PMO Project Coordinator

This is a remote position.

PMO Project Coordinator

Job description: Responsible for managing project management office activities in the areas of process documentation, template management, time tracking, and project reporting.  Includes understanding the different tools that support those activities, such as but not necessarily JIRA, Confluence, Task Management System, Service Now and Sharepoint.  Includes opportunities to lead small internal projects, and requires good customer relations skills working with the State client’s project management office teams.

• Experience working in a project driven environment 
  
• Good understanding of a key phases of a systems related life cycle (SDLC)
  
• Experience with project process documentation materials
  
• Strong Excel skills including detailed data analysis and pivot tables
  
• Strong communications skills including client interaction and meeting facilitation
  
• Strong experience with SharePoint, Teams, and other Office tools
  
• Experience working with Atlassian tools, JIRA or Confluence, wo  uld be a plus
  
• Manages first level to mid-level client delivery relationships
  
• Manages internal low-risk projects
  
• Two or more years of experience a in project management environment
  

Essential Job Functions

• Participates in reviewing existing project management office, change management procedures, for improvement
  
• Helps maintain all of the PMO documentation, templates, processes primarily in Sharepoint.
  
• Generates PMO reports for delivery to the stakeholders, including external State client.
  
• Reviews the gates and checkpoints for each project, to be sure all deliverables were created, and approved by stakeholders. Similar to an audit.
  
• Reviews the issues and risks entered by the project management team, and helps escalate, and update as appropriate.
  
• Manages client, company and project team expectations for agreed upon project performance by obtaining, providing and monitoring project metrics.
  
• Supports monthly project billing to the client by verifying that time tracking hours were charged to the appropriate project.
  
• Assigns project management office tasks to the relatively small project management and quality management teams
  
• Responsible for project related data analysis such as performance to budget, cost to estimate, schedule performance and other.
  

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

• Two years of experience in project management, whether formal or informal. 
  
• Experience working with project management methodology within a technical environment. 
  
• Experience working with project management tool sets, preferably Jira, Confluence.  Other similar tools acceptable.
  
• Change management processes/templates.
  
• Strong Excel skills including detailed data analysis and pivot tables.
  
• Effective communication skills working with predominantly remote resources, as opposed to in the office.
  
• Experience or ability to manage smaller, low risk projects.
  

Other Qualifications

• Good comprehension skills to adapt to the processes and mentor the work of less experienced personnel
  
• Good communication skills
  
• Interpersonal and presentation skills for interacting with team members and clients
  
• Creative thinking and problem solving skills
  
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and switch between tasks quickly
  

Work Environment

• Remote teleworker is acceptable within the USA