Do you have a sharp eye for detail and want to help deliver programmes that change lives?
Project Support Officer (Northern Futures)
Salary: £25,887 - £27,385 per annum
Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Fixed Term until 31 March 2027
Location: Lobley Hill, Gateshead NE11
About the Employer
Our client is a long-established environmental and community charity with over 30 years of experience creating greener, healthier and more resilient places across the region. Their mission centres on Creating Better Places, Improving People’s Prospects, and Promoting Greener Living, helping communities thrive no matter the challenges they face.
They deliver hundreds of locally-led projects each year, including initiatives that support young people into education, training and employment, helping them overcome barriers, build life skills, and reach their full potential.
About the Role
This charity is looking for a highly organised and detail focused Project Support Officer to join their Northern Futures team. This role is central to ensuring the smooth administration, financial accuracy and compliance of a large, funded programme delivered across the North East.
Job Purpose
Working closely with the Project Manager, you will coordinate and process funding claims, manage programme documentation, and liaise with prime funding organisations to ensure deadlines, quality standards and contractual requirements are consistently met. Northern Futures is funded by the North East Combined Authority as part of Trailblazer funding.
Key Responsibilities
*Compile, process and submit accurate funding claims in line with programme guidelines
*Collect, check and quality assure funding documentation from delivery staff
*Maintain secure manual and electronic filing and archiving systems
*Train delivery staff on funding documentation requirements and deadlines
*Manage internal and external databases to track submissions and performance
*Reconcile historic claims and support financial monitoring and forecasting
*Liaise with Prime Funders on invoicing, MI, compliance and payment schedules
*Produce reports, meeting minutes and management information as required
*Prepare documentation for audits and support resolution of non compliance
*Manage petty cash in line with organisational financial procedures
*Support delivery teams with resources, inductions and ongoing administration
What They Are Looking For
They are looking for an enthusiastic individual with experience of managing a varied workload of administrative and financial tasks prioritising to meet target deadlines, and dealing with external clients. Excellent IT skills are essential as well as having effective verbal, written and presentation communications skills
You’ll thrive working in a busy and friendly environment and have the ability to maintain confidentiality as required. You will also have the ability to work on your own initiative as well as part of a team.
Closing date: Thursday 14th May 2026
Please note, should the employer receive a high volume of applications, they may look to close the role early, therefore we recommend an early application.
Interested?
To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.
This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The employer wants you to be yourself and they value everything that makes you unique. They recognise and celebrate your difference and together you will make the organisation a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer they offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
The employer ensures that they provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that they organise. They are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Their safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people they appoint are suitable to work with children, young people and adults
This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
No agencies please.