of the project.
*Integrated financial data for multiple projects.
*Ensured that the impact on the Business Line Profit & Loss due to project activities within the scope of the project is clearly visible and that all contingency usage is signed-off by the appropriate governance authority e.g. Project Board
*Accountable for tracking the project costs and supporting Business Units in meeting payment milestones.
*Ensured that the milestone achievements are signed by the customer and relevant invoices are raised.


Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 18 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.

An award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over multiple years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience.

Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.