Project Coordinator

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for a Project Coordinator for a 6 Month Contract opportunity. The position is located in North York, ON.

 

What makes this Special

Our client is one of the largest Banks in North America. With exponential growth and millions of customers and clients who are served through our various businesses: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. Being part of this company is being part of a better Canadian service.

Role

Reporting to the Project Manager, the Project Coordinator key directive is to ensure successful administration and coordination of project tasks on behalf of the project manager. The Project Coordinater works closely with the Project Manager to ensure that the assigned tasks (including but not limited to documentation, issue follow up, coordination with internal and external parties, and project-related communication) are completed in accordance with the standards defined in Project. The Project Coordinator consults with and coordinates the efforts of internal and external parties including the IT department staff, business resources and third party vendor resources to complete the project deliverables.

 

Interfaces

• Program Director, Project Manager and Project Team members
• IT expertise center resources
• Business Community
• Infrastructure, Application, Service and Software Vendors.

Responsibilities

• Prepares under the supervision of the Project Manager and Program Director most project-related communications
• Co-ordinate Meetings
• Captures and distributes meeting minutes, including action items, person responsible and deadline
• Reconciles resource planned hours to actual hours
• Reconciles budgeted spend to actual spend
• Updates budget template
• Maintains project team calendar and document repository (SharePoint site)
• Follows up with individuals responsible for Issue resolution and risk mitigation plans including recording detailed results and tracking
• Prepares and/or edits a variety of project artifacts including Meeting Minutes, Presentations, the Project Plan, and various Project related spreadsheets
• Identifies and escalates critical issues to manager

Requirements

This position requires a competent level of communication and organizational skills that is guided by either an experienced Project Manager, or Program Director. Courtesy, tact and diplomacy are required in dealing with colleagues in day to day working relationships.

• Well-organized and detailed-oriented
• Flexibility to handle several competing demands
• Ability to get up-to-speed with project, business and technical terminology and content quickly
• Ability to co-ordinate project activities with a diverse group of individuals
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of people both verbally and in writing
• Ability to task-switch and context-switch
• Ability to collect and analyze complex data
• Ability to build strong relationships across the organization and with vendors
• Ability to exercise good judgment and self-manage
• Strong skills with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Project
• Chairing meetings
• Taking detailed meeting minutes, and ability to translate concepts and ideas into powerpoint presentations

Education & Job Knowledge

• Post secondary education equivalent to a college diploma in Computer Science, Business or equivalent
• Knowledge of project delivery methodologies

 

Experience

• 1 - 2 years experience in the delivery of diverse, and/or complex rollout IT projects (either application or infrastructure)

Keywords: project coordinator, IT, application, infrastructure, and Software Vendors

 

How to Apply

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