Roles Strategy & Transformation
Project Coordinator
Accountable for keeping project plans, risk and issue logs, actions and reporting accurate and current.
3tasks in this job
2skills it uses
8tools named
The skills this job leans on most
- 1Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limitsNeeded in 3 of 3 tasks
- 2Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responsesNeeded in 2 of 3 tasks
- 3Planning delivery dependencies and the critical pathNeeded in 2 of 3 tasks
- 4Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makersNeeded in 1 of 3 tasks
- 5Testing the completeness and accuracy of reports and data that controls rely onCore to this role
ToolsMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft ProjectJiraSmartsheetAntura ProjectsMicrosoft SharePointMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft Power BI
All 3 tasks, where people get stuck and all 2 skills
Tasks
- Control project or programme risks, issues, dependencies and change requests
- Prepare a periodic performance or risk report for a management or governance committee
- Forecast project cost and schedule against the baseline and explain variance
Where people get stuck
- Verifying project progress against accepted outcomes
- Forecasting project cost and schedule from progress evidence
All skills
Paths to start
Tool Path
Excel for Analysis and Decision Models
Build and check Excel workbooks others can trust.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Runs in
- Your browser
Skill Path
Evidence-based Briefing and Influence
Brief and influence accountable decision-makers with evidence, its limits and unwelcome findings, and check the message landed.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Coming soonDelivering Data and AI Projects with Evidence
3tasks in this job
41skills it uses
10tools named
The skills this job leans on most
- 1Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limitsNeeded in 3 of 3 tasks
- 2Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responsesNeeded in 2 of 3 tasks
- 3Planning delivery dependencies and the critical pathNeeded in 2 of 3 tasks
- 4Verifying project progress against accepted outcomesNeeded in 2 of 3 tasks
- 5Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makersNeeded in 1 of 3 tasks
ToolsMicrosoft ProjectJiraSmartsheetAntura ProjectsMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPoint+ 4 more
All 3 tasks, where people get stuck and all 41 skills
Tasks
- Control project or programme risks, issues, dependencies and change requests
- Prepare a periodic performance or risk report for a management or governance committee
- Forecast project cost and schedule against the baseline and explain variance
Where people get stuck
All skills
- Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responses
- Planning delivery dependencies and the critical path
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Verifying project progress against accepted outcomes
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
- Assigning and operating data ownership and stewardship
- Building decision-focused reports and dashboards
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Communicating sensitive or unwelcome analytical findings
- Constructing clear and honest charts
- Coordinating accountable handoffs between teams
- Designing efficient and reproducible investigations
- Diagnosing data quality exceptions
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Diagnosing operational handoffs and flow
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Evaluating and improving chart accessibility
- Explaining technical work to accountable non-specialists
- Facilitating evidence-led retrospectives and corrective actions
- Forecasting project cost and schedule from progress evidence
- Influencing change without formal authority
- Interpreting correlation without inferring cause
- Interpreting policy scope and delegated authority limits
- Investigating anomalies
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Judging whether uncertainty changes the decision
- Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidence
- Reading charts and dashboards correctly, including their state
- Recognising and resolving ethical conflicts in data and AI work
- Recognising misleading numerical claims
- Recognising statutory incident reporting duties and deadlines
- Reconciling conflicting reports
- Repairing data defects reversibly under owner authority
- Selecting charts for evidence and decisions
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Tracing data lineage upstream and downstream
- Validating records by matching, recomputation and end-to-end tracing
- Working through stakeholder conflict over evidence and responsibility
- Writing verifiable requirements and acceptance criteria
All tools
- Microsoft Project
- Jira
- Smartsheet
- Antura Projects
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Power BI
- Power Query
- SAP S/4HANA
- Visma ERP and accounting
Paths to start
Tool Path
Excel for Analysis and Decision Models
Build and check Excel workbooks others can trust.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Runs in
- Your browser
Skill Path
Evidence-based Briefing and Influence
Brief and influence accountable decision-makers with evidence, its limits and unwelcome findings, and check the message landed.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Coming soonDelivering Data and AI Projects with EvidenceData Product Reliability: Release Gates, Service Levels and Incidents
