Please note this position will be required to work across North Yorkshire (York, Thirsk, Scarborough, Pickering).

The Wilf Ward Family Trust is on an exciting digital transformation journey, and were looking for a Project Officer to help make it happen. This role supports the delivery of key digital projects that improve how we work and help us achieve our vision of Extraordinary People, Extraordinary Lives.

The Role

Youll support the day-to-day delivery of digital projects, working closely with colleagues, partners, and suppliers. From coordinating activity and managing risks to supporting training and communications, youll help ensure projects are delivered smoothly and new systems are successfully embedded across the Trust.

What Youll Do

• Support delivery of digital projects, including planning, reporting, and governance

• Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners

• Identify risks and opportunities and help drive solutions

• Support system training and user adoption

• Keep stakeholders informed with clear, inclusive communication

• Champion digital tools and modern ways of working

What Were Looking For

• Full driving licence and willingness to travel between Trust sites

• Experience delivering projects through traditional or agile project management methodologies, including project plans, risk registers and writing project reports.
• Experience facilitating requirements gathering workshops across a range of stakeholder abilities.
• Apply structured fact-finding to identify project pain points, analyse root causes, and develop detailed, actionable plans that drive successful delivery.
• Experience of working with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including external partners.
• Proven ability to prioritise, delegate and meet challenging deadlines.
• Time management and dealing with competing priorities and pressures ability
• To manage own workload, hold yourself and others to account and, communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with colleagues.
• Confidence using digital systems and technology, in particular the Microsoft 365/Online suite of tools (Sharepoint, Onedrive, Teams, Office 365).
• There is an expectation of travel around the Trust sites, making a current full driving license essential.

Desirable

• Experience using modern project management tools such as Asana,
• Monday.com, Notion, etc.
• Experience delivering successful technology implementation projects.
• Experience in crafting effective communications tailored to diverse audiences and platforms, ensuring clarity, engagement, and impact.

We recognise the importance of recruiting skilled, compassionate, and reliable staff, whilst demonstrating in practice our commitment to inclusion, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk. Please be aware its a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group such as adults or children. Please note any successful job offer will be conditional based on pre-employment checks such as DBS and referencing prior to a start date agreed. The Wilf Ward Family Trust has a clear commitment to safeguarding within all practices, for more information on criminal discloses you can visit Check if you need to tell someone about your criminal record: When you need to tell someone about your criminal record - GOV.UK

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