Project Manager Coordinator - Hybrid Nashville, TN
About The Position
The Project Manager Coordinator supports the PMO, which consists of two Senior Project Managers and a PMO Director, by helping plan, coordinate, track, and report project activities. This entry-level role maintains project documentation, action items, risks, issues, and communications to support successful project delivery. The coordinator works collaboratively with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, vendors, and leadership, while developing foundational project management experience and helping protect project scope, schedule, quality, and stakeholder alignment. The position operates in a hybrid environment and requires regular collaboration with project teams, stakeholders, leadership, and vendors. It may involve meetings across multiple workstreams and occasional schedule flexibility to support project needs. Success is measured by accurate and current documentation, timely coordination, reliable tracking, clear project updates, effective meeting follow-through, positive working relationships, early communication of potential concerns, and progressive development of project management knowledge and independence.
Requirements
- Very strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Some experience with administrative coordination, project support, operations, business analysis, or team coordination.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments and competing deadlines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with individuals at different organizational levels.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
- Ability to maintain confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
Nice To Haves
- Internship, coursework, or experience in project management and/or business operations.
- Familiarity with project management concepts, including scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and change management.
- Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or other delivery methodologies.
- Experience using project management or collaboration tools such as Planview, AirTable, Microsoft Planner, Jira, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, or similar platforms.
- CAPM, Scrum certification, or other project management training.
Responsibilities
- Support project managers with day-to-day project coordination.
- Maintain project timelines, milestones, and deliverable trackers.
- Coordinate project meetings, including scheduling, agendas, attendance, and follow-up.
- Prepare meeting notes and document decisions, action items, owners, and due dates.
- Monitor action items and follow up with responsible team members.
- Assist with tracking project dependencies and handoffs between teams.
- Support Agile ceremonies, including stand-ups, backlog reviews, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, when applicable.
- Maintain project plans, status reports, RAID logs, decision logs, stakeholder lists, and other project artifacts.
- Collect project updates from workstream leads and team members.
- Escalate overdue items, emerging risks, and schedule concerns to the project manager.
- Support the development of presentations, dashboards, and executive reporting materials.
- Ensure project documents are organized, current, and accessible.
- Help coordinate cross-functional meetings and workstream activities.
- Assist with stakeholder follow-up and response tracking.
- Help identify communication gaps, resource constraints, and unresolved decisions.
- Assist with identifying and documenting risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
- Maintain the RAID log and support regular reviews with the project team.
- Track mitigation plans and follow up on assigned actions.
- Document requested changes to scope, schedule, requirements, or deliverables and bring potential impacts to the project manager’s attention.
- Support change control and governance activities as directed.
- Manage the program calendar, distribution lists, shared folders, and SharePoint site.
- Track project-related training, onboarding, access, and participation requirements.
- Assist with procurement, invoicing, timesheet, and vendor coordination activities when applicable.
- Support project closeout activities, including lessons learned and phase transition materials.
- Perform other project coordination duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
