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Project Coordinator
Hertfordshire
Salary up to 40k!
Construction Consultancy
This ever-growing construction consultancy firm is on the lookout for an ambitious Project Coordinator to join their vibrant team in Hertfordshire. You will provide essential administration support and assistance to the project management team who will need to place reliance and trust in the coordinators ability to create and maintain accurate records and deliver effective task management, particularly that which arises from key project meetings with internal and external stakeholders, including the client.
This is a great opportunity for someone who is keen to kickstart their career in construction. With a range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic training and development programmes put in place and more, you can ensure that you can achieve your goals here!
Ready for your next challenge? Apply today!
Key Responsibilities of the Project Coordinator:
- Creating accurate records of meetings including meeting minutes and action lists, ensures quality of records meets company standards and then distributes within timeframes.
- Creates and manages project actions and task lists, both because of internal and external meetings, communicates these clearly, chases and communicates updates until closure within deadlines.
- Can identify issues with agreed tasks not completing in timeframes and understanding the impacts of non-completion, escalates within agreed project hierarchy.
- Manages project team diaries to ensure essential meetings are prioritised and that agreed meetings take place.
- Operates with integrity in all meetings with clients, stakeholders and internally, produces professional communications and is aware of appropriate boundaries in relation to the disclosure of information.
- Manages time effectively, both own and that of the team to aid maximum effectiveness, keeps actions moving toward delivery.
- Keeps records on project task and action status, identifies delays and agrees revised delivery dates if appropriate or escalates on-completion to project leaders.
- Attentive in meetings, actively listens to all parties and gains clarity through questions to ensure full understanding of the matters to be recorded or actions to be delivered.
- Responds to clients and stakeholder communications in full and in a timely manner, whilst always ensuring these communications are in keeping with company standards.
- Ensures time is productive, produces timesheet on time and always ensures providing value to the client.
- Identifies potential project issues, including health & safety, impact of non-completion of actions and/or any stakeholder dissatisfaction, readily and appropriately escalates to senior project managers, supports and assists in any remedial action or follow up.
- Proactive in understanding new tasks in reasonable timeframe to be able help at short notice within own projects or in supporting another and adapts when needed.
Skills & Competencies:
- Time management & organisational skills
- Interpersonal skills & Teamwork skills
- Proactive & Self-starter -can do attitude, thinks ahead, owns performance & self-development
- Integrity & Professionalism -Promotes professional image of self & company, always acts with integrity
- Attention to detail -detail orientated, meticulous
- Adaptability & Resilience -readily adapts to and can navigate change, can communicate to & lead others through change
- Problem Solving skills
- Communication Skills -excellent verbal & written, all levels internally & externally & to stakeholder audience
- 3+ years administration support experience, ideally in a project management environment
- 3+ years in service environment, client or consumer facing
- Construction industry experience desirable
Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
