Job Details
Job Ref#: 45217
Duration: 6+ Months (Contract)
Pay Rate: $35.00 - $40.00 per hour/W2
LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY!!, We are NOT accepting candidates willing to relocate
HYBRID: Must be able to work ONSITE each week / HOURS: M-F 8AM to 4:30PM
Project Coordinator Role
The Project Coordinator will support the PMO, consisting of two Senior Project Managers and the PMO Director, in planning, coordinating, tracking, and reporting project activities. This entry-level role will maintain project documentation, track action items, risks, and issues, and coordinate communications to support successful project delivery.
The coordinator will collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, vendors, and leadership, and participate in meetings across multiple workstreams. This position offers an opportunity to build foundational project management experience while helping maintain project scope, schedule, quality, and stakeholder alignment. Occasional schedule flexibility may be required to support project needs.
Responsibilities
- Keep project documentation accurate, organized, and current.
- Complete assigned coordination activities on time.
- Maintain reliable action item, risk, issue, and dependency tracking.
- Support project managers with day-to-day project coordination.
- Provide clear and timely project updates.
- Support effective meetings and follow-through.
- Build positive working relationships with project teams and stakeholders.
- Identify and communicate potential concerns before they affect scope, schedule, or delivery.
- Maintain project timelines, milestones, and deliverable trackers.
- Coordinate project meetings, including scheduling, agendas, attendance, and follow-up.
- Prepare meeting notes and document decisions, action items, owners, and due dates.
- Monitor action items and follow up with responsible team members.
- Assist with tracking project dependencies and hand-offs between teams.
- Support Agile ceremonies, including stand-ups, backlog reviews, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, when applicable.
- Maintain project plans, status reports, RAID logs, decision logs, stakeholder lists, and other project artifacts.
- Collect project updates from workstream leads and team members.
- Escalate overdue items, emerging risks, and schedule concerns to the project manager.
- Support the development of presentations, dashboards, and executive reporting materials.
- Ensure project documents are organized, current, and accessible.
- Help coordinate cross-functional meetings and workstream activities.
- Assist with stakeholder follow-up and response tracking.
- Help identify communication gaps, resource constraints, and unresolved decisions.
- Assist with identifying and documenting risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
- Maintain the RAID log and support regular reviews with the project team.
- Track mitigation plans and follow up on assigned actions.
- Document requested changes to scope, schedule, requirements, or deliverables.
- Bring potential impacts to the project manager’s attention.
- Support change control and governance activities as directed.
- Manage program calendar, distribution lists, shared folders, and SharePoint site.
- Track project related training, onboarding, access, and participation requirements.
- Assist with procurement, invoicing, timesheet, and vendor coordination activities when applicable.
- Support project close-out activities, including lessons learned, and phase transition materials.
- Perform other project coordination duties as assigned.
Required Skills / Experience
- Some experience performing as Project Coordinator or Project Analyst/Administrator for IT programs.
- Some experience with administrative coordination, project support, operations, business analysis, or team coordination.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments and competing deadlines.
- Very strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work effectively with individuals at different organizational levels.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to maintain confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.
Preferred Qualifications
- Internship, course work, or experience in project management and/or business operations.
- Familiarity with project management concepts, including scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and change management.
- Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or other delivery methodologies.
- Experience using project management or collaboration tools such as Planview, AirTable, Microsoft Planner, Jira, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, or similar platforms.
- CAPM, Scrum certification, or other project management training.
Calance Benefits Offerings
- EPO/PPO Medical Plans
- 401K Retirement vesting program (VOYA)
- Flex Spending Plan
- Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD or LTD plans