PMO Analyst / Project Coordinator
Employee posted 2 months ago in Government / Public AdministrationJob Detail
- Job ID 12168
Job Description
PMO Analyst / Project Coordinator
Location: Remote, United States
Job Type: Full-Time
Work Arrangement: Remote
Department: PMO / Project Management / Business Operations / Transformation Office
Reports To: PMO Manager / Program Manager / Project Manager / Head of Delivery
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented PMO Analyst / Project Coordinator to support project reporting, scheduling, documentation, governance packs, and day-to-day project administration across multiple initiatives. This role plays a key part in maintaining structure, visibility, and coordination across project workstreams by ensuring timelines, updates, action logs, reports, and governance materials are accurate, current, and well-managed.
The ideal candidate has experience in project support or PMO functions and is comfortable handling reporting routines, meeting coordination, documentation control, status tracking, and follow-up activities. This person should be able to work across teams, keep stakeholders informed, and help ensure project governance processes are followed consistently.
This is a remote USA-based role, suited for someone with strong Excel, reporting, documentation, and coordination skills who can bring discipline and clarity to fast-moving project environments.
Key Responsibilities
Project Reporting & Status Tracking
- Maintain project reports, dashboards, trackers, and status updates across active initiatives
- Collect and consolidate updates from project managers, workstream leads, and stakeholders
- Monitor project status data including milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, actions, and delivery progress
- Prepare regular reporting packs for leadership, governance forums, and project review meetings
- Ensure reporting is accurate, timely, and aligned with project governance standards
Milestone, Action Log & Schedule Support
- Track project milestones, deadlines, deliverables, and action items across workstreams
- Maintain RAID logs, action logs, decision logs, and project schedule trackers
- Follow up with owners to ensure updates, actions, and deliverables are captured and progressed
- Support schedule coordination by helping maintain timelines, calendars, and key reporting dates
- Identify slippage, missing updates, or coordination gaps and escalate where needed
Documentation & Governance Support
- Maintain project documentation including plans, meeting notes, governance packs, status reports, trackers, and supporting materials
- Organize and control documentation to ensure version accuracy, accessibility, and consistency
- Prepare materials for steering committees, governance meetings, project reviews, and internal check-ins
- Support governance routines by ensuring reporting templates, review documents, and approval materials are ready on time
- Help maintain standards for project record-keeping, documentation quality, and administrative accuracy
Meeting Cadence & Coordination
- Support recurring project meetings, governance forums, and workstream check-ins by preparing agendas, materials, and follow-up notes
- Capture meeting actions, decisions, and outstanding items, then track them through to closure
- Coordinate meeting schedules, attendees, and documentation across cross-functional teams
- Help maintain meeting cadence and ensure governance routines are followed consistently
- Assist project managers and PMO leads with communication and coordination across stakeholders
Cross-Workstream Coordination
- Help maintain coordination across workstreams by keeping trackers updated and ensuring shared visibility of progress and blockers
- Support collaboration between teams by organizing updates, following up on dependencies, and highlighting risks to timelines
- Assist in ensuring information flows clearly between business, technical, operational, and project stakeholders
- Provide administrative and reporting support to help project teams stay aligned and organized
- Contribute to smooth day-to-day project operations through reliable follow-up and structured coordination
Administrative & PMO Support
- Support general PMO and project administration activities as required across programs and initiatives
- Maintain templates, reporting structures, governance formats, and standard project documents
- Assist with onboarding project team members into reporting routines, document repositories, and meeting structures
- Support audit readiness and project traceability through strong documentation and record maintenance
- Contribute to continuous improvement of project support processes, reporting methods, and PMO standards
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Operations, Information Systems, or a related field preferred
- Proven experience in project support, project coordination, PMO administration, project reporting, or delivery support
- Strong organizational and reporting skills
- Experience supporting project governance, schedules, status reporting, and documentation management
- Strong Excel skills and confidence working with trackers, logs, reporting sheets, and structured project data
- Strong documentation, note-taking, and follow-up discipline
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholder inputs in a remote environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- High attention to detail and ability to maintain accuracy across project records
- Ability to work collaboratively with project managers, workstream leads, and stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in PMO, transformation, delivery, technology, operations, or consulting environments
- Familiarity with project management tools such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, Trello, Monday.com, ClickUp, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar
- Experience maintaining RAID logs, governance packs, status reports, project plans, and meeting trackers
- Understanding of project lifecycle stages, governance forums, reporting cycles, and delivery support processes
- Exposure to Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project environments
- Ability to prepare structured summaries and executive-ready reporting materials
- Experience supporting multiple parallel projects, programs, or workstreams
- PMO, project coordination, or project management certification is a plus
Core Skills
- Project coordination
- PMO support
- Status reporting
- Milestone tracking
- Action log management
- Documentation control
- Governance pack preparation
- Meeting coordination
- Schedule support
- RAID log maintenance
- Excel reporting
- Stakeholder follow-up
- Cross-workstream coordination
- Administrative support
- Delivery tracking
Key Competencies
- Strong organization and time management
- High attention to detail
- Consistent follow-up and accountability
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Structured and methodical working style
- Reliability and discipline
- Ability to manage moving parts effectively
- Professional stakeholder coordination
- Problem awareness and escalation judgment
- Adaptability in fast-paced project environments
Success Metrics
- Accuracy and timeliness of project reports and governance materials
- Effective tracking of milestones, actions, risks, and dependencies
- Strong documentation quality and version control
- Reliable support of meeting cadence and governance routines
- Improved visibility across workstreams and project status
- Timely follow-up on actions and stakeholder updates
- Positive feedback from project managers and PMO leadership on coordination support
Working Conditions
- Fully remote role based in the United States
- Standard business hours aligned with U.S. time zones
- Frequent collaboration with project managers, PMO teams, business stakeholders, and delivery workstreams through virtual meetings and project tool
