Portfolio Project Coordinator for Strategic Programs

Diversity Dashboard; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working opportunities

Generous pension scheme

Staff discounts

Professional development opportunities

Family-friendly policies

Job summary

AMRC is seeking a capable Project Coordinator to support a broad portfolio of programmes and portfolios. You will work with Project Management and Development teams to deliver multi-group projects across varying durations and ensure timely, accurate reporting.

The role requires strong organisation, experience with MS Office and Project, and familiarity with waterfall, hybrid and agile approaches. This is a full‑time post with a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Significant Project Coordinator / project support experience.
• Client facing / customer service experience at team level.
• MS Office suite including Microsoft Project (intermediate - advanced).
• Excellent written and verbal communication, report writing.
• Extremely organised with methodical, detail‑oriented approach.
• Ability to track and support finances within a large portfolio.
• Experience with waterfall, hybrid and agile approaches.
• Awareness of Risk Management.
• PM qualification PFQ/Prince2/Agile or demonstrable equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Support planning, administration and delivery of team projects within the AMRC portfolio.
• Research, collate, organise and edit material for reports and documents.
• Interpret and communicate results to Project Manager and stakeholders.
• Present work and data results to internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist with securing key partnership projects and maintaining partner relationships.
• Plan and prioritise tasks with an eye to longer-term issues and deadlines.
• Monitor milestones, finance, resourcing and quality across a large portfolio.
• Support preparation for presentations to internal/external audiences.
• Carry out other duties commensurate with grade and remit.

Skills

Project coordination

Customer service

MS Project

Communication skills

Organised

Finance tracking

Problem solving

PM methodologies

Risk management

PM qualification

Education

Project management qualification PFQ/Prince2/Agile

Tools

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Project

Job description

AMRC is seeking a capable Project Coordinator to support a broad portfolio of programmes and portfolios. You will work with Project Management and Development teams to deliver multi-group projects across varying durations and ensure timely, accurate reporting.

The role requires strong organisation, experience with MS Office and Project, and familiarity with waterfall, hybrid and agile approaches. This is a full‑time post with a competitive benefits package.