As a Project Coordinator, you will assist in planning, organizing, and executing project activities, ensuring effective communication, coordination, and documentation to facilitate the successful completion of projects within an organization. Responsibilities: Responsible for coordinating meetings and developing strategies to see projects through from beginning to end. Duties may include taking minutes at meetings, receiving and filing project documents, creating and maintaining project schedules, creating responsibility lists for those who are involved in the project, and compiling summaries. Other job duties could include keeping track of documents, like purchase orders, budgets, payrolls and contracts. Work closely with project manager to ensure that project objectives are met. Some positions might require knowledge of workflow or strategy software, such as Microsoft Project and creating presentations in PowerPoint.
The Senior Project Coordinator supports the execution of medium-scale projects by coordinating activities under the direction of a Project Manager or Program Lead. May lead specific workstreams or sub-projects with clearly defined scope and oversight by coordinating project activities, managing timelines, and ensuring alignment with business and technology goals. This role supports both traditional (waterfall) and agile (iterative) delivery models, facilitating planning, execution, and delivery across cross-functional teams. In an agile environment, the Senior Project Coordinator plays a key role in planning, Standups, and managing dependencies. The role requires strong communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills to support project leaders and ensure successful outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate medium-scale projects and contribute to large-scale initiatives under the direction of project or team leaders.
- Facilitate project start-up activities, including requirements gathering, resource onboarding, and project documentation.
- Monitor, track, and report progress against project plans, including scope, schedule, cost, and quality metrics.
- Monitors and documents project risks and issues, and facilitates resolution efforts in collaboration with the Project Manager. Escalates unresolved or high-impact risks appropriately
- Support and coordinate agile activities such as PI planning, Standup, and status reporting.
- Manage cross-team dependencies and ensure alignment across agile and waterfall workstreams.
- Assist in the development and execution of testing strategies, including defect tracking and resolution.
- Prepares and maintains project dashboards and reports to support project tracking and decision-making by project leadership.
Education: -
Minimum: 1 to 2 years of experience in project coordination or management, including exposure to both waterfall and agile methodologies. The ideal candidate would have 3 to 5 years of experience.
Preferred: Bachelor s degree; certifications such as PMP and/or Agile Certifications; working knowledge of enterprise project tools such as Clarity and Jira.
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