WestpacNZ

Project Coordinator - 5 months contractor

Westpac on Takutai Square Full time

About us

At Westpac New Zealand, our purpose is to Help New Zealanders Succeed. As a Bank and one of New Zealand's leading employers, we are passionate about helping people. We are taking action today to create a better future for the people who bank with us, work with us, invest in us or are part of our broader communities. 

Mō te tūranga | About the role

We are looking for an experienced project co-ordinator with strong JIRA skills to join our Risk & Transformation delivery portfolio.  Role would include project administration tasks such as scheduling meetings or taking minutes, but may involve some entry-level delivery work

• Support Project and Programme Management. Provide coordination support including collation and preparation of reports and packs for distribution of all programme governance and SteerCo meetings as required. Minuting and managing registers for meetings actions and decisions.

• Delivery Framework & Governance. Support to ensure adherence to the WNZL delivery framework and ensuring artefacts such as stage gates documents and change requests are maintained in governance repositories.

• Risk, Issues, Assumptions and Dependency management. Proactively maintain project registers and follow-up on decisions, actions, risks and issues and change requests to ensure appropriate and timely resolution.

• Stakeholder and Project Communication. Assist with the communications related to project progress, issues and dependencies.

• Work with teams to maintain Jira milestones and other Enterprise tools are updated as required.

• Coordinate project logistics, room bookings, meeting invitations and workshops as needed

• Ordering of new equipment and organisation of workspaces and onboarding for team members.

• Perform related duties as assigned, within the scope of role and as required by the Programme Manager.

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

• Strong project management tools experience and software such as Jira (e.g. familiar with JIRA Advanced Roadmaps).

•  Understanding of project management principles, methodologies and best practices.

• High quality presentation skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Can take ownership of tasks

• Ability to connect with stakeholders at all levels

• Understanding of Industry knowledge in which the programme or initiative operates.