What are the responsibilities and job description for the 1099 Learning Project Coordinator position at Performance Development Group?
About PDG
Performance Development Group is an award-winning, global leader helping companies produce high-quality business results through learning. We provide collaborative advisory services and innovative performance improvement solutions and are recognized as a premier company in our field.
Here at PDG, we complement our learning and creative teams with professional consultants who help us to scale effortlessly, optimize creativity, and deliver award-winning learning programs. Our network of consultants loves to work with us, and here are some of the reasons why they find a relationship with PDG to be so valuable to them:
- Variety is the spice of life: PDG’s wide variety of learning projects allows you to be a part of the design and development of award-winning programs that help to move the needle on employee performance while enhancing your experience and skills
- We enable you to "stay in your lane": We have a superstar team of salespeople who work with some of the most exciting companies in the world. We handle all the business development, scoping, and proposal writing so you can focus on doing what you enjoy doing the most.
- The devil is in the details: We contract with the clients and handle all the logistics, absorbing the risk so you don’t have to worry about a thing. We also provide a wide array of tools and templates to make gigs easier for you while you work with us. Our team will make sure that you are set up for success with our thorough onboarding program and consultant toolkit.
- We show you the money!!: PDG pays a generous hourly rate, and your invoices are paid on time regardless of when our clients pay us.
- We are just nice: When we ask our professional consultants what they like best about working with PDG, we always hear that our team is super friendly and we treat our consultants like part of the family, which they don’t find in their other clients.
PDG is looking for a 1099 Learning Project Coordinator. This is a 1099 role and pays an hourly rate commensurate with the role. This work is scheduled to start around May 1, 2025, and end on or around August 31, 2025. The number of hours per week will vary, but it will usually be 10-30 hours. Contact extensions are possible.
The interview process for this role includes the following
- Resume review
- Talent Acquisition screening
- Hiring manager interview and work sample review or editorial exercise
Position Summary
The Learning Project Coordinator provides project coordination, administrative, and logistical support for PDG’s account-based teams. The Learning Project Coordinator is responsible for the administrative tasks required to support the creation and delivery of PDG’s sales performance solutions. The Learning Project Coordinator works collaboratively across PDG’s cross-functional team to help the team achieve client business goals.
Responsibilities
The Learning Project Coordinator will:
- Coordinate, schedule, track, and monitor project activities; escalate issues as appropriate.
- Assist with the creation of project plans in Smartsheet
- Lead document management efforts in Microsoft SharePoint, ensuring that all users have appropriate permissions and access to source files and other relevant project documents.
- Take responsibility for coordinating, uploading, and tagging content across multiple projects into VEEVA for client medical, legal, and regulatory review.
- Support project teams in the management of project functions by scheduling meetings, calls, facilitating communication and information flow, and other actions.
- Assist project leads in tracking and managing risks, issues, and change requests and updating project artifacts as needed.
- Support and attend meetings; record action items and minutes and distribute to all project team members.
- Effectively and accurately monitor and communicate relevant project information to stakeholders, clients, senior management, and project team. Provides status updates.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
The Learning Project Coordinator will have the following qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required or commensurate experience
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a project manager or project coordinator required, preferably on large-scale custom learning solutions projects
General Knowledge and Skills
- Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Possesses the initiative to connect and identify opportunities for support and growth. Eager to learn
- Excel at taking direction, is detail-oriented, with superb organizational skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple clients and responsibilities with tight deadlines
- Positive, 'service-oriented’ attitude; always willing to learn
- Good analytical/technical skills
- Comfortable with data management/data manipulation
- Proficient in MS Office, including Excel, Teams, and SharePoint
- Ability to be proactive with internal clients
- Comfortable working in a team environment
- Experience with Smartsheet a plus
