Project Coordinator - Pretoria at Datacentrix

Datacentrix Managed Talent Solutions is looking for a Project Coordinator for one of their client based in Lynwood Pretoria. The purpose of this position is to support the delivery of IT projects by managing and addressing all administrative aspects within the project. The Junior Project Manager will be required to support multiple projects and/or multiple project managers at any given time.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience Required:

• This position requires a minimum qualification of a National Diploma (NQF level 6) in IT or Project Management.
• Project management certification
• The incumbent requires at least 3 years’ experience administering projects in an IT environment.

Responsibilities:

Project Coordination: 

• Provide support to project managers to collect, develop, and analyse data useful in setting team objectives/targets
• Assist with creation of project plans to ensure they have clear timelines, GANTT Charts, objectives and deliverables
• Consult with key role players in different business units or centres or stakeholders for inputs on key project documentation
• Ensure that key project document are complete and in accordance with specified PMO templates
• Compile and manage updates to weekly status reports, risk log, Issue log and decision log
• Schedules all project related meetings, reminders and follow up on any outstanding activities
• Document project meeting minutes and track progress on action items
• Track project progress against set deliverables and make recommendations on corrective action that can be applied
• Track, monitor and manage identified project risks and make recommendations on corrective action that can be applied
• Coordinate with service provider(s) for project tracking and monitoring against agreed deliverable
• Ensure the completeness of all invoicing and payments to service providers
• Track and update the budget movement in line with project expenditure
• Facilitate the quality checks on the project documents (e.g. providing access for Project Governance reviews)
• Assist in compiling project closure reports and assessment reports
• Manage all project documentation in line with the company project management framework and application document management policies and/or procedures
• Stand in for project manager when away or on leave to ensure continued progress on projects

 Project measurement:

• Applies standard techniques to support the specification of measures and the collection and maintenance of data for measurement
• Generates, produces and distributes reports
• Utilise measurement tools for routine analysis of data
• Identifies and implements improvements to data collection methods