About the job

Summary

GAD is responsible for the provision of actuarial advice to the UK Government and a range of public service departments regarding their pension provisions and risk management. GAD operates with a number of internal teams with responsibility for specific areas of advice. The Executive Services team supports the GAD executive in delivering key organisational initiatives. It has a wide remit and incorporates staff with a varied skill set.

The Apprentice Project Manager roles will be an essential member of the team, providing project administration and support, whilst learning techniques and practices of Project Management and applying these across GAD. It is expected that the role will work on a varied set of projects whilst working towards the following qualifications:

Associate Project Manager Level 4

PMQ, APM (IPMA Level D)

Job description

It is envisaged that the requirements of the role will grow with the candidate but will include:

Attending Project Board Meetings

• Preparing board papers

• Minute taking

Project Tracking

• Working with spreadsheets and data

• Working with budgets and finance systems

• Preparation of project plans and documentation including reporting and risk

registers

• Interpreting data and providing updates

Project Office Responsibilities

• Liaising with actuarial project managers, chasing for updates

• Following up with managers on Project Initiation Documentations

• Preparation of statistics for organisational indicators

• Intranet updates and refreshing existing resource materials

Project Management

• Project management of projects in IT and business change

• Providing project management support in client projects

• Writing business cases and Project Initiation Documentations

• Project communications preparation

This job description is a broad reflection of the current duties. It is not exhaustive and changes will be made based on GAD’s needs at the discretion of the relevant Function Lead / Director and in conjunction with the post holder.

Responsibilities

Please refer to the job description for more information about the role and the assessment criteria.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Developing Self and Others

Benefits

As well as competitive salaries, we offer a substantial package of benefits:

- Extensive talent, career and personal development

- 25 days annual leave per year, increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service. In addition we offer 9 days public and privilege days leave per year (pro rata for part time staff)

- Generous defined benefit Civil Service pension scheme

- Family-friendly policies such as help with caring responsibilities, special leave, generous paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave

- Access to employee assistance programme and occupational health

- Community volunteering programme, the opportunity to join a trade union, and discounted membership of local and national sports and social groups

- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity

- Salary advances for travel costs, including annual season tickets and cycle-to-work schemes

- Complimentary BUPA health check for permanent staff n