Project Coordinator - GAC

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Ottawa, ON, CAN
In-Office
Entry level
Information Technology • Consulting
The Role
Coordinates project planning, schedules, deliverables, risks, documentation, meetings, reporting, budgets, invoices, and stakeholder follow-up. Provides administrative and executive support to project managers and senior leadership, using SAP for financial tracking and Microsoft Office for reports and presentations. The role also supports governance, resource coordination, onboarding, travel, and project records within a Government of Canada environment.
Summary Generated by Built In
Project Coordinator

49 Solutions is seeking an experienced Project Coordinator to support an upcoming opportunity with Global Affairs Canada (GAC).

The successful candidate will provide project coordination, administrative, and executive-level support within a fast-paced Government of Canada environment. This role requires someone who is highly organized, comfortable managing multiple priorities, experienced with SAP, and able to support both day-to-day project delivery and senior-level administrative requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Support the planning, coordination, monitoring, and delivery of project activities.

  • Develop, maintain, and update project schedules, work plans, trackers, and supporting documentation.
  • Track project milestones, deliverables, deadlines, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items.
  • Monitor project progress and follow up with stakeholders to ensure activities and deliverables remain on schedule.
  • Support project managers and senior leadership with coordination, reporting, and administrative requirements.
  • Prepare project status reports, dashboards, presentations, briefing materials, and other project documentation.
  • Coordinate project meetings, including scheduling, agendas, meeting materials, minutes, and action-item follow-up.
  • Maintain project records, documentation, decisions, approvals, and other project artefacts.
  • Coordinate calendars, meetings, appointments, and competing priorities for senior management.
  • Support project financial administration and tracking using SAP.
  • Assist with purchase orders, invoices, expenses, financial documentation, and reconciliation activities.
  • Track project budgets, expenditures, commitments, and financial information as required.
  • Coordinate with project teams, senior management, internal stakeholders, vendors, and external partners.
  • Support project governance activities and ensure required information is prepared for meetings and decision-making.
  • Assist with resource coordination, onboarding, access requests, and other project requirements.
  • Coordinate travel arrangements and associated documentation when required.
  • Identify outstanding items, follow up with responsible stakeholders, and escalate issues when appropriate.
  • Provide additional project coordination and administrative support as required throughout the project lifecycle.
Qualifications
  • Experience working as a Project Coordinator or in a similar project support role.
  • Experience coordinating multiple project activities, priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders.
  • Experience maintaining project schedules, plans, trackers, documentation, and status reports.
  • Experience tracking project risks, issues, action items, milestones, and deliverables.
  • Experience providing administrative or executive-level support to senior management.
  • Hands-on experience using SAP for financial or administrative activities.
  • Experience supporting budgets, invoices, purchase orders, expenses, or other financial processes.
  • Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work independently while coordinating effectively with multiple stakeholders.
  • Previous Government of Canada experience is considered a strong asset.
Security Clearance

A valid Government of Canada Secret, Level II, Security clearance is required.

Ideal Candidate

You are an organized and proactive Project Coordinator who knows how to keep a project moving. You are comfortable maintaining schedules and trackers, following up on deliverables, coordinating stakeholders, preparing project documentation and reports, and supporting senior management.

You also bring strong administrative skills and are comfortable working in SAP, supporting financial processes, coordinating calendars and meetings, and managing the many day-to-day details required to keep a project organized and on track.


Benefits

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI tools): 49 Solutions may use approved, secure, and private enterprise AI tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, to support recruitment and proposal activities. Information processed using our approved enterprise AI tools is not used to train public AI models or underlying foundation models. Personal Contact Information is not entered into public or consumer AI systems, and our use of enterprise AI is subject to applicable privacy requirements, including PIPEDA, as well as organizational security, retention, and deletion policies.

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Skills Required

  • Experience working as a Project Coordinator or in a similar project support role.
  • Experience coordinating multiple project activities, priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders.
  • Experience maintaining project schedules, plans, trackers, documentation, and status reports.
  • Experience tracking project risks, issues, action items, milestones, and deliverables.
  • Experience providing administrative or executive-level support to senior management.
  • Hands-on experience using SAP for financial or administrative activities.
  • Experience supporting budgets, invoices, purchase orders, expenses, or other financial processes.
  • Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work independently while coordinating effectively with multiple stakeholders.
  • Previous Government of Canada experience.
  • Valid Government of Canada Secret, Level II security clearance.
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The Company
HQ: Ottawa, Ontario
23 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

At 49 Solutions we consistently deliver top quality consulting services, supporting both business and technology. We work alongside our clients to assess their needs and ensure our approach, recommendations and move-forward plan will deliver the results they expect and the value they deserve. Our clients have mandates; our expert consultants help them develop comprehensive strategic plans to achieve their goals. We understand the machinery of government and how to articulate plans to meet the needs of central agencies, senior managers and program administrators. We can facilitate direction setting, research and analyze the issues, outline the options and define resource requirements. 49 Solutions will bring together project management, communications, human resource, IT and finance professionals to help you do what you set out to do. The core of our business foundation is trust. When you work with 49 Solutions, you can count on us to bring the right skills and capabilities to the table, at the right place and at the right time, in order to achieve a successful outcome. The majority of our clients are repeat customers who time and time again reach out to 49 Solutions as their first call when a new project, deliverable, or issue lands on their desk. We are well versed in both business and technology and often become the bridge between the two, creating cohesive projects that achieve desired outcomes.

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