Your mission
We're looking for a dynamic and detail-oriented design enthusiast for our next Project Coordinator / Junior PM to join our independent design consultancy in Shoreditch.
As a Project Coordinator / Junior PM at Native, you'll be central to the smooth running of both internal and external projects. You'll work closely with the Project Management team to support client programs, as well as with the Senior Leadership and Management teams to help us deliver on internal initiatives.
You'll have the opportunity to liaise between company teams and external partners, coordinate resources to ensure projects remain within scope and budget, and support in client-facing activities including workshop setup and documentation.
Oh, and you'll help deliver pioneering products and services that push boundaries, challenge perceptions, always aiming to change the world.
Your profile
We won't insult you with a spiel about basic organisational skills. That's a given. Instead, here's an idea of the sort of Project Coordinator / Junior PM we hope is reading this:
- Design Enthusiast: You have an avid interest in user-centred design and are driven to support great design outcomes. Maybe you studied design and discovered your real passion is coordinating multi-disciplinary teams. If so, you could just be the perfect person for this role.
- Multitasker: You can proactively juggle multiple projects and priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Communicator: You excel as a point of communication between company teams and external resources.
- Detailed: You coordinate internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets.
- Detailed: You ensure deadlines and deliverables are achieved to the highest level of quality.
- Client-focused: You help create A* experiences for clients, from meeting preparation to workshop setup and note-taking.
- Process-minded: You proactively look for ways to improve current processes and workflows.
- Supportive: You assist the Project Management team with administrative duties like timesheets, resourcing.
- Adaptable: We're not afraid to pivot when needed. If this doesn't fill you with dread, you'll make the work of your life at Native.
- Passionate: You're genuinely excited about design and innovation and can convey that enthusiasm in everything you do.
Why us?
Yes, there's complimentary breakfast and an office dog (when he fancies joining us), but that's not all we have to offer. Here's what you can expect from us:
- Competitive Pay: Fair, reliable, and competitive. You also get a generous pension scheme, which you should definitely make the most of.
- Paid Holidays: 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays. And yes, we expect you to take them all.
- Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity and paternity pay. We want to support new mums and dads, not add stress.
- Health Insurance: Bupa provides private medical insurance, including 24/7 access to GPs, nurses, mental health care, and menopause support.
- Gym Membership: Get 40% off the Hussle Gym network and with provider YuLife you’ll have access to mindfulness and fitness apps, plus the chance to join company-wide challenges where your competitive streak can earn you extra redeemable rewards.
- Personal Development: You'll get loads of in-house opportunities for development and training. We also love a trip to the museum, the odd industry talk, and inviting big thinkers in for fika.
- Company Socials: We throw a couple of big bashes a year and might occasionally block out the afternoon to take a pottery class or be beside the seaside.
- Complimentary Breakfast: We kick off the week with pastries for our all-company meeting but there's always toast, snacks, cereal and a pretty swanky coffee machine at your disposal. And yes, there's vegan butter, lactose-free milk, and gluten-free bread. We got you.
- Sweet Location: Shoreditch is easy to get to, has loads of good places to eat, and plenty of independent shops and market stalls. We love it here.
- Independent Studio: Native is one of the last proper indie studios in the East End. We've been here for twenty years, and we won't be selling up, or selling out, anytime soon.
