Project Coordinator
vakansiya — 2024

Project Coordinator / Digital and Innovation Department

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Azerbaijan Tourism Board (ATB) is Azerbaijan’s national tourism organization. Our core tasks include the management of the “Holiday in Azerbaijan” brand, innovative marketing in the most internationally promising markets and the transfer of our knowledge of guests and markets to the domestic tourism industry. In this way we make an important contribution to the competitiveness of the holiday destination Azerbaijan.

The ideal candidate has a passion for state-of-the-art technology development, a strong background in software development projects as project coordinator, deep understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle – both Traditional and Agile) methodologies.

Brief:

We are looking for an experienced Project Coordinator to coordinate Digital/software/web development projects by defining project scope and schedule, while focusing regular and timely deliverables, to ensure the delivery of every project on time, within budget and scope.

Duties:

• Leading Scope definition of web products, software applications based on user/business needs
• Support the Product Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to implement an effective system of project governance
• Develop and design high level structure of the requirements in technical perspective, including workflows, use case diagrams. Translation the business requirements to user stories or use cases.
• Coordinate project activities, resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Provide the required hands-on project management, cross-functional coordination, and inter/intra team communications to deliver outstanding program outcomes.
• Overall controlling, monitoring and reporting of projects
• Leading Acceptance processes of end products in coordination with client groups and development partner-
• repare Tender Documentation for projects (RFI, RFP) and perform technical evaluation of the proposed solutions
• Designing and Leading Acceptance processes of end products in coordination with client groups and development partner

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent education and experience
• A proven track record of successfully implementing software or web development projects including 3+ years of experience as a Project Coordinator managing large, complex projects in a tech development environment with multi-function / multi-vendor teams.
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment
• Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate project tools (Jira / Microsoft Project/Visio)
• Understanding of web technologies
• Balanced business/technical background:
• Sufficient level of technical background to be able to accurately and objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
• Ability to transform ideas from stakeholders into technical requirements
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals at all levels
• Strong Time Management skills
• Ability to create structured and organized project documents, user manuals and reports
• Certificates on related fields is advantage
• Broad Experience on preparing Tender documentations (RFP, RFI)
• Excellent Azeri, English verbal communication and written skills, Russian is preferable.

Candidates are requested to send their CVs to job@tourismboard.az until 14.10.2020

Please indicate the name of the position (Project Coordinator) you are applying for in the subject line of the email.