The Opportunity

We're looking for an Associate Project Manager to join the Professional Services Team within CACI's Enterprise Systems Business Unit. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys bringing structure, organisation and momentum to projects, and who wants to develop their project management career in a supportive, fast-paced environment.

You'll provide essential coordination and administrative support across several major client projects and internal initiatives - helping with planning, governance, reporting and day-to-day project administration. Alongside this, you'll take ownership of a small portfolio of your own projects, which may include client-facing work, internal improvement projects or bid-related activity.

You'll play a key role in ensuring projects are delivered to agreed requirements, timelines and budgets, working closely with internal stakeholders and clients, and representing CACI with professionalism at all times.

The Fit

We're looking for someone who enjoys both Project Support & Coordination and Project Management, and who is ready to take the next step in their career.

In this role, you will:

• Provide administrative and coordination support to Project Managers and the Head of Professional Services, including:
  
  • Setting up project workspaces
  • Coordinating meetings, taking minutes and tracking actions
  • Planning resources
  • Monitoring budgets and preparing reports
  • Tracking progress against plans
  • Maintaining risk and issue logs
• Ensure project objectives and success criteria are clearly defined, communicated and met.
• Follow our project management methodology, Fusion, and ensure the right level of governance is applied.
• Support the development of robust project plans, working with the right stakeholders and identifying dependencies.
• Monitor and control scope, resources, cost, time, risk and quality throughout delivery.
• Support change management processes and help ensure customer expectations are met while protecting commercial outcomes.
• Contribute to accurate financial and resource estimates and help maintain project margins.
• Implement risk and issue management processes and escalate appropriately.
• Prepare or contribute to weekly progress reports for internal Project Boards.
• Build strong working relationships across project teams and with clients.
• Capture and share knowledge and lessons learned.
• Support testing activities to ensure solutions meet client requirements.
• Provide cover for other projects during periods of annual leave.

Key Attributes and Skills

Essential

• At least two years' experience in a project office or project support role, including supporting Project Managers through the full lifecycle.
• Good understanding of project management methodologies, governance and the software development lifecycle.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills.
• Strong proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook).
• Experience using issue and project tracking tools.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage a varied workload and meet deadlines.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• High attention to detail.
• Knowledge of ISO quality standards and experience working within them.

Desirable

• Experience managing or supporting projects through the full lifecycle with internal or external clients.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Accreditation in project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Waterfall, Agile, PMP).
• Background in systems design, development or implementation.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project.
• Experience using JIRA, QMetry or Cygnum.

Core Behaviours
As a business unit we have adopted the following core personal behaviours:
Reliable
Flexible
Adaptable
Pro-active
Team Player

We expect everyone to exhibit these characteristics. On-going assessment against these behaviours will form a part of performance reviews.

Equal Opportunities:

CACI is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favourably due to ethnic origin, age, sex, gender identity, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, and disability or health condition, actively working to prevent discrimination.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will;

• Provide reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process where requested (contact a member of the recruitment team on 020 7602 6000 to discuss individual requirements further)
• Offer people with health conditions and disabilities, meeting the minimum criteria for a role an interview.

Our people are unique and we encourage and support them to be confident in contributing to our inclusion journey.