DV Project Planner
Duration: 6 months rolling contracts, view for long term extensions.
Location: London, 5 days per week on site
Inside IR35
Candidates must be holding Active DV Clearance

Responsibilities:
* Advise and support on planning best practice.
* Create, review, analyse, assure, and maintain Portfolio/Programme/Project schedules.
* Identify and maintain dependencies across the delivery environment
* Input to and review of management products.
* Co-ordinate the schedule update process.
* Lead and facilitate planning workshops and relevant training sessions.
* Proactively identify and progress opportunities to add value to strategic and tactical decision making.
* Demonstrate an understanding of traditional and agile methodologies to advise on most appropriate planning practices.
* Where necessary, support resource planning and utilisation analysis
* Ability to create/update project plans, schedules & costs
* Ability to utilise earned value analysis to determine project performance
* Manage stakeholders and relationships.
* Generate reports on project performance and circulate to stakeholders

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 18 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.