Job Description :
Launch Your Career with Cook Systems
Ready to elevate your career? Cook Systems, a certified veteran owned IT consulting firm, has been transforming businesses and careers since 1990. Whether you're aiming to work with a Fortune 500 company or a small business, we've got you covered.
Our core values: integrity, investment, and innovation drive everything we do, ensuring you grow and succeed in a dynamic, supportive environment. We understand the importance of work life balance and personal growth. Our cutting edge IT consulting partners and FastTrack talent program are designed to help you excel.
Join our forward thinking team where excellence and creativity are valued every day. Check out what our associates have to say on Glassdoor. Ready to take your career to new heights? Cook Systems is where your journey to success begins!
2 submittals - pay rate $32.25 - Web Cam and In Person Interviews.
Under project manager supervision, applies project management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques in supporting the State Accounting Office's (SAO) NextGen Project (Workday Implementation) activities and tasks. The project coordinator is responsible for tracking project activities and tasks for a specific business suite or multiple workstreams. This includes but is not limited to, scheduling and attending meetings, capturing, and disseminating meeting minutes, receiving project documents and compiling a summary, aiding in the development of communication material such as emails, newsletters or PowerPoint presentation, updating project schedules and RAID log.
Local Candidates only as they will be required to be onsite.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
1. Coordinates, schedules, and attends project related meetings.
2. Transcribes and disseminates project meeting minutes.
3. Documents, tracks and receives project documentation and deliverables.
4. Send follow-ups as necessary to ensure project activities are completed in a timely manner.
5. Shares information and updates with project team members as relevant to project activities.
6. Documents and tracks project risks, issues, action items and decisions as part of the project management activities.
7. Assist PM in developing necessary documents, presentations or reports
8. Follow-up and track project statuses and update the project tracking system with pertinent information
9. Create project related reports from the project work breakdown structure
10. Work with PMs on documenting project scope and high-level requirements
11. Disseminate information related to project schedules.
12. Coordinate NextGen quality review and steering committee meetings. Capture notes and action items and disseminate as appropriate
13. Ensure all project related artifacts are stored in the proper location within the NextGen Project SharePoint site.
14. Assist in tracking, monitoring, and communicating project-related issues, scope changes, variances and contingencies that may arise during the implementation of the NextGen Project.
15. Maintain effective communication and working relationships with project team members
16. Other responsibilities added per management?s discretion
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university AND One year of IT related experience. OR Associate's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university and three years of IT related experience. Note: An equivalent combination of education and job specific experience that provided the knowledge, experience and competencies required to successfully perform the job at the level listed may be substituted on a year-over-year basis.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Prefer experience using Microsoft Project or Microsoft Project Online.
2. Experienced in using Outlook, Visio, and the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
3. Excellent written, oral and presentation skills
4. Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
5. Ability to communicate to management, business, and technical personnel
6. Ability to work through conflict
7. An eye for detail and excellent grammar
8. Ability to multi-task
Tracking IT project activities and tasks for a specific business suite or multiple workstreams
Required
1
Years
Experienced in using Outlook, Visio, and the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
Required
2
Years
Prefer experience using Microsoft Project or Microsoft Project Online.
Required
2
Years
Why Work with Us
Benefits
At Cook Systems, we don't just offer jobs we build futures. Our team is the heart of everything we do, and we're committed to supporting you with benefits that go beyond the basics. We want you to feel secure, valued, and empowered from the very beginning of your journey with us. When you join Cook Systems, here's what you can look forward to:
Your Health, Your Way: Choose from two comprehensive medical plans through Blue Cross Blue Shield, complete with dental and vision coverage. With access to one of the nation's largest networks, you'll get the care you need for yourself and your family wherever life takes you.
Peace of Mind, Every Step of the Way: Protect what matters most with life, critical illness, and accident insurance through Unum. Because your loved ones deserve security no matter what the future holds.
Flexibility for Life's Needs: Save money and plan ahead with a Flexible Spending Account and Daycare FSA through Navia, helping you manage healthcare and dependent care expenses on your terms.
Bridging the Gaps: Unexpected costs? No problem. Our Health Gap Insurance through Sunlife helps ensure you're covered when it counts.
Your Future Starts Now: Dream big with our 401(k) retirement plan through The Standard. After just six months, you will be eligible to participate, because your future deserves a strong foundation.
At Cook Systems, you're not just another employee you're family. Here, your ideas matter, your contributions shine, and your career will thrive. Together, we innovate, grow, and celebrate success every step of the way. Are you ready to be part of something bigger? Let's build the future together at Cook Systems.