Project Coordinator / Business Analyst
Location: Detroit, MI
Duration: 1 year
Project Coordinators / Business Analysts are individuals within the IT Delivery Management job family responsible for working closely with the Delivery Leads for successful completion of projects.
They follow and maintain project management standards and procedures. They are responsible along with the Delivery Lead to perform tasks like work plan management, resource plan maintenance, SharePoint maintenance support, Budget and Financial Reporting and Project dashboard and CIMS maintenance.
They schedule meetings and document meeting minutes, meeting action items and follow-up. They document, track, issues and risks; including timely update of issue/risk logs. They document risk mitigation plans and issue resolution action plans.
Under general direction and coaching, adheres to client IS Project Management standards, policies, procedures, and methodologies. Performs complete range of standard administrative duties by utilizing appropriate PC and web applications to prepare and distribute correspondence, status reports, minutes, numerical data, tracking of project assignments, charts and forms in an accurate manner.
Assists project and program managers in creating and maintaining project planning documents and reports. Provides project metrics, resource plan, project staffing plan to DL for analysis and reporting to IT leadership.
- Work Plan Management
- Resource Plan Maintenance
- Budget and Financial Reporting
- Demonstrated excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong organizational and follow-through skills, and particularly strong attention to detail.
- Demonstrated flexibility, self-discipline and ability to work independently, as well as within a group.
- Ability to work effectively with multiple project/program managers and clients.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and timeframes.
- Ability to interact effectively with client representatives at various levels.
- Ability to perform as a self-starter, with motivation to consistently produce high quality results.
- Strong experience in working MS Excel to Monitor financials and report any discrepancies to DL
- Edit/run weekly financial burn reports to DL,Edit/run resource plans
Preferred Skills/Experience
- Knowledge across multiple Agile frameworks (Scrum, XP, Kanban, etc.)
- Possess thorough knowledge of PMI standards and terminology (including PMBOK)
- Knowledge of project management tools and methodologies.
High proficiency in Microsoft Project (MSP), MS SharePoint, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. MSP Server experience is preferred.
Education/Certifications
- Bachelor's degree in related field preferred.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of administrative / project support experience. and knowledge of project management required.
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Last updated on Feb 27, 2019