Jr. IT (Security) Project Coordinator (Korean Bilingual)

On Site

Contract Period:  1 year

Pay Rate: $5,582/mo DOE

Korean Bilingual preferred

The IT (Security) Project Coordinator is responsible for providing project planning and management for established initiatives within a company. They ensure that projects are completed to specification, within an established time frame and budget. A Technical Project Coordinator is the lead subject matter expert within the company regarding technology concerns. They use their industry expertise to improve all aspects of project planning and resource management.

The IT (Security) Project Coordinator will plan, establish, and manage information technology (IT) projects and will serve as a liaison between the business and technical aspects of assigned projects. Candidates must have a good understanding of running an enterprise IT infrastructure environment.

Job Description

• Oversee project tasks and assist with ad-hoc projects: Coordination, tracking, and scheduling
• Generate project documentation (e.g., scope, objectives, requirements, schedule, and status)
• Generate reports and charts to keep leadership and stakeholders appraised of progress
• Lead change management
• Draft communications
• For assigned Infrastructure projects, define and document project scope, requirements, deliverables, stakeholders, and prepare high-level project plans
• Schedule and conduct project meetings throughout project duration; handle short-term tactical project planning as well as longer-term strategic planning
• Prepare and distribute project meeting minutes
• Prepare and distribute project status reports to stakeholders (including Executive sponsor) on a periodic basis appropriate to project phase and need
• Work with Infrastructure management and finance to develop and maintain project budget details and procure Infrastructure assets
• Manage project(s) and project resources throughout the entire IT (Security) Implementation Project
• Follow proper Change Management Processes
• Responsible for the following: development of project milestones, project schedules, tracking project costs, tracking the design, development, and testing progress of the project, documenting and tracking issues and risks, communication of project status to management
• Responsible for working with vendor, contract, or internal IT (Security) delivery resources to define project scope, technical requirements, and determine high-level estimates
• Define resources and schedule for project implementation
• Oversee (or perform) the Business Analyst role of gathering requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and workflow analysis
• Serve as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team to ensure business goals are achieved
• Engage business stakeholders to identify and incorporate business-owned project tasks and dependencies
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Provide regular and timely project status updates to project team and management as needed to ensure projects are meeting agreed-upon timelines
• Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning
• Ensure projects are on schedule and deadlines are met
• Manage project budget and forecast
• Direct and oversee project team and manage conflicts within the group
• Efficiently identify, escalate, and solve project issues
• Demonstrate leadership
• Provide technical leadership and support the PTA (Project Turn over to Delivery) process by reviewing and commenting from a technical perspective on project SOW (Statement of Work), BOM (Bill of Material), Solution Architecture, and expected timeline
• Provide technical leadership and support PMP and project schedule development by PM

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required (all majors accepted; Master's degree not required)
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies, and methods
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing rising talent in the technology department
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles
• Ability to travel up to ~50%
• Bilingual (Korean/English) required

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.