Required Skills:
- 2–4-year Project Coordination/Project Management experience required.
- Exposure to technology projects and project management
- Advanced Skills in MS Office applications including Excel, Work, and Outlook.
- Experience with PPM tools a plus.
- Developing understanding of financial processes; ability to understand, analyze and populate financial reports.
- Basic knowledge and understanding of project management industry standard framework and the development life cycle.
- Ability to work at the direction of lead project manager and aggressively support tracking project tasks and timelines.
- Thorough documentation skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate well with customers and co-workers.
- Strong team collaboration skills.
- Curiousity for learning, willing and open to asking questions to seek to understand
- Ability to effectively communicate (written, verbal, and presentation).
Project coordinators work with various members of the project team and the client to develop a timeline, create schedules, and oversee progress to make sure goals are met on time. Project coordinators utilize spreadsheets and project management tools to track budgets, key dates, status and other information. Project coordinators may manage small, single technology domain projects independently or work under the direction of a larger project management team in which they support the lead Project Manager with assigned tasks.
This job description describes the general nature and level of work required by the position. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of qualifications, skills, duties, responsibilities or working conditions of the job. The job description is subject to change with or without notice, and Management reserves the right to add, modify or remove any qualification or duty. Nothing in this job description changes the existing at-will employment relationship between the Company and the employee occupying the position.
Job Responsibilities:
- Tracks documentation deliverables for multiple projects
- Gathers documentation from the customer
- Assists with or manages the oversight of all aspects of project life cycle to include initiation, planning, execution, controlling and closing; taking project through final implementation
- Must be familiar with project scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member, to effectively assist in coordinating the activities of the team
- Ensures timely and effective delivery of the solutions within scope and relative to desired objectives
- Follows best practices and ensure that all validation and quality requirements are met and documented
- Maintains Project Management standard best practices and methodologies to drive efficiency and consistency among projects
- Assists in documenting project risks, assumptions, and constraints and aid in implementing approved actions and workarounds designed to mitigate project risk events
- Monitors status of all identified risks in order to minimize the impact of the risks on the project
- Financial management of project budgets to ensure all budgets, forecasts and costs are measured, tracked and reported for project success
- Measures project performance using appropriate tools and techniques, identify and quantify variances and perform corrective actions with transparency to all stakeholders
- Documents criteria for success with the help of Project Mangers or other Leads
- Assists in managing changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project cost
- Ensures that all issues are captured and resolved and that resolutions are documented and communicated
- Actively participates in project meetings and leads meetings if necessary
- Provides input regularly for status reports including portfolio review
