Project Coordinator

The Opportunity:

Davis Pier is seeking a full-time Project Coordinator to join our consulting firm in Halifax, NS. The successful candidate will support firm success by ensuring accurate data management for various aspects of projects, including budgets, resources, timelines, capacities, and project health. This role involves proactive identification of potential issues, ensuring project data is up to date, facilitating communication between project managers and leadership, and creating detailed reports and dashboards to provide comprehensive oversight of the firm. The Project Coordinator will also handle various administrative and organizational activities to support the firm's efficiency and effectiveness.

We know a consulting firm is only as good as its professionals and we pride ourselves on hiring the highest quality people who share our values: integrity, collaboration, diversity, flexibility, impact, and fun.

Responsibilities:

1. Project Coordination:
   • Support firm reporting related to project budgets, resources, timelines, capacities and overall project health on a regular basis
   • Support maintenance of project data across organization by working closely with Project Managers and leads
   • Identify and flag current and potential issues within projects related to budgets, resourcing, and timelines
2. Reporting and Dashboarding:
   • Create comprehensive dashboards to track project health, data and other valuable insights
   • Develop and present reports summarizing project insight for leadership meetings
3. Communication:
   • Maintain open lines of communication with project managers and leadership
   • Attend leadership meetings when necessary and present project summary reports
   • Ensure there are no gaps in information between project teams and leadership
   • Hold PMs accountable for keeping project data up to date
4. Administrative and Organizational Activities:
   • Organize and schedule meetings with PMs and leadership as necessary
   • Enter, organize, and extract data from Kantata
   • Organize documents and folders within SharePoint
   • Create document templates to help with standardization of work

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s level degree or equivalent
• Previous experience in professional project settings
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills
• Strong time management abilities
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to take initiative be proactive
• Understanding of descriptive statistics and data
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft applications

Perks of Working with Davis Pier:

• Comprehensive health and dental benefits plan including an Employee and Family Assistance Program (co pay)
• Four weeks of vacation annually
• Hybrid working options after first few months with the firm
• Annual Healthy Living Allowance
• Profit-sharing incentives
• Regular social and team-building events
• Peer Mentorship Program
• Beautiful modern office located downtown in the Brewery Market building
• B Corp certified company
• Collaborative, welcoming, and supportive team

About Davis Pier:

Davis Pier is a professional services firm that provides innovative solutions to complex government and social challenges. Our team consists of over 90 people in Halifax, Toronto, and Charlottetown with varied backgrounds including strategists, project managers, engineers, public policy experts, interdisciplinary designers, technologists, and researchers educated in areas such as business, engineering, public administration, psychology, economics, and behavioural science.

We work with public and non-profit sector organizations in Canada and internationally to deliver the services necessary to improve society and the lives of others by designing, planning, and implementing lasting change. Our ability to collaborate with clients and implement these solutions is what sets us apart. The approaches we use to design, plan, and manage change allow us to deliver exceptional value and integrate seamlessly with our clients. Our success in supporting these complex projects resulted in us receiving the 2020 Halifax Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year award.

Commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds and who are representative of the communities that we serve, in particular those with lived experience of the barriers individuals face to employment. Davis Pier is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to creating a workplace culture of inclusiveness that reflects the diverse communities that we serve. We encourage applications from women, BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+ and people with disabilities as we strive to build a more inclusive society. If you will require accommodations at any stage of the selection process, please state the nature of the accommodations in your cover note. In your application, please feel free to note your preferred pronouns (for example – she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs).

Please include your resume and cover letter with your application.

What’s the Process?

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