Project Coordinator

Summary

Join Datacom as a Project Coordinator and play a key role in delivering Statements of Work (SOWs), from initial request to final delivery. You will manage multiple deliverables, requiring excellent organizational and time management skills. This role involves coordinating all aspects of projects, maintaining documentation, preparing reports, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. You will collaborate with various departments and external parties, gathering information and preparing reports. The successful candidate will have strong client focus, relevant IT project experience, and proven analytical and problem-solving skills. Datacom offers a dynamic work environment with perks such as remote working, flexi-hours, and professional development courses.

Requirements

• Demonstrated planning and organisational skills including exceptional attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks at one time, achieve required outcomes and meet deadlines in a high-pressure environment
• Demonstrated understanding and working knowledge of administrative support techniques and methods
• Knowledge of finance management practices, with a clear understanding of the relationship between costs, utilisation and project revenue
• 2-4 years of relevant project administration or coordination experience
• Project coordination skills, deploying project management disciplines and processes
• Ability to successfully deliver projects, coming in on time, to scope, quality and within budget
• Ability to work on assignments requiring considerable judgement and initiative
• Assures adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements
• Ability to work in large collaborative teams to achieve organisational goals, and act as informal leader and mentor developing employees
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective presentation skills with the ability to convey technical information across various levels
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Providing administrative support to relieve executive, administrative, and line and staff managers of complex details and advanced administrative duties
• Maintaining and coordinating documentation, design and development of projects
• Assisting with the preparation of reports
• Coordinating project schedules and helping ensure that projects are delivered within given timeframes, meet user requirements, and are easily maintainable
• Coordinating activities between departments and outside parties
• Contacting company personnel at all organisational levels to gather information and prepare reports. Interacting extensively with sales, systems engineering, product development, and other members of cross-functional teams
• Assisting and providing support for the project team to deliver maximum levels of productivity
• Assisting with the reporting on the progress against project timeframes, milestones and budget
• Analysing problems, determining approach, compiling and analysing data, and preparing reports/recommendations. Takes reasonable care that their actions (or inactions) do not harm the Health and Safety of self or others
• Reports all incidents, hazards or unsafe work practices as per Datacom policy

Preferred Qualifications

A strong client focus with experience in relevant IT projects is highly desirable

Benefits

• Remote working
• Flexi-hours
• Professional development courses