Project Coordinator Jobs

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Job Title: Project Coordinator

Job Location: Ft. Belvoir, VA

Job Type: Full time 40 hours

Travel Requirement: Up to 25%.

Clearance: Secret

Sherpa 6 has an exciting opportunity for a fast-learning and highly driven Project Coordinator to join our team. The Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier Project Coordinator (PC) works directly for Nett Warrior leadership by serving as a project lead supporting equipment evaluations, new equipment training, and new equipment fielding. The PC is also expected to coordinate training and evaluation events between Army acquisitions, vendors, and the end users and facilitate coordinating the appropriate resources for each event. This position will reside on-site with the Government and will serve as the conduit between end user leadership and PEO leadership to ensure the government is effective in maximizing opportunities to accomplish assigned tasks in support of Army warfighters.

A Project Coordinator at this level will be expected to understand the acquisitions process requirements development, Decision Support Systems, Life Cycle Integration, System of Systems, and Joint and International programs. The PC will also assist with forging stakeholder relationships, synchronizing project support teams, and managing priorities and deadlines.

As a Project Coordinator who is often co-located with the end users, the PC will serve as a Subject Matter Expert for systems engineering and integration, communications, and soldier power equipment. Project coordinators are expected to have excellent oral and written communication skills and must be able to manage projects, schedules, and prepare briefings both internally to fellow employees and management and externally to the customer. Since this customer’s portfolio is large and often changing, the PC will be expected to stay abreast of the current and future efforts and seek information from their team of experts as well as academia to ensure they are making educated recommendations for technology maturation and transition.

Daily Tasks

• Lead projects that are assigned by PEO Soldier and subordinate program management.
• Attend daily meetings and advises at the O-4 through O-7 and government civilians.
• Participate in IPTs across PEO Solders, ASA(ALT), Army Futures Command, USMC and USSOCOM.
• Capture customer priorities, pain points and feedback; communicate both directions.
• Communicate customer priorities internal to the company and advise or collaborate with Project and Functional Managers of how we can best support.
• Develop and maintain continuity of all project efforts, documentation, and methodologies for transitioning technologies or solutions within the program.
• Create and brief Schedules, CONOPs, EXSUMs, and facilitate test activities.

Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Self-educates, teaches, and advises government customers on hardware and software in the PEO Solider portfolio.
• Manage and attend meetings with vendors and 3rd party program offices.
• Communicates with clients to identify and define project requirements, scope, and objectives.
• Adheres to budget by monitoring expenses and implementing cost-saving measures as directed by the government.
• Directs project correspondences by preparing and reviewing project proposals, memos, meeting minutes and emails.
• Manages project-related paperwork by ensuring all necessary materials are current, properly filed and stored.
• Advises leadership on Technical and Tactical integration based on personal experience, input from the collective team, and feedback from user group touchpoints.
• Supervises current projects and coordinate all team members to keep workflow on track as directed by the government customer.
• Attends meetings w/ government and vendor stakeholders, takes notes and synthesizes them into a shared understanding across the team and recommended action items to the government leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be a US citizen.
• Proven background and experience with senior leader engagements to read, write, and brief at the corporate level.
• 5-10+ years of experience in a combat arms, communication, or 4 years of DoD experience with a degree in an engineering discipline.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, Power Point, and Project).
• Proven Problem-Solving Skills.
• Critical Thinking Skills.
• Knowledge of PEO Portfolio.
• Must pass a background check and drug screening.
• 4 Years College Education.

Preferred Experience

• Graduate degree.
• Experience in PEO Soldier.
• Strong Communication and Presentation Skills.
• 15+ years relevant military experience in C4I employment, maintenance, and training.
• 10 years of Special Operations experience.
• Strategic Thinker.
• Strong Interpersonal Skills.

Background Screening/Check/Investigation

Successful completion of a background screening/check/investigation will/may be required as a condition of hire.

Ada

Sherpa 6 will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990.

Eeo/Aa

Sherpa 6 does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, height, weight, or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access/opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.

About Sherpa 6

At Sherpa 6 we love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our approach to a problem is to find a user-focused and design-driven solution that is simple yet functional and effective. We are a group of enthusiastic forward-thinkers who are excited to build amazing solutions with bleeding-edge technology. We hire people who are forward thinkers, passionate about what they do, love to collaborate and want to constantly learn. We enjoy what we do and we're not afraid to put the extra effort in to accomplish the mission; call us Sherpas. As a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, we know what it means to serve. We have made it our mission to be the leaders in solutions that protect and give our Warfighters the edge they need when put into harm's way.