The Professional Services team at Rackspace delivers a wide range of projects for both clients and business partners. The Project Coordinator role performs the administrative and operational work required to run the business and deliver to customers.
What you’ll be doing
- Coordinating project schedules, budget, and status reporting
- Leading small projects from the perspective of budget monitoring and control, invoice the clients, approve timesheets, and maintain the project deliverables.
- Provide back up support for additional operations tasks, including: Weekly and monthly reporting, Deck creation, Training content creation, Process documentation and Integration support
- Continue formal training on Agile and traditional project management, achieving certification
- Provide ad hoc administrative support to members of the delivery team
- Administration of FinancialForce, including set up of new projects, creating and modifying assignments, timesheet adjustments, and running reports
- Administration of JIRA and Confluence, such as creating new projects and spaces, handling user access requests, troubleshooting access and functionality
- Shadow Engagement and Project Managers in preparation for a future Engagement/Project Manager Role
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering/Science, or equivalent technology professional experience
- At least 2 years of experience as a project coordinator or project assistant role
- Having experience in software or IT industries is a must.
- Proven budgeting experience is a must.
- Experience in project management, from conception to delivery
- Strong communication, presentation, excel and reporting skills
- Detail oriented with exceptional documentation and organizational skills
- Analytical thinker with the ability to understand business reporting
- Able to work independently and manage and prioritize numerous incoming tasks
- Ability to work in a fast-paced consulting environment and collaborate effectively as a team member
- Having cloud background in AWS, GCP and/or Azure is a big plus
- PMP or Prince2 is a plus
What You’ll Be Doing Next
- This role is preparatory to becoming a full time Engagement Manager in the Professional Services practice
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About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
More on Rackspace Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
