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Job Information
Job title

Project Coordinator

Company Encore Credit Corporation
Wage Not specified
Location United States, California, Irvine
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 6/25/2005
Description
Participates in planning and coordinating activities of departmental technology projects to ensure that goals or objectives of projects are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters. Carries out plans and activities pertaining to technology projects for a given business unit, within area of expertise. Ensures that project tasks are completed as scheduled and reports results to project manager(s). Performs project activities, ensuring the currency, quality, and integrity of the information, and providing consistency in content and "look and feel" within a given project. Works closely with the assigned user community (and through product managers) in providing technology that addresses their needs. Understands how to leverage applications for project use. Searches for creative ways to elevate the capabilities of technology systems to meet business needs.

Responsibilities
? Assist in reviewing project proposal or plan to help determine time frame and procedures for accomplishing project
? Carry out established work plan for each phase of project
? Understand technical scope and objectives of project
? Confer with project manager to understand work plan and to accept duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority
? Be familiar with scheduled project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks
? Complete assigned activities of project to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget
? Prepare status reports to project managers
? Adhere to standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation
? Confer with project manager to provide technical advice and resolve problems
? Coordinate project activities and tasks
? Coordinate requests for changes from original specifications
? Ensure users' easy access to information that is useful to them
? Keep close contact with key end-user representatives directly to ensure technologies are providing valuable information-sharing capabilities to customers
? Work closely with the end users, product managers, and others to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs

Skills and Knowledge
? Understanding of how to leverage business applications for project advantage
? Solid understanding of current technologies in area of expertise (e.g., Web Enterprise Servers, Java, HTML, Unix, Perl, TCP/IP, SQL, Oracle)
? Solid understanding of the software development process, including requirements gathering, analysis and design, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management
? Strong analysis, design, and implementation experience with technologies
? Good verbal and written communication skills; proficiency in setting and managing customer expectations
? Technical expertise in hardware and systems software, as well as experience implementing packages and working with vendors
? Skill in conceptualizing creative solutions, documenting them, and presenting/selling them to project managers
? Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence
? Strong customer focus and ability to manage client expectations
? Ability to communicate needs and schedules to IT and clients
? Ability to deliver projects using leading-edge technology
? Solid project experience with ability to multitask in a cross-functional environment
? Ability to blend creativity, problem solving, and technical skills for refining existing theories or developing new system approaches to seize opportunities and sustain business success
? Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills

Experience
? Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or related discipline with an information technology focus or equivalent, related project management experience
? Two to three years of progressive broad-based information systems and business experience; experience in software engineering involving development and testing of applications is highly desirable; one or more years working in an NT/RDBMS environment with exposure to three-tier client/server development
? One or more years of business unit experience, with sensitivity and commitment to business problem solving
? Management potential and development skills
? One to two years of demonstrated experience in systems development, during which more than one of the following occurred:
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Experience/Skills
See Above

Other desired skills:
Project Coordinator
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