IT Project Coordinator (Contractor)

IT Project Coordinator (Contractor)

Employment Type: Contract (6 months to start)

Workplace Type: Hybrid (1-2 days onsite a week)

Location: Los Angeles, CA (South Bay)

Industry: Retail

Pay Rate: $35-$38/hr.

SUMMARY:

We have an urgent/immediate need for a Project Coordinator to support our Finance Transformation project. This person would be supporting one of our client's resident project managers with all the meetings and working sessions that make up a typical transformational project.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Participate in project design meetings engaging with stakeholders to understand, gather, and clarify project scope, objectives, and requirements to create and maintain comprehensive project artifacts (Project Charters, Business Cases, Requirements Documentation, Project Plans, resourcing, process maps, data flow diagrams, etc.)

Provide support to project management leadership including coordination of working session facilitation tasks with the primary project manager

Scheduling and supporting facilitation of meetings and working sessions

Support facilitation of project design meetings ensuring proper attendance of the right

Recording meetings/working sessions

Saving and managing recordings off for all sessions

Tracking attendance and duration for key participants in calls leveraging call statistics stakeholders by proactively reaching out to any who may be absent but that are needed in each meeting

Onboarding/Offboarding of all 3rd party Consultants

Backing up PMs from 2 related project workstreams recording meeting sessions as needed

REQUIREMENTS:

BS/BA Degree and several years of professional experience working in a Technical Project Coordinator or similar roles

Demonstrated ability to be highly collaborative, self-starter, and strong people manager during cross-functional projects with various levels or personnel, and is capable and comfortable working with and managing stakeholders and third-party consultants

Prior experience coordinating business/digital transformative with finance technology and collaborating with finance stakeholders (preferred).

Experience onboard/offboarding third-party consults.

Skilled at documentation, collecting deliverables, and excellent written and verbal communication skills

Proficiency with MS Office Suite (i.e., Excel, Word, Outlook)

Experience with virtual collaboration platforms and video conferencing solutions, specifically MS Teams and Teams Call Management

Familiarity with project management workflow tools (i.e., Smartsheets, MS Project, Jira/Confluence, ect.)

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. For unincorporated Los Angeles county, to the extent our customers require a background check for certain positions, the Company faces a significant risk to its business operations and business reputation unless a review of criminal history is conducted for those specific job positions.