Position Overview:
The Program Coordinator and Scheduler will play a crucial role in supporting the Enterprise Transformation team. This individual will be responsible for coordinating various program activities, maintaining schedules, ensuring that all project milestones are met on time, and ensuring the efficient flow of information within the organization. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management, excellent organizational skills, and experience with MS Project. This is a contract position for three months with the potential to extend.
Key Responsibilities:
Program Coordination:
- Assist in the planning and execution of enterprise transformation initiatives and their implementation
- Coordinate and schedule meetings, workshops, and other program-related activities
- Prepare and distribute meeting agendas, minutes, and follow-up action items
- Communicate with stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding of project objectives and deliverables
- Handle incoming and outgoing communications and directing them to the appropriate parties as necessary
- Maintain the program-wide task tracker and proactively identify deviations from plans
Scheduling:
- Develop and maintain detailed program schedules using MS Project
- Track and report on project progress, ensuring that timelines are adhered to, and milestones are achieved
- Identify potential scheduling conflicts and proactively address them to keep the project on track
- Update and adjust schedules as necessary in response to project changes and priorities
Documentation and Reporting:
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including schedules, status reports, and risk assessments
- Generate and distribute regular project status reports to stakeholders and executives
- Assist in the preparation of presentations and reports for project reviews and executive briefings
- Ensure all documents are correctly filed and easily accessible
Collaboration:
- Work closely with project managers, team leads, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless communication and coordination
- Facilitate collaboration across various teams to support the successful delivery of transformation initiatives
- Assist with special projects and initiatives as assigned by the program manager
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in: Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a program coordination or scheduling role
- Proficiency in MS Project is essential
- Strong understanding of program management principles and methodologies
- Familiarity with federal government processes and regulations is highly advantageous
- Active security clearance preferred
- Excellent organizational and multitasking skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Detail-oriented with a strong focus on accuracy and quality
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work under pressure to meet deadlines
Minimum/Basic Qualifications:
- Strong organizational abilities to manage schedules, resources, and program logistics
- Effective verbal and written communication for coordinating with team members and stakeholders
- Ability to take detailed and accurate meeting notes
- Summarizing large sets of information into themes and key messages
- Flexibility to adapt to changing program needs and handle unexpected challenges
- Basic understanding of MS Project or other scheduling software
Benefits at Red Carrot:
At Red Carrot, we empower you to be a leader. We attract and develop talent from all backgrounds because we believe there’s strength in diversity, offering different perspectives and skills. Together, we can solve our client’s biggest challenges. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Training and Development – Tuition reimbursement and professional trainings for eligible employees.
- Healthcare – Top-tier medical, dental, vision, life insurance and long-term disability coverage.
- 401(k) Plan – 401(k)-retirement and Roth plan with company matching and no vesting period.
- Profit Sharing – Discretionary profit-sharing plan to all eligible employees after one year of employment.
- Paid Time Off – Provides flexible work hours, paid time off, and 11 federal holidays.
About Us:
Red Carrot is an award-winning, woman-owned small business that is growing rapidly in the federal government space. Our team is fueled by passion, backed by intelligence, and built on expertise. From our inception, we have leveraged industrial engineering principles and data analytics to craft highly efficient solutions for clients’ complex needs. As we have grown, we remain focused on research-centric, data-informed, and audience-oriented, while expanding our range of expert capabilities.Headquartered in Miami, Florida, we have a strong and continually growing presence in Washington, D.C., as well as team members and clients all over the country.
We understand the importance of overcoming geographic limitations to provide the best, all-encompassing service to our clients. Red Carrot builds client capacity by implementing Strategic Communications, Customer Experience, Management Consulting, and Human Capital Solutions on behalf of our clients.
EO Commitment:
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, familial status, gender identity, transgender status, sexual orientation, actual or perceived status as a victim of domestic violence, dating violence or stalking of any individual or any person associated with such individual, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.This policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices, including but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, discipline, termination, promotions, transfers, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, and other terms and conditions of employment.
