Our direct client is seeking a Project Coordinator for a 12-month contract role.
This position will be a hybrid remote/on-site role with the Columbia, SC location.
Job Description: Self-motivated and serve as highly organized project coordinator responsible for collecting and reporting corporate wide project metrics and managing activities of small, typically lower risk, profile projects.
This position also provides single point of contact for PMO Tools.
By working with the various Information Technology and Business teams, support the unique coordination, communication, and reporting needs for projects.
Other primary functions include creating and supporting SharePoint sites, updating and maintaining SDLC, reporting, Azure DevOps support, and maintenance of internal project dashboards.
Additionally, the Project Coordinator works to support the administrative needs of project managers including editing and updating Project Sites and other tools used to manage projects.
The Project Coordinator position is viewed as an apprentice to a Project Manager position.
Major Duties and Responsibilities (listed by order of importance)
Reporting and SDLC Project Tracking:
- Work to generate weekly, monthly, and periodic reports for tracking project progress, budget, at risk, and other exception reports as needed.
- Update and support People Soft, Share Point sites, and other workflow artifacts for projects within the Project Portfolio.
Project Prioritization and Governance Committee and Project Execution and Advisory Committee Support:
- Attends committee meetings, drafts and publishes minutes, agendas, and other supporting materials for the Project Prioritization and Governance Committee and Project Execution and Advisory Committee.
Project Management Life Cycle:
- Responsible for working within the PMO to update and keep current all templates, artifacts, and source documents that support the PMO and SDLC methodologies.
- As needed, update and modify Share Point websites to ensure current templates are used and available by PMO staff.
Communication:
- As an effective communicator, bring teams together and yield positive results.
Uses various communication skills to resolve conflicts that may arise.
- Makes suggested process improvement recommendations.
- Participates in external department business discovery and organizational job knowledge sharing events to broaden awareness and effectiveness.
For example, job shadowing within other departments or in the field.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, or other related field.
- Minimum of 3 years of related work experience.
- Knowledge of project monitoring and control techniques.
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to team and management.
- Focuses on customer service, demonstrating a positive influence on cross-team working relationships.
- Works to continually build knowledge and skills.
- Excellent command of Microsoft Project Server, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project Web Access, Microsoft Project Professional, Tableau, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Share Point, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Adobe, and Visio experience required.
- Able to manage competing demands; excellent organizational skills.