Project Manager, Sr​/Hartford ,CT; Hybrid

Project Coordinator

The Project Coordinator will be responsible for partnering with the Project Director to develop, maintain, control and manage the overall plan and supporting activities for the CT-KIND project. This will include working with business/IT leads and team members to ensure critical activities are accurately defined, understood and remain on track with agreed to timelines, change management activities are supported and all stakeholders remain on track for project objectives.

Duties and expectations of the Project Coordinator are as follows:

• Ability to build strong partnerships.
• Support organizational change management (OCM) activities (communication development, road mapping, training, preparing for change).
• Assist in building and roll out of the OCM impact tracker.
• Development, support and maintenance of executive level dashboards and presentations.
• Consults with product owners, team members, directors, and technical experts to set up assignments, tasks and sub-tasks with the final output being an internal milestone plan.
• Keeping stakeholders informed of project timelines, deadlines, and critical path awareness items as they arise.
• Assist with identification and definition of recommended actions to keep the project within budget and on schedule including options for risk response and resolution.
• Will work integrally with the vendor project scheduler, Project Director, Business Program Director, and IT Customer Success Manager on ensuring resources stay on track and remain on time for deliverables.

Project Coordinator Required Skills and Expertise:

• Comfort working with ambiguity.
• Experience leading diverse groups toward desired outcomes.
• Strong executive presentation skills.
• Able to monitor project timelines and deadlines across multiple work streams.
• Experience in assisting the development of a portfolio level view of project related activity.
• Familiarity working with both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Expert negotiation skills.
• Proficiency in MS Project, SharePoint, Azure Dev Ops, and other project tools/software.
• Strong risk and issue management acumen.
• Proven communication skills, well-organized, and influential leadership skills, with demonstrated experience working in a team-oriented environment and proficiency with collaboration, including having excellent interpersonal and documentation skills.
• Project budgeting, resource planning, allocation and capacity planning skills and experience.
• Is an aggressive problem solver.
• Business acumen and political savvy
• PMP, CSM certification preferred.
• Prosci Change Management Certification