What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Coordinator - Finys Maintenance position at Virginia Farm Bureau Family of Companies?
Position Summary
A Project Coordinator at Virginia Farm Bureau is responsible for managing schedules, coordinating communications, creating and maintaining project documents, and providing leadership support to the acting Project Manager.
Primary Duties
A Project Coordinator at Virginia Farm Bureau is responsible for managing schedules, coordinating communications, creating and maintaining project documents, and providing leadership support to the acting Project Manager.
Primary Duties
- Responsible for the active oversight assigned project, evaluating progress and quality, as well as managing issue and risk resolution, and taking corrective action as necessary.
- Assists in measuring and reporting unbiased project progress to management.
- Ability to collect and analyze complete data.
- Ability to prepare and conduct effective presentations.
- Ensures user stories and bugs are adequately defined and uniformly understood.
- Leads a variety of project meetings, ensuring meetings are productive and effective, documentation is performed whether in the form of minutes, Mural board or Confluence updates.
- Demonstrated ability to articulate and resolve all delegated problems with minimal assistance from management.
- Coordinate project scheduling activities, including identifying project task dependencies and resource requirements, and assessing project risks/mitigation strategy all while adhering to business and strategic priorities.
- Responsible for updating, tracking and reporting results from Jira.
- Ability to solely manage small or sub projects.
- Builds and maintains a positive and professional relationship with internal Virginia Farm Bureau and Countryway customers as well as with vendors.
- As needed create, or participate in the creation of test plans.
- As needed create, or participate in the creation of project or process documentation.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems / Computer Science / Business or equivalent experience
- 2 years business analysis experience
- Experience in project management methodologies like Agile or Waterfall
- CAPM designation, preferred
- Experience working on Agile projects or initiatives
- Proficient in project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Mural or MS Project
- Property and Casualty insurance experience
- Experience using the Finys Insurance Processing System, preferred