Assistant Project Manager

Job Title: Project Coordinator

Location: Atlanta, GA

Interview: Teams/In Person

Duration: Long Term

Job Responsibilities:

• Plan, organize, and integrate cross-functional information technology tasks to deliver specific results to customers on time.
• Schedule meetings, record and distribute project meeting minutes.
• Monitor and track project documentation and deliverables.
• Send follow-ups as necessary to ensure project activities are completed in a timely manner.
• Work with project managers and business teams to document and manage project scope and high-level requirements.
• Perform project tasks (gathering requirements, facilitating design discussions, overseeing application development, testing, training, and roll-out schedules) as required to keep projects on track.
• Keep project status and resource forecasts current in reporting tools.
• Use reporting tools to keep customers informed of project status and to schedule upcoming work.
• Aiding in the development of status reporting, communication material such as emails, newsletters, or PowerPoint presentation, updating project schedules and Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions (RAID) log
• Provide customer management responsibilities, including managing expectations, communicating project status, and reporting on lessons learned and retrospective findings.
• Maintain effective communication and working relationships with project team members.
• Other responsibilities per management discretion.

Skills and Competencies:

• Advanced skills using Microsoft Office tools (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.) and Asana
• Excellent written, oral, and presentation skills
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to effectively communicate with various stakeholder groups: executive management, business, and technical teams.
• Ability to multi-task.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Three years of recent, verifiable, relevant project management experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience implementing large-scall programs.
• Prior experience implementing business processes in a government organization
• Certification as Professional Project Manager (PMP) or Certified associate in project management (CAPM)