London, UK
Assistant project manager
at Museum Studio
Museum Studio is looking for an assistant project manager to join its team in London, UK.
Job title: assistant project manager
Working pattern: full time – 37.5 hours, Monday-Friday
Location: Museum Studio London hub, SE1 (hybrid)
Chargeurs Museum Studio (CMS) is a worldwide group of companies providing creative and professional services to the cultural and commercial experience markets.
Our businesses include the design agencies event and MET Studio, project management consultancy DesignPM and large-format printers Leach in the UK, specialist fabricators Hypsos in the Netherlands and Design&Production in the USA, and fine art publishers Skira in Milan.
We now have an exciting opportunity for an assistant project manager to join our London studio and play a crucial role in supporting our project management team, contributing to the smooth running of projects delivered globally.
Qualifications, skills and experience:
- an interest and aptitude for the project management of design consultancy and build projects, with a willingness to learn the principles expected of the core PM disciplines (production of programmes, presentation skills, ability to cost a project, production of progress reports, site-supervision)
- good written, verbal and presentation skills
- ability to contribute towards high-quality presentations of portfolio/projects with effective communication skills for delivering to internal or external audiences
- capacity to work to resourcing, work outputs and programme plans for all projects
- ability to identify and communicate any opportunities for efficiencies and/or adjustment requirements
- proactive learning approach to become familiar with internal and industry-wide processes and standards
- ability to work flexibly, adapting to new ways of working, collaborating and incorporating other disciplines in development of solutions
- ability to work independently, taking initiative and being proactive
- excellent time management across multiple projects, prioritising tasks/resourcing where needed to meet outlined deliverables to deadlines
- ability to respond constructively to feedback
- an active interest in museums, culture and heritage
Responsibilities:
- support the project management (PM) team, ensuring that the delivery of project-related project management outputs is timely, well presented and effectively administered, including:
- procurement of consultancy teams and contractors
- managing, monitoring and overseeing design activity
- managing, monitoring and overseeing the construction, fabrication, fit out and handover phases
- develop PM competencies to work efficiently and effectively to support the delivery of high-quality outputs for clients as cost-effectively as possible
- deliver specific elements of projects under the direction of the project lead
- develop technical knowledge of project processes and deliverables
- work with the internal PM team as required to ensure the smooth running of a project
- contribute to structuring, creation and delivery of presentations and documents, including preparing project reports, briefs and tender documentation
- support the internal PM team in the execution of efficient internal and external communication across all members of the project stakeholder group (inc. architects, designers, and the wider consultant teams)
- provide day-to-day administrative support to the internal PM and design team across communication, reporting, filing, drawing and design outputs
- record and implement lessons learnt into the continual improvement of the delivery of project services
- contribute to client or contractor-facing meetings and internal and external workshops and presentations
- participate in and make positive contributions towards dynamic in-house weekly studio forums for stimulation of creativity, professional development and teambuilding
- upkeep and adherence to set company processes, standards, time reporting, expenses, leave booking and performance management
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