Shape the Future of Strategic Change at Buro Happold. Join Buro Happold as a Senior SCPO Coordinator.
This person can be based in our Bath or Manchester office on a hybrid working model.
At Buro Happold, we're looking for a Senior SCPO Coordinator to join our Strategic Change and Projects Office (SCPO). This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting business critical programmes that shape the future of our global practice. Working alongside senior leaders and project teams across the business, you'll help drive consistency, governance and continuous improvement while ensuring our strategic projects are delivered with confidence.
If you're an organised, proactive project professional who enjoys collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders, we'd love to hear from you.
About The Role
As a Senior SCPO Coordinator, you'll be at the heart of our Strategic Change and Projects Office, providing project assurance, governance and reporting that enables informed decision-making across the business.
You'll work closely with project and programme leaders to ensure our established project management methodologies are consistently applied, while developing high-quality reporting, dashboards and information management processes that provide valuable insight into strategic delivery.
This is a varied role combining project coordination, governance, reporting, stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement, giving you the opportunity to influence how strategic change is delivered across Buro Happold.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the governance and assurance of strategic projects and programmes across the business.
- Maintain and continuously improve the SCPO's central document repository, ensuring information is accurate, organised and up to date.
- Produce insightful reports, dashboards and project intelligence for senior stakeholders using project management and reporting tools.
- Monitor project performance, requesting status updates and identifying risks, issues and areas requiring intervention.
- Support project teams in applying Buro Happold's project management methodology and governance processes.
- Assist with risk, issue and change management, ensuring appropriate controls and documentation are in place.
- Coordinate programme assurance meetings and maintain associated trackers, logs and reporting.
- Lead on information management best practice across SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and other collaboration platforms.
- Analyse project data to identify trends, lessons learned and opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Champion the adoption of consistent project management standards across the global strategic change community.
- Contribute to the ongoing evolution and improvement of SCPO processes and ways of working.
About You:
- Experience within a PMO, Project Coordinator or Programme Coordination role.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies, governance and assurance processes.
- A recognised foundation-level project management qualification (such as APM) or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong Microsoft 365 skills and confidence producing reports and managing information.
- Experience using project collaboration platforms such as Smartsheet or similar.
- Experience developing dashboards, reporting or data analysis (desirable).
- An interest in automation and emerging technologies, including the application of Agentic AI within project environments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- A proactive, positive approach with the confidence to influence and support colleagues across the business.
Why Join Buro Happold?
At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.
What we Offer You:
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Attractive salary and benefits package.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
- 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities. A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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