4tasks in this job
56skills it uses
12tools named
The skills this job leans on most
- 1Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limitsNeeded in 4 of 4 tasks
- 2Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responsesNeeded in 2 of 4 tasks
- 3Planning delivery dependencies and the critical pathNeeded in 2 of 4 tasks
- 4Verifying project progress against accepted outcomesNeeded in 2 of 4 tasks
- 5Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makersNeeded in 1 of 4 tasks
ToolsMicrosoft ProjectSmartsheetJiraMicrosoft SharePointMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft Power BI+ 6 more
All 4 tasks, where people get stuck and all 56 skills
Tasks
- Control project or programme risks, issues, dependencies and change requests
- Prepare a periodic performance or risk report for a management or governance committee
- Automate a recurring reporting or data task with controls and a named owner
- Forecast project cost and schedule against the baseline and explain variance
Where people get stuck
All skills
- Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responses
- Planning delivery dependencies and the critical path
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Verifying project progress against accepted outcomes
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
- Assigning and operating data ownership and stewardship
- Building data protection by design into data products and pipelines
- Building decision-focused reports and dashboards
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Communicating sensitive or unwelcome analytical findings
- Constructing clear and honest charts
- Coordinating accountable handoffs between teams
- Designing automated pipelines and processes that fail safely and recover
- Designing efficient and reproducible investigations
- Designing semantic models for governed analytics
- Diagnosing data quality exceptions
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Diagnosing operational handoffs and flow
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Establishing and declaring data grain
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Evaluating and improving chart accessibility
- Explaining technical work to accountable non-specialists
- Facilitating evidence-led retrospectives and corrective actions
- Forecasting project cost and schedule from progress evidence
- Gating releases on evidence with rollback ready
- Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI work
- Identifying keys and testing referential integrity
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Influencing change without formal authority
- Interpreting correlation without inferring cause
- Interpreting policy scope and delegated authority limits
- Investigating anomalies
- Judging the materiality of defects and deficiencies for the intended use
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Judging whether uncertainty changes the decision
- Monitoring data quality and freshness in production
- Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidence
- Reading charts and dashboards correctly, including their state
- Recognising and resolving ethical conflicts in data and AI work
- Recognising misleading numerical claims
- Recognising statutory incident reporting duties and deadlines
- Reconciling conflicting reports
- Repairing data defects reversibly under owner authority
- Sampling and reviewing a team's work against standards
- Selecting charts for evidence and decisions
- Standardising and cleaning data under agreed rules
- Testing changes to data services and business systems for business meaning and downstream impact
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Tracing data lineage upstream and downstream
- Validating records by matching, recomputation and end-to-end tracing
- Verifying AI-assisted outputs against sources
- Verifying reports and dashboards before and after release
- Working through stakeholder conflict over evidence and responsibility
- Writing verifiable requirements and acceptance criteria
All tools
- Microsoft Project
- Smartsheet
- Jira
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Power BI
- Power Automate
- Power Query
- Microsoft Excel
- SAP S/4HANA
- Visma ERP and accounting
- Antura Projects
Paths to start
Skill Path
Data Literacy for Business Decisions
Judge whether a business claim from a table, KPI, chart or dashboard really holds up.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Skill Path
Evidence-based Briefing and Influence
Brief and influence accountable decision-makers with evidence, its limits and unwelcome findings, and check the message landed.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Coming soonDelivering Data and AI Projects with EvidenceData Product Reliability: Release Gates, Service Levels and Incidents
About the role
Accountable for keeping project plans, risk and issue logs, actions and reporting accurate and current. Coordinates meetings, schedules and project records for one or more projects without managing people. Data judgement sits in keeping delivery data complete and flagging when reported progress does not match the evidence.
Also called Project Administrator, PMO Analyst, Project Support Officer, PMO Officer