Program Coordinator

Company Description

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs. 

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.

Job Description

• A project management professional committed to delivering programs on-time and within budget by improving the effectiveness of project teams through the application of professionally accepted program and project management methods, techniques, and tools. 

• Candidate may support 2-4 medium to large or many more small projects. 

JOB DUTIES: 

• The incumbent typically has some relevant project management experience and will require limited supervision for most duties. 

• He/she supports projects that have moderate value and may be somewhat complex in nature. 

• This is a staff position that requires a very good understanding of program and project management tools & processes. 

• The incumbent will provide facilitation for project teams and will lead control meetings and chartering/planning sessions for small to medium projects. 

• Incumbent may assist senior coordinators with larger, more complex chartering/planning sessions. 

• Maintains program level issues/action logs, risk registers, scope change requests/logs, program work plans, and program cost tracking. 

• Maintains accurate project schedules with some follow-up by Program Management Supervisor to ensure data quality. 

• The incumbent captures project information, analyzes data from schedule updates (e.g. critical path), works with project team members to resolve logic errors, helps explain changes due to updates, and updates plan according to actions taken by the project team to resolve schedule problems. 

• Creates report packages and communicates project status. 

Qualifications

• This position requires a four year college or university degree. 

• Three to five years of job-related experience in program management. 

• Exposure to engineering, or product development, or purchasing, or IT desired. 

• Must have strong interpersonal skills including excellent communication skills, strong meeting facilitation skills, and the ability to work well in a team environment. 

• Must possess sound knowledge of the project management software Primavera, MS Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat, and Web Publishing tools.

Additional Information

To know more on this position, please contact:

Jeff T. Demaala

973-606-3249