Programme & Project Planner Recruitment

A dedicated role within a programme, project or programme office which purely concentrates on the initial and ongoing planning of a project or programme. The Project Planner is also a role which is focused within one programme or project. The planner generally has excellent skills in working with the Project Manager and team to initially assist in scoping the project, creating, issuing and controlling project plans, implementing earned value techniques, identification of project plan issues and supporting the project manager in issue resolution and decision making.

The project planner will also be expert in particular planning tools (PPT) – MS Project, Primavera, NIKU, Artemis etc and equally at home with MS Excel as basic. The Project Planner works proactively with the Project Manager and project team and ensures the project plan remains current and up to date, they’ll also be able to assist in areas such as capacity planning, resource management planning and interdependency management on larger projects and programmes.

Like the Project Planner, the Programme Planner supports the Programme Manager and Project Managers in planning activities to facilitate the delivery of the programme within budget and within timescales. The role differs slightly from that of a project planner due to the support that is required across projects within the programme.

Due to the programme nature – often meaning multiple projects, complexity in terms of shared resources and larger scale in term of budget and scope etc, the programme planner may have both the duties of the project planner i.e., planning on the individual projects as well as the programme planning duties.

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