5th November 2011, 01:17 PM
RedEarth Wrote:I would have thought PO meant project officer and SPO meant senior project officer, i.e. one step down (Dino's underlining) from manager.
Seem to recall that's what I've been saying? - explain that to PP could you?
Sites traditionally had site directors, who got the funding, dealt with outside influences and stuck their name on the final publication, and supervisors who actually dug and recorded the thing, all they've really done is change the job titles (managers and POs) and dumped more work on the POs, presumably so that the 'managers' can 'direct' more projects at a time, thereby reducing the wages bill (shift more work down to a lower pay grade).
Agree that the meaning of PO/SPO seems to vary quite a lot from unit to unit, with varying levels of responsibility/expectation, although the ultimate control of finances, contracts, spending oodles of money etc usually seems to be retained firmly under 'management' control, which suits me fine since I'm a natural site no2 (dig and record the thing, can't be ar**d with spending half my day on the phone arranging meetings and finding out why the bog hasn't been pumped out and Johnie's pay was 26p out, that's manager stuff)