Project Management Placement

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Project Management Placement

Egress are now looking for new Project Management Placement!

As Egress Software Technologies continues its path of exciting growth, we are offering an exceptional opportunity for an undergraduate to take part in a 12-month placement in our Project Management Office team, starting from Summer 2019, as part of their university degree.

This role will be based at Egress’ headquarters in and amongst many other technical organisations in Old Street, London, a stone’s throw away from both The City and trendy Shoreditch.

What would I be doing as a Project Management Placement?

Our Project Management team have the excellent opportunity to work with some exciting prospective and current Egress customers, from a wide range of industries and backgrounds.

We are looking for an ambitious undergraduate with excellent organizational skills to join the Project Management Office team to support all the project management activities in our exciting and dynamic business. You will be interacting with several teams at Egress, including Sales, Product Development, Customer Services, and Customer Success, which will give you a great overall understanding on how our business works.

You will be working as part of our Project Management Office, as part of our Project Management team, and your role will include:

• Assisting with the development, updating, monitoring and storing of project plans and documents
• Help determine time, cost, resources and materials to complete a project
• Building relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and managing expectations
• Tracking the status of projects to achieve short and long-term targets
• Supporting projects through their whole lifecycle
• Creating reports based on project needs, risks and issues
• Arranging meetings, workshops, etc.
• Taking minutes of meetings and following up on actions
• Providing administrative support to the Project Managers

Would I suit this role?

If you are someone who is organized, a meticulous planner, has great interpersonal skills and has great attention to detail, then this could be the role for you! We don’t expect you to have previous experience in Project Management (although previous exposure would be beneficial). Someone who is a self-starter with a can-do attitude, who is resilient and can manage conflict will fit this role well.

The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic second year student at university who is studying in a UK based university, predicted a 2:1 or above in a Business-related degree. The Project Management Placement would suit a person who has:

• Excellent organisation and planning skills
• Excellent interpersonal and rapport-building skills
• Strong attention to detail
• A strong understanding of Microsoft Project, Excel or similar tools
• The ability to work independently and as a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Problem solving skills and is solution focused
• A “can do” attitude
• The ability to work under pressure
• If you have an understanding of planning principles, project reporting, resource tracking and any experience with PMO tools, this will be advantageous.

What rewards and benefits would I get in this role?

• 25 days annual leave
• Free breakfasts
• Monthly fully funded office socials (Trampolining, Bowling, Rounders, Sports Day, Pub Quiz, Board Games Night etc.)
• Invite to our Annual Kick Off event in February (2x nights away in a UK resort, team building activities, all meals and accommodation paid for)
• Casual dress code
• Friday beer o’clock
• Cycle to work discount scheme
• Discounted gym scheme
• RAC discounted breakdown cover
• Pool league
• Company sports teams
• Charity events
• White Collar Factory office perks including discounted theatre and concert tickets.
• Access to running track on the rooftop of the White Collar Factory

About Egress

Egress Software Technologies is an award-winning provider of encryption services designed to secure all forms of electronic information via a single platform. Egress encryption services are currently used by organisations around the world across multiple sectors. We’re proud of our award-winning technology which is the very best in the business. At the 2018 Computing Security Awards we were named ‘Encryption Solution of the Year’, and in 2017 we won the ‘Cloud Security Solution of the Year’. In the past year we have brought on 60 people into our 180 people organisation, and growth is set to keep going. Our success in hiring graduates, placement students and apprentices was recognised at Rate my Placement’s 2017 National Undergraduate Employability award where we were shortlisted for the ‘Best Small to Medium-sized Employer’.

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