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Project Support Officer – EURO 28 – FTC (until August 2028)
Job Description
About the role
Provide highly organised, proactive and forward-looking project and administrative support to the GLA’s UEFA EURO 2028 Core Team across a range of areas including: city operations, stakeholder management, fan festivals, social impact and volunteering.
Provide secretariat support to the GLA’s governance structure, working groups, project lead and senior managers where required.
Act as a central coordination point for corporate tasks including internal project reporting, freedom of Information requests and correspondence to the Mayor and GLA officials.
What your day will look like
- Support the EURO 2028 Core Team where required including with administration, events and meetings, stakeholder visits, effective project systems and tools and wider EURO team cohesion and organisation.
- Diary and administrative support to the Project Lead and Senior Managers, EURO 2028 team.
- Track, monitor and manage project actions against targets, take ownership and management of project issues; undertake follow-up or remedial actions when required.
- Arrange meetings, including finding suitable dates, booking rooms and ordering catering or equipment. Ensure all meetings are outcome-focused, with high-quality agendas and clear actions (owners and deadlines). Circulate meeting documentation such as agendas, minutes and presentations and follow up on agreed actions to drive accountability as required.
- Liaise with stakeholders including London Boroughs, London Sport, UEFA and The FA and other key partners and maintain excellent working relationships.
- Co-ordinate, manage and plan consultation and stakeholder events, and communications activities.
- Support the EURO 2028 Business Manager as required to assist with procurement and financial processes to ensure that payments are made in a timely manner.
Skills, knowledge and experience
To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:
- Demonstrable experience of supporting project delivery.
- Strong communication skills and experience of working to demanding deadlines and working with a range of stakeholders.
- Experience of using Microsoft Office including Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Experience of tracking actions, risks and dependencies across projects, using structured systems or tools.
- Exceptional attention to detail and experience of proactively managing multiple priorities within a busy environment.
- An understanding of operating in a politically sensitive environment and handling communications in this environment.
Marketing and Communications Manager – EURO 28 – FTC (until August 2028)
Job Description
About the role
To lead, plan and deliver the high-impact marketing and communications requirements for UEFA EURO 2028 in London in collaboration with UEFA and UK&I.
The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring integration of GLA marketing campaign messages and objectives within the wider event marketing, communications and operational plans.
What your day will look like
- Develop and lead the delivery of an integrated marketing and communications plan for the GLA’s UEFA EURO 2028 project, ensuring alignment of GLA marketing campaign messaging with wider event marketing, communications, operational and business objectives.
- Act as an effective account manager, working closely with the marketing and communications teams at UEFA, UK&I 2028 and the FA to proactively avoid conflicts and promote cross partner alignment of marketing and communications plans.
- Lead the Marketing and Communications Working Group for EURO 2028 in London, ensuring representation from London agencies including London and Partners, Local Authorities, MET Police Service, TfL, and others. Report updates to the Tactical Partners Group.
- Work with EURO 2028 project team members to anticipate future programme needs, proactively planning marketing and communications activity and advising stakeholders on risks, opportunities and direction.
- Work with the GLA Marketing and Digital Communications Team to ensure GLA marketing campaign objectives, messaging and assets are promoted throughout the EURO 2028 marketing and communications plans.
- Take a rigorous approach to planning and management, ensuring that objectives are clearly defined, and that appropriate/effective performance and project management processes are in place throughout the entire lifecycle of the project.
- Manage the marketing and communications budget to ensure value for money and creating a campaign that delivers against the GLA EURO 2028 vision and objectives.
Skills, knowledge and experience
To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:
- Experience of managing the development and delivery of a high-profile, multi-channel, marketing and communications plan for a major sport event.
- Knowledge of the structure of London Government, particularly the respective roles of Local Authorities, the Mayor and GLA and National Government; and a good understanding of how sport is managed and administered in London and nationally.
- Experience of operating in a politically sensitive environment and handling communications in this environment.
- Managing a large budget to deliver a high-profile campaign, working with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience of using data, insight and evaluation to inform marketing and communications strategy.
- Experience of planning and delivering operational comms for a major sport event.
Assistant Safety Strategy Manager
Job Description
We are offering two exciting 12-month secondment opportunity for Band 2 roles to join either the SHE Road Safety Strategy Team or the SHE Customer Safety Strategy Team. These roles are ideal for a B2 looking to build experience in preparation for a Band 3 role, or for anyone keen to broaden their skillset and gain exposure to strategic, high-impact work.
The Road Safety Strategy Team is the strategic lead for Vision Zero across London’s road network. The Customer Safety Strategy focuses on reducing the risk of customer injuries across TfL’s networks, with a particular focus on rail.
Both teams support delivery of TfL’s Vision Zero ambition; to eliminate deaths and serious injuries on our transport network.
We will shape your secondment based on your experience, development goals, confidence, and professional profile.
There will be opportunities to work with a wide pool of stakeholders across TfL and beyond, depending on your role and areas of focus. This includes collaboration with a range of internal teams-such as Communications, Strategy, Operations, Surface Planning & Engineering (SPE), Asset Performance Delivery, Investment Planning (IP), and Surface Network Operations (SNO)-as well as external partners including transport operators, City Hall, the Department for Transport (DfT), and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).
All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks, and candidates must be able to demonstrate their legal right to work in the UK. In certain circumstances, TfL may be able to sponsor Skilled Worker visas for roles and individuals that meet the required eligibility criteria, including those covered by transitional rules. Further details can be found here: Our response to visa sponsorship changes.
*Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
Key Accountabilities
- Support the vision, strategy and priority setting for elements of Safety across TfL, including target setting. Manage elements of this, including running workshops, writing up outputs and drafting plans.
- Support the setting of safety policy. Draft policy documents. Make sure the SHE management systems reflects correct versions.
- Assist with the development of robust evidence bases to support interventions to deliver the vision by assessing feasibility and brainstorming ideas. Liaise with the Data & Insight team to ensure these are robust and sustainable.
- Support delivery planning of interventions to establish clear action plans to move the organisation towards the vision. Write up outputs and draft plans to bring interventions together. Liaise with SMEs to establish indicative timescales and feasibility
- Support trials to identify new ways of driving improved performance, working with third parties as needed to drive this. Lead on elements of larger trial or whole smaller trials as appropriate
- Support the development of frameworks and measures to monitor performance. Support target setting and monitoring, highlighting and reporting challenging where targets are missed.
- Be a champion and advocate for safety, health & environment in everything they do, role modelling what it means to make SHE personal
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Skills
- Good collaboration skills, including working across organisational boundaries (essential)
- Ability to understand performance data and trends and translate this into priorities (essential)
- Ability to work in a highly pressurised environment to very tight time constraints and high quality (essential)
- Good written, verbal and presentation skills, with a proven ability to write strategic and analytical reports (essential)
Knowledge
- Understanding of Mayor’s Transport Strategy and TfL’s business priorities (desirable)
- Some knowledge of how to form strategy and progress it into action in a complex organisation (desirable)
- Some understanding of the political framework in which TfL operates (desirable)
- Some knowledge of TfL’s SHE Management system
- Some understanding of engineering, operational and business management requirements in a safety critical environment
Experience
- Experience of setting visions and ambitions in large complex organisations (desirable)