Rosslyn, Virginia / Sterling, Virginia / Washington, District Of Columbia
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OVERVIEW:
We are seeking an experienced and accomplished technical Project Coordinator to be part of a team supporting the operations and maintenance of a large scale and world-wide Enterprise IT environment covering application hosting and support; enterprise services; and infrastructure services in the Washington D.C. metro area. This candidate will coordinate a large portfolio of projects in conjunction with Government customers. The Project Coordinator will serve the needs of a diverse team of operational engineers to implement superior levels of project management, tracking, and control.
GENERAL DUTIES:
- Coordinate IT project plans, scope, schedules, resources, and tasks for the Department of State in coordination with customer managers
- Work closely with project managers and technical resources to help track, organize, and coordinate project risks; help identify issues and develop solutions
- Support Agile processes and assist project managers and technical resources with Scrum/Kanban practices
- Ensure projects adhere to processes and frameworks, and all documentation is maintained appropriately
- Plan, schedule, and prepare materials for internal project meetings and customer meetings; document important actions and decisions
- Assist with developing and organizing executive-level dashboards and reports
- Liaise with program stakeholders such as development teams, security officers, and PMO
- Support the change management process and assist with ushering and coordinating critical changes through internal processes.
- Develop best practices and tools for project support
- Manage process improvement activities in non-technical program areas
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- BS degree and 8-10 years experience or MS degree and 6-8 years experience or PhD degree and 3-5 years experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience working as a Project Coordinator, on Federal contracts a plus
- Experience in project coordination or management for software development, database management, infrastructure, or network environment projects a plus
- Experience with project methodologies and associated tools (SDLC, Agile, Kanban, and Jira or IBM ELM suite)
- Solid experience with MS Office Suites
- Experience with knowledge sharing tools such as SharePoint and Confluence
- Experience with Agile practices
- Experience providing support in a highly demanding environment
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
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