Qualifications

Job Overview:

Under the general direction of the Senior Manager ITS Projects, the Project Management Coordinator is responsible for coordinating activities of IT project management, demand management, resource capacity management and portfolio reporting. This role will work across multiple functions to ensure superior operational coordination and project progression using ITS Project Management methodology, policies, processes, standards, and tools.

What you will be doing:

• Assists project managers with coordinating various activities to ensure progression of project schedule within budget and the defined quality standards.
• Works with the project managers to monitor project schedules and conduct analysis on slipped activities, milestones, and dependencies. Research variances and report on or escalate findings.
• Serves as a liaison between the ITS Projects and other departments throughout the project lifecycle to ensure resolution of issues and completion of tasks.
• Creates and tracks requisitions, purchase orders, requests for payments, project submittals and complete project close-out documents/manuals.
• Maintains new project setups in time accounting and creates checklists for all projects to verify information by project and type
• Creates and distributes weekly resource demand reporting – future bookings, capacity, availability (or bench) reporting, variance reports, and other metrics as required by management. Facilitates project coordination and intake sessions at the initiation of project start.
• Provides training, direction, and mentorship of basic and advanced project management concepts to project managers/teams, includes sharing of approaches and artifacts
• Maintains project management system including project related historical documentation, project schedules and milestone due dates

What you need:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical related field such as CS, CIS, MIS or related field.
• Four years relevant project administration/portfolio coordination experience creating, modifying, monitoring, and entering status in project work plans.
• Any equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be substituted for the above.
• Possession of a valid Class C driver's license

What we desire:

• Project management or project specialization certification (or effort in process) highly desirable.
• Knowledge of resource management – forecasting, allocating staff, assessing staff utilization.
• Experience leading project teams.

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