Hybrid Workday Project Coordinator | Agile & ADO Expert

State of Washington; Olympia (WA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

The Office of Financial Management (OFM) in Olympia, WA is seeking a Workday Project Coordinator to drive technology projects within the Workday Services program. You’ll coordinate tasks, monitor progress, manage risks, and facilitate communication across agencies to ensure priorities, timelines, and deliverables align.

You’ll work with Agile practices and Azure DevOps, supporting governance, status reports, and stakeholder meetings.

Qualifications

• Advanced working knowledge of Agile project management methodologies, particularly Kanban.
• Advanced experience administering or supporting Azure DevOps (ADO), including work item tracking, dashboards, reporting, documentation, and process development.
• Demonstrated strong ability to identify project risks and issues, and schedule impacts; coordinate mitigation strategies and recognize when escalation is needed for decisions involving high costs, scope changes, or downstream impacts.
• Experience coordinating project schedules, dependencies, and deliverables across teams with shared resources and competing priorities, including facilitating team huddles, release planning, meetings, and follow-up activities.
• Experience in collaborating with technical teams, business partners, and agency representatives to clarify project needs, maintain accurate project documentation, and support shared understanding of project requirements, priorities, and timelines.
• The ability to communicate complex project information clearly and accurately in written and verbal formats, including project status reports, executive presentations, release notes, and risk or issue updates.
• The ability to take action to learn and grow.

Responsibilities

• Manage IT projects by implementing new technologies and integrating with existing systems and applications.
• Identify problems and drive resolution by conducting risk assessments, identifying critical issues, documenting, and creating mitigation strategies.
• Lead for teams’ support in Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Coordinate communication of key project information to stakeholders.
• Oversee timely project communications to include status reports, ADO dashboards and reports, and release notes.
• Collaborate with the One Washington program to clearly define project needs, issues, cycles, processes, tools, technology, and expectations.
• Act as backup for the Project Manager and Release Manager on an as-needed basis.

Skills

Agile project management

Kanban

Azure DevOps (ADO)

Risk assessment & mitigation

Cross-team collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Willingness to learn

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

The Office of Financial Management (OFM) in Olympia, WA is seeking a Workday Project Coordinator to drive technology projects within the Workday Services program. You’ll coordinate tasks, monitor progress, manage risks, and facilitate communication across agencies to ensure priorities, timelines, and deliverables align.

You’ll work with Agile practices and Azure DevOps, supporting governance, status reports, and stakeholder meetings.