Project Coordinator

Project Overview

The Project Coordinator role will support Project Delivery Manager and IT Program Managers on projects within the portfolio. Responsibilities will include governance and reporting and providing information for effective management decision-making. Both waterfall and agile project delivery approaches may be used.

Job Functions & Responsibilities

• Ability to coordinate multiple projects and lead small projects as assigned. • Act as the bridge between the business and IT in support of the PM. • Support the IT workstream and documents of projects via IT PMO processes, procedures, and tools for assigned projects. • Monitor the project schedule and deliverables. Track progress and report updates to the project/program manager. • Recognize problems or situations that will or may impact the project delivery. • Coordinate the project under the supervision of the project manager. • Utilize IT project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid) to drive technical solution delivery. • Assist in fulfilling requirements for the IT PMO and IT Governance process • Work collaboratively with project teams, various IT teams, and related business unit staff. • Promote and maintain communication between project team members and stakeholders and manage expectations. • Prepare correspondence, presentations and/or reports as required. • Follow-up on correspondence and outstanding requests for resolution.

Skills

• Understand the software development process and experience in IT project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall). • Strong and tested project coordinator skills including organization skills, communication skills, daily standups, creation and presentation of data (updates, status, etc.), vendor management. • Organized, good communicator, deadline driven, planner, problem solver, and agile. • Ability to promote and maintain a positive and inclusive work environment with project team members, co-workers, management, and vendors by behaving, collaborating, and communicating in a manner consistent with professional standards. • Superior interpersonal skills to ensure open communication across project teams. Ability to handle broad-based, often complex, communication for internal and/or external audiences. • Outstanding record of project coordination success • Intermediate-Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint (i.e. M365) skills • Power BI and DevOps would be nice to have

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or technical field. • Minimum 3 years of increasing responsible experience, including successfully coordinating various IT projects in a matrixed environment.