Project Coordinator - Hybrid
- Nashville, TN, United States
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- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
**** Hybrid ** Webcam interview; very long term project; initial PO for 1 year with multiyear extensions *** *** Hybrid
Position Summary
The Project Manager Coordinator will support the PMO, consisting of two Sr. PM's and PMO Director, in planning, coordinating, tracking, and reporting project activities. This entry-level role helps maintain project documentation, action items, risks, issues, and communications to support successful project delivery. The Project Manager Coordinator works collaboratively with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, vendors, and leadership. The role is intended to build foundational project management experience while helping protect project scope, schedule, quality, and stakeholder alignment.
Key Responsibilities Project Coordination
- Support project managers with day-to-day project coordination.
- Maintain project timelines, milestones, and deliverable trackers.
- Coordinate project meetings, including scheduling, agendas, attendance, and follow-up.
- Prepare meeting notes and document decisions, action items, owners, and due dates.
- Monitor action items and follow up with responsible team members.
- Assist with tracking project dependencies and handoffs between teams.
- Support Agile ceremonies, including stand-ups, backlog reviews, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, when applicable.
Project Documentation and Reporting
- Maintain project plans, status reports, RAID logs, decision logs, stakeholder lists, and other project artifacts.
- Collect project updates from workstream leads and team members.
- Escalate overdue items, emerging risks, and schedule concerns to the project manager.
- Support the development of presentations, dashboards, and executive reporting materials.
- Ensure project documents are organized, current, and accessible.
Stakeholder and Team Support
- Help coordinate cross-functional meetings and workstream activities.
- Assist with stakeholder follow-up and response tracking.
- Help identify communication gaps, resource constraints, and unresolved decisions.
Risk, Issue, and Change Support
- Assist with identifying and documenting risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
- Maintain the RAID log and support regular reviews with the project team.
- Track mitigation plans and follow up on assigned actions.
- Document requested changes to scope, schedule, requirements, or deliverables.
- Bring potential impacts to the project manager's attention.
- Support change control and governance activities as directed.
Administrative and Operational Support
- Manage program calendar, distribution lists, shared folders, and SharePoint site.
- Track project-related training, onboarding, access, and participation requirements.
- Assist with procurement, invoicing, timesheet, and vendor coordination activities when applicable.
- Support project closeout activities, including lessons learned, and phase transition materials.
- Perform other project coordination duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications
- Very strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Some experience with administrative coordination, project support, operations, business analysis, or team coordination.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments and competing deadlines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with individuals at different organizational levels.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.
- Ability to maintain confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
Preferred Qualifications
- Internship, coursework, or experience in project management and/or business operations.
- Familiarity with project management concepts, including scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and change management.
- Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or other delivery methodologies.
- Experience using project management or collaboration tools such as Planview, AirTable, Microsoft Planner, Jira, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, or similar platforms.
- CAPM, Scrum certification, or other project management training.
Core Competencies
- Organization and follow-through
- Communication and active listening
- Attention to detail
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Time management
- Problem-solving
- Adaptability
- Professional judgment
- Customer and stakeholder service
- Accountability
More about this job
Skills
- Reporting
- Documentation
- Leadership
- Project management
- Scheduling
- Presentation skills
- Communication skills
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Onboarding
- Procurement
- Organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Business analysis
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Teams
- Change management
- Agile
- Scrum
- Collaboration
- Airtable
- Jira
- Microsoft Azure
- DevOps
- CAPM
- Active listening
- Teamwork
- Time management
- Problem solving
- Adaptability