Job Description
Role Description and Requirements
The Project Coordinator is responsible for supporting the project delivery team as well as the Project Management Office (PMO) team and will report directly to the Associate Director PMO. The Project Coordinator is an active and essential member of the delivery team and provides real-time project support to the business.
Throughout the project lifecycle, the Project Coordinator will be required to ensure projects are in line with the CornerStone Delivery Framework by ensuring project governance is applied, assist with resource management of the delivery team, as well as reporting any internal project ownership risks and issues to the Associate Director PMO in a timely manner.
The Project Coordinator’s tasks will include, but are not limited to:
* Monitoring project delivery, including policing deliverable due dates, updating light touch project schedules, and supporting consultants with handovers from sales or internal consultants at interim stages, and delivery
* Project delivery support and coordination:
* Using Wrike to administer and coordinate projects with project owners
* Supporting new project creation and set up, and engaging with Project Owners to create the initial simple project schedule, keeping the schedules up to date throughout the project lifecycle
* Undertaking weekly PMO monitoring reviews of projects with the Project Owners on a one-to-one basis, whilst building good working relationships
* Supporting Directors in internal weekly project delivery team update meetings and taking action as required
* Reviewing PMO dashboards and reports and flagging issues
* Monitoring that project risks, actions, issues, and changes are registered appropriately
* Reviewing project statuses and identifying actions
* Monitoring all project document deliverables to ensure timely and complete delivery
* Managing permissions of the project folders and documents on project sites to ensure information security
* Arranging and directing internal project handovers between changing project owners
* Conducting various project stage/health check reviews in line with the requirements of the CornerStone Delivery Framework to ensure governance and risk management
* Supporting the lessons learned process for both projects and the wider business
* Managing and actioning the internal project closure process
* Where assigned, provide required support to specific individual projects, including status reports
* Undertake delivery team resource management using Wrike data, providing Directors with early warnings of upcoming bottlenecks or under utilised resource that may require recruitment or readjustment of work distribution
* Implementing policies for project folder housekeeping
* Supporting development of templates for documentation and project sites
* Assisting in reviewing processes and contribute ideas towards continual improvement and efficiency
* Supporting the PMO team with ad hoc requirements
* Undertaking periodic reviews to ensure that the document management process is still working well and meeting the needs of the company, the project teams, and all stakeholders
The above description details the role’s core activities and is not inclusive of all duties required as a team member. Employees will be required to undertake other duties and responsibilities to support the business objectives as directed.