Project Coordinator

Job Title: Project Coordinator IT

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Job Summary

Project Coordinator

delivery at our Chennai office. The ideal candidate should have strong organizational skills,

hands-on experience with JIRA and creating user stories

This role involves coordinating project tasks, maintaining documentation, and ensuring smooth

collaboration across teams to achieve successful project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Project Support & Planning

• Assist Project Managers in preparing project plans, schedules, and timelines.
• Break down business requirements into

  epics, user stories, and tasks

  with well-defined

acceptance criteria.

• Ensure user stories are properly documented, prioritized, and ready for sprint execution.

JIRA Management & Tracking

• Create and manage

  epics, user stories, sub-tasks, and sprints

  in JIRA.
• Maintain sprint backlogs and ensure timely status updates for all tasks.
• Generate project reports and dashboards (burndown, velocity, workload) for stakeholders.
• Track risks, issues, and dependencies in JIRA and escalate where necessary.

Coordination & Communication

• Act as a bridge between developers, QA, designers, and project managers.
• Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Document and circulate minutes of meetings (MoM) with clear action items.
• Provide regular progress updates and ensure alignment with stakeholders.

Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain project documentation including requirements, risk logs, and status reports.
• Assist in preparing client presentations and project progress dashboards.• Support compliance with company processes and IT governance standards.

Risk & Issue Management

• Identify risks and blockers early and document them in JIRA.
• Coordinate with the team to ensure timely resolution and closure.
• Escalate critical issues to the Project Manager for intervention.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• 24 years of experience as a Project Coordinator (IT environment preferred).

• Strong knowledge of JIRA

  (epics, user stories, sprints, reports, dashboards).
• Hands-on experience in writing

  user stories and acceptance criteria

  .
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and multitasking skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

recruitment@novastrid.com,