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Project Coordinator Job Description and Person Specification

The role of a Project Coordinator is to support project teams and managers to enable them to successfully deliver important, time-sensitive projects for clients and stakeholders. The Project Coordinator role may be flexible in nature and require you to undertake additional duties as and when required. The role of a Project Coordinator requires a unique set of skills and qualities to ensure all projects and tasks are completed on time, to specification and within budget.

Excellent planning and organizational skills, an ability to manage people and resources, dissect important information during the project life-cycle and also a passion for delivering project to high standards are all important attributes within this high-pressure role.

If you are to succeed in the role of Project Coordinator, you must be willing to undertake the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Plan, organize, monitor and set project schedules to ensure they are completed within specified timescales;
• Attend and contribute effectively to project meetings along with other project stakeholders, managers and clients;
• Develop and implement project strategies and present them during project meetings;
• Assess the project risks and determine a strategy for minimizing them successfully;
• Offer project administrative support as and when required to uphold project timescales and milestones;
• Listen to, discuss an negotiate stakeholder and client interests within the project;
• Chair meetings where appropriate to ensure the project discussion points are fully covered and plans put in place to achieve project objectives.

TIP #1 – Your ability to see through a project from beginning to end is extremely important within the role of Project Coordinator. On that basis, it is vital you demonstrate your ability to organize, plan, respond to challenges and also communicate effectively at all levels during the Project Coordinator interview.

TIP #2 – Confidence and a proven track record of achievement will determine who will get the highest scores possible during your Project Coordinator interview. It is really important you provide evidence-based answers to behavioral-type interview questions such as: “When have you worked as part of a team to complete a difficult task?”, “Describe a time when you overcame conflict within a team?”, and also “What’s the biggest challenge you have ever had to overcome?”

TIP #3 – When responding to competency-based and situational-type interview questions, similar to those indicated in tip number 2 above, we recommend you make use of the STAR technique when structuring your answers. The STAR format consists of SITUATION, TASK, ACTION and RESULT, and this follows a proven formula for ensuring you give the interview panel specific situations you were in where you have already demonstrated the key requirements of the project coordinator role.

TIP #4 – During you Project Coordinator interview, use powerful keywords and phrases during your answers to the interview questions that will resonate positively with the panel.

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