Senior Project Coordinator / Junior Project Manager

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The senior project coordinator / junior project manager is responsible for the successful delivery of small IT infrastructure projects or provides project co-ordination support to a Senior Project Managers/Programme Managers. The role covers project plans, executes, and delivers all projects on time, in budget, and within scope in accordance with business priorities. Throughout the lifecycle of each project, this person tracks project status and manages project teams to mitigate issues and risks.

Key Responsibilities

• Defines and creates project plans for project, portfolio, and product prioritisation and implementation
• Evaluates trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value
• Partners with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria
• Builds, leads, and coaches multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles
• Facilitates all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of projects
• Assesses and resolves all high priority project risks as they are encountered
• Ensures all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company
• Continually updates relevant business stakeholder of project status
• Negotiates resolution of conflicting requirements across the agencies and/or departments
• Sets and measures performance objectives and provides regular one-on-one feedback to all members of the team
• Addresses individual staff performance problems as needed

Skills

• Good project coordination and/or project management, organisation, and team collaboration skills
• Strong understanding of IT infrastructure technology and platforms
• Previous experience of working in infrastructure operations role highly desirable
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good facilitation, collaboration, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Ability to anticipate risks and devise solutions in the moment
• Comfort with ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability
• Strong team leadership skills
• Good understanding of project management concepts

Experience

• Minimum 5 years in project coordination
• Minimum 1 years’ experience managing small projects
• Experience working with project and portfolio management Tools
• Ideally you will good previous experience working in IT infrastructure projects
• Any previous experience of working in an IT Operations role highly desirable (e.g., Networking, Service Desk, Operating Systems, platforms, Disaster recovery etc.)

  
Education Requirements/Certification

• Bachelor’s degree or a related field industry experience
• PRINCE2 Foundations (Highly regarded)
• ITIL/ITSM certifications (Highly regarded)

Why join us? 
Because it means being part of an exceptionally talented group of people that deliver leading edge advice and solutions to our clients. 
We want you to love it here as much as we love having you! So, aside from offering a great job in a fantastic CBD location with plenty of opportunities to learn and progress, we also offer social club participation with monthly events (kid-friendly outings during holidays!), discounted health insurance, mobile phone plans covered by us and so much more. 
 
What next? 
Head on over to our website www.empired.com to really get to know us and find out more about who we are and what we get up to. 
We really want to hear from you, even if it's just to ask some questions, or to have a chat in confidence. 
 
Apply online now! 
 
Capgemini acquisition of Empired & Intergen: In November this year Empired and Intergen became part of Capgemini, following the announcement by Capgemini. Empired + Intergen’s team of 1,100 are now part of a team of 3,500 in Australia and New Zealand, backed by 300,000 Capgemini staff globally. Together, both organisations achieve greater scale, breadth and geographic coverage across Australia and New Zealand, along with the ability to fulfil their combined vision and purpose and further establish a position as a digital, data and cloud market leader with unrivalled Microsoft capabilities. 
 
Empired and Intergen are committed to considering all applications for employment from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race or skin colour, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, family or carer’s responsibility, pregnancy, religion or political opinion, or national origin

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