Project Coordinator

Salary: Circa $110k plus super

About the Role

Our client is seeking an experienced, hands-on Project Coordinator to support the delivery of a nationally significant digital program. The program is focused on systems and integration and is in its early stages. You’ll coordinate a growing team of project managers across internal and client-side projects, keeping information, people, and project practices moving in the right direction. This role suits a confident coordinator who understands how projects work. You’ll be comfortable in a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment and won’t hesitate to raise concerns when something isn’t right.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate project onboarding, including system access, project information, and inclusion in project practices for new team members
• Support multiple Project and Program Managers, building working relationships with up to eight PMs across the client and partner organisations
• Maintain risk, issue, action and decision registers, and chase owners through to resolution
• Make sure project information reaches the right people at the right time across a range of collaboration and planning tools
• Coordinate meetings, governance forums and project communications, both formal and informal
• Proactively identify and escalate risks, blockers and concerns to project leadership
• Support continuous improvement of project practices and tooling as the program scales

Essential Skills & Experience

• 4+ years’ experience as a Project Coordinator in complex, multi-stakeholder project environments
• Hands-on understanding of project delivery mechanics, beyond administrative support
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the maturity to stay composed under pressure and work through difficult stakeholder situations
• Confidence to speak up, challenge and raise issues with senior stakeholders
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities across multiple projects
• Ability to adapt quickly to a mixed tooling environment (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, MS Project, Teams)
• Australian Citizen with the ability to obtain Baseline security clearance

Desirable Experience

• Experience working in government, and/or consulting to government from the private sector
• Exposure to national digital programs or health sector agencies
• Background with boutique consultancies, Big 4 advisory, or major technology vendors
• Experience supporting greenfield programs through rapid growth