Project Coordinator

Overview

Aquent’s leading entertainment client is looking to add a new Project Coordinator to provide support for the project management function for department initiatives and projects to include the planning and management of scope, timelines/plans, risks and quality management across all five areas phases of the project: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/control and project closeout.

Responsibilites: 

• Act as a project management advocate leveraging industry trends, best practices, and other information beneficial to the project management function and leverage that knowledge to improve projects.
• Provide support as needed for PMO-related financial and operational activities.
• Financial Management – Provide support for annual capital planning and forecasts.
• Monitor and distribute project financials to ensure accuracy of budget tracking.
• Provide operational support for monthly forecasts and other financial-related requests and issues from Tech and Finance partners.
• Communicator – Proactively communicate with the project team regarding project changes, issues affecting the execution of deliverables, and the expectations for completing each task.
• Provide central coordination and communication for the team through the duration of assigned projects.
• Facilitates or co-facilitates project meetings to ensure the objectives of the meeting are met.
• Presents work in the form of presentations that tell a clear story about the status of the project as formulated by the collective project team.
• Efficiency Advocate: Attempt to identify efficiency opportunities within a given project and potentially challenging existing processes in order to continuously seek improved project initiation, planning, execution and implementation.

Qualifications:

• 2-3 years providing project management support for projects and initiatives from feasibility through deployment.
• Familiar with financial terms and activities
• Proficient with project management tools, including: Smartsheet, JIRA, MS Project, Teams, Confluence
• Interact with internal and external peers and managers to exchange semi-complex information related to assigned activities
• Lead and maintain departmental centralization programs & initiatives
• Demonstrate early ability to influence internally and externally
• Demonstrate ability to effectively build relationships and partnering
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment and manage multiple priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project Management Professional Certification
• Previous experience with project & portfolio management (demand intake, resource management/forecasting, strategic planning and prioritization with senior leadership, develop and communicate metric driven dashboards)
• Familiarity of business domain knowledge
• Knowledge of the travel and hospitality industry
• Familiarity with statistics, industrial engineering, marketing and sales, pricing, or revenue management analytics
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and experience supporting technical development projects
• Demonstrate understanding of technical and financial domain and able to confidently discuss with project team, neighbors, and stakeholders

Required Education:

• Bachelors, or equivalent work experience

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $28.05 to $31.17 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

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Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! 

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