Project Coordinator

We’re looking for a Project Coordinator that can hit the ground running and provide high quality support on multiple projects across different clients.

• Is super organised and has amazing attention to detail.
• Is a team player who thrives in a fun, flexible, trusting environment.
• Has beautiful communication and interpersonal skills, and
• Wants to learn new things and thinks outside of the box.

This is a busy and exciting role that will contribute directly to the success of amazing projects for the benefit of children, educators, families, and communities!

Key responsibilities

• Provide support to the organisation to enable the achievement of the organisation’s vision, mission, and goals.
• Support Projects and People to enable them to meet defined objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and proactively work to resolve problems, address identified risks and issues, and achieve project objectives.
• Plan and coordinate project activities, including scheduling, reporting, document control, collating budgets and expenditure data, scheduling meetings, taking minutes and actions, coordinating project activities, and facilitating project communications.
• Maintain digital Project sites (we use and LOVE ASANA) and document repositories.
• Document, update, and communicate project risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
• Carry out your role in a manner that exemplifies the organisation’s values.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience working in a project role, that has many projects running concurrently.
• Experience in providing support to leadership teams to achieve project objectives.
• Skilled in effective time management, prioritising work, and multi-tasking in a fast paced and dynamic environment
• Confident in using technology to complete tasks, enhance processes and improve efficiencies.
• Advanced skills and experience in using technology and systems to be paperless and streamlined.
• High level understanding of project management processes.
• Demonstrated ability to construct and maintain project related documents, including financial documentation.
• Experience in supporting the coordination of meetings, presentations, workshops, and information sessions, both face to face and in a digital environment.
• Able to constructively and professionally share suggestions, feedback and recommendations with the goal of achieving project objectives.
• Skilled in providing high level internal and external customer service.

Qualifications:

• Highly beneficial to have a qualification in project management, project administration, or business administration.
• Working with Children Check as relevant to state or territory (QLD Blue/Exemption Card)
• Current driver’s license
• Able to travel between their home, the office and throughout Australia.

You will:

• See relationships as critical to success.
• Show respect to everyone you encounter.
• Have a growth mindset and actively solve problems
• Strive for excellence in your documentation
• See children as competent and capable and align with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• Seek to understand issues and find workable and relevant solutions.
• Have a strong work ethic and believe that there is no job too small for you to complete.
• Contribute and work as part of a team.
• Be extremely capable of working independently and maintaining your own levels of motivation and commitment to tasks.

What we can offer you:

• To be part of a small but might team of fun & fab people, who love what they do.
• A dedicated and supportive leadership team.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Career development opportunities.
• A relationships-focused, values-driven organisation.
• Hands-on experience and opportunities to learn new things.

About Astute Early Years Specialists - We are experts in Childcare Centre Management, Consulting & Transformation

At Astute Early Years Specialists leverage our extensive experience working with & managing childcare centres throughout Australia to address and resolve issues in the complex landscape that is early childhood.

Through sound expertise in early years practice, operations and business, our network has the capability and knowledge to support early childhood centres throughout Australia resolve just about any business problem they are facing.

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