Project Coordinator at TEKsystems

We are searching for a qualified Project Coordinator to support a financial services client - specifically their PMO department.

The ideal candidate can come from any industry, but they need to perform at a high level. Client prefers candidates local to San Diego but is open to anywhere in the United States.

Responsibilities:

• Program/project budget and forecast tracking/reporting oversight.
• Project bi-weekly status report quality review and timely submission by portfolio projects.
• PM/BA support and guidance on PMO administrative and operational delivery.
• Portfolio lead support across program and project administration ensuring timely reporting and adherence to PMO standard and best practices.
• Gather program/project progress, risk, issues, and decisions preparing presentation materials for project updates to middle and upper management.
• Partner with PMO Operations to train, facilitate, and track adoption of PMO standard operating procedures and best practices.

Specific responsibilities:

• Communicate status of budget within/across departments.
• Assist in gathering data, preparing presentations, and completing data analysis.
• Use status reports and other communications to elicit feedback and incremental modifications and optimizations to the overall list of activities for the team.
• Project Meeting Management: Create Agenda, document meeting minutes, and keep time to ensure all agenda items are covered.
• Highly effective organization of meetings to ensure flow, participation, progress, proactive mitigation of risks and issues.
• Plan and direct schedules to ensure the project is completed on time.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of project management experience.
• Proven work experience as a Project Coordinator or similar role.
• An ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedules and step-by-step action plans.
• Familiarity with risk management and quality assurance control.
• Excellent organizational, analytical and time management skills.
• The ability to communicate/present information to employees on all levels and in small or large groups.
• Demonstrated ability to identify solutions to problems, listen actively, exercise sound judgment to make decisions.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Jira/Confluence – 3 years experience or equivalent.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite with particular focus on MS PowerPoint, MS Project, and MS Excel.
• Hands-on experience with project management, collaboration, and tracking tools (JIRA, Confluence, TestRail).

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.