Project Support Officer

Project Support Officer

The UK National Security, Defense and Intelligence Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Project Support Officer to support delivery of the Metropolitan Police contract.

In this role, you will provide broad project and PMO support across governance, planning, reporting, financial administration, risk and issue coordination, stakeholder engagement, document management, and the maintenance of key project artefacts. You will help ensure project information is accurate, accessible, appropriately controlled, and aligned to agreed delivery and governance processes.

This position focuses on structured project support, governance coordination, management information, reporting, administration, and cross-functional collaboration, working closely with project leadership, the Head of PMO, delivery teams, enabling functions, suppliers, and customer stakeholders. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide broad project support across governance, planning, reporting, administration, financial control, resource coordination, and stakeholder engagement activities

• Coordinate, maintain, and track project documentation, ensuring records are accurate, accessible, appropriately version controlled, and aligned to agreed governance processes

• Support project leadership with day-to-day project administration, including finance, human resources, purchasing, budgeting, scheduling, reporting, and management information

• Maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, action trackers, decision logs, RAID records, dependency registers, and other core project controls as required

• Support the preparation, collation, and quality review of project reports, management information, governance packs, customer updates, and internal briefings

• Track actions, risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and decisions, ensuring owners are identified, updates are captured, and overdue items are escalated appropriately

• Support project governance activities, including meeting cadence, agenda preparation, minute taking, action capture, follow-up coordination, and maintenance of meeting records

• Work with project leadership to organise planning increment workshops, including booking facilities, conference rooms, meeting invites, agendas, supporting materials, and visitor requests

• Ensure key stakeholders are prepared for planning workshops through advance creation, review, and maintenance of appropriate planning documentation and supporting records

• Capture, store, version control, and share outputs from planning activities through appropriate document management channels

• Coordinate visitor requests, onboarding inputs, access arrangements, meeting logistics, and general administrative support for customer, supplier, and delivery team engagement

• Coordinate with the Head of PMO to maintain configuration control of project documentation, project artefacts, governance records, and related repositories

• Maintain the project organisation chart, distribution lists, contact records, stakeholder information, and associated controlled documentation in consultation with the Head of PMO

• Support project leads with day-to-day cost, resource, and workforce administration, including charge codes, overtime booking, purchase requests, forecasting inputs, and resource tracking

• Coordinate, collate, and manage content for external briefings, ensuring source material is current, controlled, and traceable

• Identify opportunities to improve project administration, reporting, document control, and PMO processes, supporting continuous improvement and consistent ways of working

Basic Qualifications

Experience in a project support, project administration, PMO, programme support, or similar delivery support role

Strong document management, information control, and configuration management experience

High level of IT literacy, including experience of document management platforms, collaboration tools, spreadsheets, reporting packs, and project tracking tools

Strong accuracy and attention to detail when maintaining controlled documents, project artefacts, trackers, registers, and management information

Good understanding of project governance, planning, cost management, risk and issue management, estimating, forecasting, resource planning, reporting, and document control processes

Ability to coordinate multiple activities, manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and work independently to achieve day-to-day objectives

Clear, assertive, and patient communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with project teams, senior stakeholders, customers, suppliers, and enabling functions 

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting enterprise, government, defence, national security, or complex programme delivery environments

Experience working with PMO teams, delivery teams, commercial functions, finance teams, HR, procurement, suppliers, and formal governance forums

Experience maintaining document registers, action trackers, RAID logs, decision logs, dependency registers, project plans, resource records, and controlled repositories

Knowledge of planning increment coordination, workshop administration, meeting governance, and stakeholder preparation activities

Experience preparing project briefings, management information, reporting packs, governance materials, customer updates, and leadership dashboards

Familiarity with document control, configuration management, continuous improvement, lessons learned, and standardised PMO ways of working

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
Contributory Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
Flexi-TIme

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

Pay Range:

£44,700.00-£57,300.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.