Project Coordinator

Job Description

Role and Responsibilities

The main responsibilities of coordinators is to apply their linguistic knowledge, technical skills and attention to detail to manage projects to quality expectations, timelines, and budget.
The project coordinators apply their communication skills to manage stakeholder relationships and teams of language specialists around the world.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage projects’ quality, time and budget to ensure effective project execution and delivery.
• Coordinate with Operations Excellence to train a virtual team of contractors to create, evaluate or annotate data in multiple languages.
• Help prepare guidelines, training materials and tools, aligned to client specifications.
• Oversee the work of contractors, including task assignment, scheduling and monitoring.
• Ensure close and regular communication with all internal project stakeholders.
• Document and manage language resources arising from projects “data-base”.
• Report to the responsible Project Manager when something seems off with project execution or when it appears to may lead to unplanned events/unexpected results or risks.
• Responsible for ensuring goals are met in areas including hiring, training & onboarding for the execution environment.

Job Requirements

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Outstanding communication and follow up skills is a must.
• Experience in a language-related field, such as linguistics, computational linguistics, translation and localization, or equivalent.
• Good technical and data management skills.
• Good problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in an environment characterized by constant change, and a fast, deadline-driven culture.
• Project management experience, preferably in a language, linguistics, or software-related field.
• Bachelor degree in Operations or Management.
• Some experience with regular expressions, bash scripting, or programming skills is considered a big plus.
• Native or near-native proficiency in at least one language other than English.
• Exposure to a range of Natural Language Processing technologies is a plus.