Technical Project Coordinator - Chertsey

The Project Coordinator exists to enable effective, controlled project delivery by providing structured coordination, governance support, and day to day administration across projects, allowing Project Managers and sponsors to focus on leadership, decision making, and outcomes.

The role acts as the operational backbone of project delivery, ensuring that plans, actions, communications, and controls are consistently maintained, visible, and aligned to agreed standards.

Key Responsibilities

1. Project Planning and Organisation

Supports portfolio owners translate objectives into Delivery Plans recognising Dependencies, Risks, Milestones, and Resources requirements.

Maintain Project Plans and associated project artifacts throughout duration of delivery

Escalate Risks or Issues as necessary to ensure successful delivery outcomes

2. Documentation and Reporting

Ensure project Checkpoint and Highlight reports are shared with stakeholders with timely up to date content.

Supporting documentation for governance forums is prepared to a high quality and shared in advance of session.

Ensure Portfolio reporting including overall resource pool utilisation and risk profile is up to date and to a high quality

3. Resource Management

Maintain team resource list by area and specialism including external partners

Maintain new demand backlog and capture resource requirements per item

Maintain resource utilisation views ang highlight major over or underutilization

4. Budget tracking

Maintains project budget tracking including order and invoice management compliance

Highlight any project budget tolerance issues

5. Communication & Relationship

Maintain strong relationship with portfolio owners supporting continued roadmap development and definition.

Provide structured delivery communications to project stakeholders in the form of Highlight, Checkpoint, Action list etc.

Organise and host governance forums and capture / progress any Decisions or Actions

Essential

Experience working as part of a Project Management Office supporting multi project delivery with a good level of Project and Portfolio literacy.

Strong capability in maintaining standard project artifacts such as Highlight and Checkpoint reporting, Delivery Plans, Action, Risk and Issue logs

Strong communication skills, able to effectively interact with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

Ability to prioritise and organise diverse set of tasks and activities

Desirable

Recognised project management certification (PRINCE2, PMP, APM)

Degree in Technology / Business discipline or equivalent

Experience of using one of the following tools for delivery management: Atlassian Jira, Microsoft DevOps, Microsoft Project

Experience in the use of Artificial Intelligence agents

Experience working with multinational, multidisciplinary teams

Key Competencies

Strategic & Systems Thinking

Organisational Orchestration

Analytical Problem Solving

Communication & Narrative Leadership

Portfolio & Programme Literacy

Change Leadership

Judgement & Integrity

Adaptability & Resilience

Success Measures

Project artifacts and measures are up to date and accurately reported

Preparation and support of Governance forums is timely and to a high quality

Stakeholder alignment and satisfaction is consistently high

Delivery across project aligns to defined Compass Group Delivery Methodology

Project outcomes are achieved, delivered into business as usual with clear ownership