Project Coordinator/Scrum Master

Project Coordinator/Scrum Master

9 Month Contract

Hybrid in Tacoma, WA

$60-65/hr W2

This position is responsible for aligning activities, deliverables, and resources across multiple projects to optimize efficiency, effectiveness, and oversight. They promote and participate in consistent standardized project management processes and tools while serving as an integrative hub to improve visibility through consolidated reporting to stakeholders. Project coordinators also assess and enhance project performance, controls and project team collaboration to enable programs to achieve strategic objectives.

Additionally, this position will facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, backlog refinement, and retrospectives. The Scrum Master will work closely with the project team and stakeholders and ensure all requirements are identified and put in product backlog. They will also be responsible for identifying and communicating impediments as needed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Detailed project schedules
• Track and report on project status, resource utilization, and capacity issues.
• Lead engagements with PMO project tracking solution for initiatives across all portfolio types.
• Assist Project Managers with project related coordination, across an array of project activities as needed.
• Assist in updating/developing templates, knowledge management systems and communications tools deployed across all projects.
• Audit project artifacts and performance for standards compliance, quality assurance, and identification of improvements.
• Analyze performance trends, compile lessons learned, and participate in continuous improvement initiatives to project management standards and governance.
• Consolidate project reporting and status updates.
• Successful facilitation of Scrum ceremonies
• Management of product backlog, including refinement and prioritization
• Documentation of Lessons Learned
• Qualifications:
• 3 years of work experience in project coordination, planning, or project support.
• 2 years of Scrum Master experience
• Experience using project management software tools.
• Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies
• Experience facilitating workshops
• Experience with Microsoft Office product suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Test Manager experience, specifically following Agile methodologies
• Desired: Utility experience

Competencies:

• Organization – Exceptional organizational abilities, including scheduling and resource planning. Ability to develop and maintain standards. Efficient management of product backlog, including regularly updating and prioritizing.
• Contract Administration – Review invoices against SOWs and contracts
• Financial Analyst – Review budget vs actuals, as well as forecasting
• Coordination Skills – Ability to track numerous activities, align moving parts and manage dependencies across multiple projects.
• Communication Skills – Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaborating with diverse teams, compiling reports, and presenting to all levels.
• Analytical Skills – Capacity to interpret project data, identify trends/interdependencies, address issues, and improve processes.
• Multi-Tasking – Able to balance and progress numerous coordinator responsibilities simultaneously. Comfort with switching contexts often.
• Team Orientation – Inclination to take a collaborative approach based on relationships, clarity and transparency.
• Technical Aptitude – Proficiency with PM tools/software. Quick learner of new systems and able to create support documentation.
• Leadership – Demonstrates confidence, professionalism, initiative, and commitment to organization goals.
• Flexibility – Adapts positively to changing priorities, processes, and people. Stays focused in fast-paced environments.
• Decision Making – Applies sound judgement by analyzing alternatives and assessing tradeoffs to provide recommendations.
• Test Planning and Execution – Creating test cases, identifying risks, manage and track defects

Eight Eleven group offers Health, Dental and Vision benefits, weekly pay, holiday paid time off and sick leave. Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.