Project Coordinator

York Temporary Up to £20.00 per hour Ref: 420441

The Opportunity:

Project Coordinator

Location: Outskirts of York, hybrid working
Contract: Temporary, minimum six months
Rate: £18.00 to £20.00 per hour, depending on experience
Hours: Full-time

We are recruiting a Project Coordinator to support a busy portfolio of IT and business change projects within a large, established organisation.

Working alongside Project Managers and the wider project support team, you will help ensure multiple projects remain organised, accurately documented and on track. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced coordinator who enjoys working across varied projects or someone looking to further develop their career within project management.

You will be highly organised, confident managing multiple priorities and comfortable following up with stakeholders to keep activity moving. You should be able to work independently, use your initiative and adapt when priorities change.

Key Responsibilities:

Maintaining project plans, milestones, actions and dependencies
Managing project logs and ensuring risks and issues have clear owners and regular updates
Tracking deadlines and following up on outstanding or overdue actions
Producing clear project updates, highlighting risks, issues and upcoming milestones
Supporting Project Managers with governance meetings, stage gates and key project activity
Coordinating meetings and workshops, capturing decisions and monitoring actions
Maintaining accurate, organised and accessible project documentation
Supporting multiple projects and Project Managers simultaneously
Liaising with stakeholders across IT and the wider business to obtain updates
Identifying missing, inconsistent or outdated information and taking appropriate action
Supporting continuous improvements to project coordination processes

About you

Previous experience in project coordination, project support or a PMO environment
Experience maintaining project plans, actions, milestones, dependencies
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Excellent attention to detail and the confidence to constructively challenge
Good working knowledge of Microsoft 365, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint
Experience supporting IT or business change projects would be advantageous
Knowledge of Asana or another project management system would be beneficial
A project qualification such as PRINCE2 Foundation, APM Project Fundamentals Qualification or P3O Foundation would be desirable

This position is expected to last for a minimum of six months and offers an hourly rate of approx £18.00 to £20.00, depending on experience. Applicants must be able to travel to the organisation’s offices on the outskirts of York three days per week.

If you are an organised and proactive Project Coordinator who enjoys keeping projects moving, we would be delighted to hear from you.