Project Coordinator

The Project Coordinator will assist our Project Managers in organizing ongoing projects. This involves monitoring project plans, schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures, organizing and participating in stakeholder meetings, and ensuring that project deadlines are met in a timely manner. The Coordinator will also work with key Associates across different business units to understand, interpret, and review documented requirements.

• Understand the business goals of the project to ensure stakeholder/sponsor expectations are met.
• Maintain, monitor and update project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures.
• Communicate status, changes, and critical issues throughout the project to key project stakeholders and sponsors.
• Ensure that all team members understand the scope of the project as well as what they are individually responsible to complete.
• Organize, attend and participate in project meetings.
• Document and follow up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
• Prepare necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Ensure project deadlines are met.
• Determine project changes and update associated documentation.
• Provide administrative support as needed.
• Undertake project tasks as required.
• Implement project management methodologies and standards.
• Assist with project risks and issue assessment, coordinate the development of mitigation/resolution plans, where applicable.
• Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution.
• Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute updated project documentation to all project team members.
• Ensure project standards, guidelines, and processes are applied and maintained across all technology projects.

• Must possess excellent time management, multitasking, and stress management skills. Ability to work on tight deadlines.
• Ability to adjust to multiple demands and constituencies by shifting priorities; and through rapid change and flexibility.
• Ability to motivate and influence others to stay on task and schedule.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Displays good judgement as it relates to issue and risk escalation.
• Advanced user MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project.
• Effectively establish and maintain good working relationships with all levels of management internal/external to project office.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team. Experience using computers for a variety of tasks.

• High School Diploma or GED and a minimum of 1 year project coordination or project management support experience OR Bachelors degree in related field and completion of relevant internship experience.
• Demonstrated experience working within cross-functional teams within a formalized methodology.
• IT background within the Banking industry preferred.
• Lean Certificate or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) preferred.

Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
$47,200.00
$78,700.00

Valley National Bank is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.