Project Coordinator

Parsons Corporation•Olney, MD

About The Position

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Project Coordinator to join our team! In this role you will get to manage tasks and suspense items, developing high-quality briefing materials, and preparing talking points and responses to senior leader inquiries. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, senior-level environment.

Requirements

Masters w/ 10 years of experience, Bachelor w/ 12 years of experience or Associate’s with 7 years of experience
Degree in Project Management, Business Management, Economics, Political Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Law, Finance/Accounting, Strategic Intelligence or related discipline preferred.
TS/SCI w/ Poly
Experience in dynamic operations environment to ensure short- and long-term objectives are met.
Demonstrated experience in staff operations, task management, or executive-level support (WMS, ETMS2 etc)
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing senior level briefings
Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet short-fuse deadlines
High attention to detail and strong organizational skills
Ability to work independently while coordinating across multiple stakeholders
Prior experience supporting general officers, senior executives, or government
Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, especially PowerPoint and Word.
Proficiency with JIRA and Confluence
Strong communicator both verbally and written.
Great and problem solving and teamwork.

Nice To Haves

US CYBERCOM experience
Military/government experience

Responsibilities

Manage assigned tasks, action items, and suspense tracking to ensure timely completion and leadership visibility
Develop and maintain briefing materials, including slide decks, read-aheads, decision briefs, and information papers
Draft and coordinate talking points, background materials, and responses to inquiries from general officers and senior staff
Serve as a primary point of contact for tasking coordination across internal and external organizations
Analyze issues and synthesize complex information into clear, concise products for senior leader decision-making
Respond to ad hoc requests and emerging requirements from general officers and leadership as needed
Ensure all products meet organizational standards for accuracy, clarity, and professionalism
Conduct analysis, identify “as-is” and “to-be” processes, collect relevant data, information and documentation to formulate and implement a solution or recommendation.
Develop and recommend standardized tradecraft approaches for AI/ML capabilities that span the breadth of USCC command missions to enable basic mission groupings combined with AI/ML categorizations to match mission needs based on results of user journey mappings and or AI/ML SME advisors.
Ability to collaborate closely with business and operational stakeholders to understand mission requirements.
Ability to clearly communicate project progress, blockers, and results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to create action plans and set milestones to achieve objectives.
Ability to prioritize tasks and coordinate schedules, ensuring executives can attend meetings and meet objectives.
Ability to operate effectively and efficiently and adapt in a dynamic, high-stakes mission environment with evolving requirements and priorities under limited supervision and be able to make all deliverables.
Strong organization skills who can develop, initiate, plan, monitor and track schedules, production of deliverables, and other ad-hoc duties.