Project Coordinator

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Project Coordinator to join our team! In this remote role, you will provide project coordination and program-office support for Parsons’ execution of the FAA’s Brand New Air Traffic Control System. Your initial focus will be supporting the staffing, hiring, onboarding, and workforce-mobilization activities required to rapidly build the program team. You will also coordinate special projects, process improvements, management reporting, and other emerging program priorities.

This position is well suited for a highly organized and adaptable professional who can bring structure to complex activities, work across multiple organizations, solve problems, and take ownership of assignments from initial planning through completion.

T5 Program Summary: The Federal Aviation Administration awarded the Technical Support Services Contract 5, T5, to Parsons in April 2023. Parsons is the prime contractor. This $1.8+ billion contract has a 4-year base period with two 3-year options. The statement of work includes a variety of activities that support the FAA’s Capital Investment Plan, certain reimbursable programs, FAA modernization initiatives, national security programs, and aviation safety. Work includes site selection and engineering, construction, environmental and fire/life safety, equipment installation and testing, drafting, contract surveillance, and other technical services as required. Work is performed across the nation in each of the FAA’s nine regions, as well as at the Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and several U.S. territories.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Provide project coordination and program-office support for staffing, hiring, onboarding, workforce mobilization, management reporting, process improvement, and other assigned program initiatives.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, action-item logs, responsibility assignments, risk and issue registers, dependencies, and status reports for assigned activities.
• Work closely with program leadership, project managers, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, hiring managers, interview teams, security personnel, information technology teams, finance, and other functional organizations.
• Coordinate high-volume candidate activities from initial candidate identification and résumé review through interviews, selection, offers, pre-employment requirements, onboarding, and integration into the program.
• Organize interviews across multiple positions, candidates, interviewers, schedules, and time zones, ensuring that required information, decisions, and feedback are captured and communicated promptly.
• Maintain accurate staffing plans, requisition logs, candidate trackers, interview records, onboarding trackers, personnel status reports, and other program-management tools.
• Coordinate onboarding readiness activities, including start dates, required documentation, background and suitability processing, equipment, system access, training, orientation, and program integration.
• Monitor activities against established plans, schedules, and milestones; identify delays, gaps, or emerging risks; and work with responsible stakeholders to develop and complete corrective actions.
• Take ownership of assigned projects and coordination challenges, determine the actions required, engage the appropriate stakeholders, and drive activities through completion.
• Support special hiring campaigns, candidate outreach initiatives, workforce-planning efforts, and other projects intended to increase candidate flow, improve hiring throughput, and support program growth.
• Support change-management and communication activities associated with new processes, tools, reporting methods, onboarding practices, and other program improvements.
• Analyze staffing, hiring, onboarding, schedule, and program data to identify trends, bottlenecks, aging actions, resource constraints, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and maintain Excel-based trackers, dashboards, charts, reports, and analytical tools that provide leadership with clear, accurate, and timely management information.
• Support resource planning, labor forecasting, budget tracking, schedule monitoring, and performance reporting for assigned projects and program-off