Project Coordinator Job at VanderHouwen, Portland, OR

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  • VanderHouwen
  • Portland, OR

Job Description

Project Coordinator
As a Project Coordinator, you’ll enable teams to achieve their goals, keeping projects focused, team outputs healthy, and stakeholders informed. Your experience in service to a team, humble confidence and social grace will help you mentor teams as you partner with fellow leads to foster an open, transparent development environment.

This is a 100% remote position.

Project Coordinator Qualifications
An Agile Pro:
You have proven experience leading high-performing and innovative Agile teams. Your teams appreciate you because you create an environment where teams can grow. Your teams are happy and effective. You are organized, quality focused and inspiring. You create an environment of trust, fostering open communication and collaborating. You create an environment of successful delivery and continuous improvement by asking, listening, communicating and coaching. You are an agent of change, constantly questioning value and driving through improvements. You keep teams focused on results, growth and actionable feedback. You use the most appropriate methods and metrics to create transparency and predictability for the team. You encourage the team to share information. You share your skills and experience through mentoring and coaching and encourage personal growth. You are able to adapt style to suit the situation.

A Delivery & Quality Focused Leader:
You are not afraid to lead the team to make the right decision for the customer or ask for help. You negotiate with diplomacy to get the right outcome for the team. Your mantra is “Quality First”, setting and maintaining high standards for you and your teams. You understand how project goals correlate to the business strategy, customer value of team backlog, balancing breadth vs depth to inform good decision making. You clearly understand the vision, context and goals and help the team steer towards them. You see and remediate risks before they become roadblocks. You are calm under pressure and can clearly prioritize across competing demands. You measure progress and can comfortably communicate delivery status at all levels of the organization. You foster team experimentation and learning, challenging conventional thinking and legacy anchors.

Education:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in business or relevant technical field, is required.
4+ years’ experience in interactive project management, with Publishing industry technology products preferred.
Experiencing in an Agile/Scrum environment, educational technology a plus.
Proficient in using scrum planning tools. Experience with JIRA a plus.

Compensation: $22-$32/hr. (DOE)

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies’ staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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