Federal Projects Coordinator: Deliver & Align Stakeholders

Akumen, Inc.; Camp Springs (MD); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Akumen, Inc. is seeking a highly organized Project Coordinator to support planning, execution, and administration of federal program activities.

You will track deliverables, coordinate schedules, maintain documentation, and support effective communication across project teams and customers. In this role you will work closely with project leadership, technical teams, and subcontractors to ensure milestones are met, risks are addressed, and contract requirements are satisfied while maintaining

Qualifications

• Two or more years of experience providing project coordination, program support, or administrative support in a professional environment.
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, project management, information technology, or a related field; equivalent directly related professional experience may be substituted for a degree.
• Demonstrated ability to manage schedules, priorities, action items, documentation, and competing deadlines with strong attention to detail.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with customers, project teams, and organizational leadership.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate project schedules, meetings, action items, deliverables, and administrative activities across multiple workstreams.
• Maintain project documentation, including meeting minutes, status reports, project plans, risk and issue logs, decision records, and standard operating procedures.
• Track project milestones, dependencies, deadlines, and assigned actions, escalating potential delays or risks to project leadership.
• Support the preparation of customer briefings, presentations, reports, and other contract-required deliverables.
• Facilitate communication and information sharing among project leadership, technical teams, customers, subcontractors, and corporate stakeholders.
• Assist with resource coordination, onboarding activities, access requests, training schedules, and other program-support requirements.
• Help ensure project activities and documentation comply with contract requirements, established processes, and organizational quality standards.

Skills

Schedule management

Attention to detail

Documentation

Prioritization

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration/PM/IT

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

SharePoint

Teams

Jira

Smartsheet

Microsoft Project

Job description

Akumen, Inc. is seeking a highly organized Project Coordinator to support planning, execution, and administration of federal program activities.

You will track deliverables, coordinate schedules, maintain documentation, and support effective communication across project teams and customers. In this role you will work closely with project leadership, technical teams, and subcontractors to ensure milestones are met, risks are addressed, and contract requirements are satisfied while maintaining