Project Coordinator Responsibilities
- The creation of project management documents such as budgets, schedules, scope statements, and plans.
- Supervise the project procurement process
- Meeting with project clients to assess their needs and define project requirements, acceptance criteria and project timelines
- Coordinate the allocation of project resources to ensure the project team has what’s needed at the right time
- Assign tasks to team members and help them understand what’s expected from them in terms of project milestones and deliverables
- Be the liaison between the project team and project clients throughout the project life cycle
- Help project managers monitor project progress and team members’ performance and provide updates to project stakeholders
- Schedule stakeholder meetings, document and generate reports
- Foster cross-team collaboration to help project team members complete project tasks and produce deliverables
Project Coordinator Skills
- Knowledge in preparing quotations, including Bills of Quantities (BOQ) and Schedules of Rates (SOR).
- Project coordinators interact with many individuals throughout the life cycle of a project, such as project managers, project sponsors, stakeholders and of course, the project team. For this reason, project coordinators must demonstrate excellent communication skills.
- There will be issues, challenges and different types of problems, big and small. For this reason, project coordinators must have problem-solving skills that allow them to quickly come up with solutions and strategies.
- As projects are executed, there are many variables to control, and many situations that might force the project management team to make changes to the original project plan. Project coordinators must be able to adapt to these changes.
- Project coordination, as its name suggests it’s a demanding field that requires organizational skills such as time management, delegation, planning, goal setting and decision-making, among others that’ll help the project coordinator be on top of his own duties and responsibilities and monitor the performance of others.
- An experience of three to four years working on building construction in Singapore, with a Diploma or Degree.
