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Project Support Officer

Location – Plymouth (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), Hybrid
Vacancy Type – Open Ended Appointment
Application Deadline – Friday 25th July 2025
Salary £26-£28k per annum (FTE) DOE
Part time – 24 hours – Flexibility with work pattern*

Responsibilities

• Advising on the best travel options and booking travel. Supporting corporate events.
• Facilitating procurement– raising requisitions and liaising with suppliers, Finance, and Project Leads.
• Booking and coordinating regular external services (i.e. arranging couriers to collect and deliver time sensitive samples, etc.)
• Drafting quotations, assisting with tender proposal submissions, and filling out respective questionnaires.
• Quality control / proofreading of quotations and reports.
• Identifying relevant funding calls, grants and other financial opportunities and disseminating these to our team leads.
• Directing some incoming calls and checking, filtering, and directing incoming enquires.
• Other administrative tasks to support the team.
• Other bespoke project related work by exception, subject to relevant training.

Skills & Attributes

• We are looking for a confident, team focused, positive and proactive individual.
• Communicates openly, respects diverse perspectives, with an ability to contribute and complement our current team.
• IT literate and comfortable with Microsoft packages (Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams) etc.
• Highly organised and efficient.
• Fine attention to detail.

Experience

• Minimum of A-Level education or equivalent qualifications/experience.
• Experience of commercial procurement and financial procedures.
• IT computing systems (Microsoft focused).
• Bespoke internal software systems such as Greentree or similar, although not essential and training will be provided.
• Being involved in complex projects and working with busy teams.
• Making professional decisions autonomously, within provided guidelines.
• Assisting with preparation of externally facing proposals.
• Commercial environments; ideally but not necessarily environmental consultancy.

*We do require Tuesday cover, the remainder of the working week can be agreed.

Please note that this position is a Hybrid role that will require at least 50% of the jobholder’s time to be spent in the office. We are not able to support fully remote working for this role.

Closing date: Friday 25th July 2025
Interviews will be held week commencing 4th August 2025.

We would like some to join our team as soon as possible.
If you are interested, please submit your cover letter and CV to careers@pml.ac.uk.