Project Coordinator

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Your typical day as a Project Coordinator at Optus

In the role of Project Coordinator, you will be instrumental in guaranteeing the successful completion of our projects. Your responsibilities will include delivering excellent project administrative assistance to our Project Manager, aiding in the coordination and oversight of tasks like planning, tracking, reporting, quality management, and communication. You will generate detailed reports encompassing summaries of breakthroughs, key challenges, risks, and project expenditures.

As part of this role, you will contribute to the timely delivery of projects within budget and meeting the highest quality standards. You will be essential in appropriately assigning resources to projects and handling relationships with a diverse group of collaborators. Moreover, you will assist in overseeing the work of different resources, allocating and applying them efficiently while nurturing a cooperative, motivated, and successful team.

Your skills to pay the bills

- Proven ability to assist in project planning by collaborating with project managers to develop comprehensive action plans, including prioritisation, timelines, and budgets.
- Outstanding coordination skills to lead all aspects of project activities, ensuring tasks are completed on schedule and within budget, which includes scheduling meetings, tracking progress, and managing documentation.
- Strong communication skills to act as a bridge between project teams, collaborators, and clients, sharing project status updates and resolving any issues that come up.
- Meticulous documentation skills to maintain project documentation, including project plans, timelines, budgets, and reports, ensuring all information is accurate and up-to-date.
- Competence in risk management to identify potential project risks and assist in developing strategies to mitigate them, ensuring smooth project execution.
- Administrative support expertise to provide administrative assistance to project teams, including scheduling, filing, and correspondence, to facilitate efficient project operations.

Perks we love at Optus

- 3 days in the office, 2 days remote – with flexible hours to suit
- Inclusive carer neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks
- Competitive leave including 2 'Connected Leave' days
- All Optus colleagues can access resources, webinars, and support through the ‘Parents at Work portal’
- Own your own growth by accessing an extensive online and facilitator led learning catalogue.
- Connect at work through our colleague-led volunteer groups: Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+), United Veterans, Yarn Network, Wellbeing Network and Young Professionals.

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At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please emailAccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170. We're here to help. When you contact us, please advise your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours.

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity.

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