Project Coordinator

Absolute Requirements
• Pro-active attitude;
• Real organizing talent;
• Excellent reporting & analysis skill in Excel (SQL, Pivot Tables);
• Capable to handle stress (personal stress and team stress);
• Very good personal time management;
• Understand, Speak, Read & Write English;
• Very good listener to people, and a diplomat when talking with people;
• Be able to plan and follow up the daily work of 10 to 20 people;
• Be able to lead a format daily production meeting with one or more teams in English;
• Be able to write brief but complete meeting reports;
• Be able to balance the time spend on short term (3 weeks) and long term (6 months) projects;
• Experience with organizing work in a BPO or KBO environment
• At least 2 years of experience in non-leading position plus 3 years of experience in a similar coordinating position.

Ideal
• Having worked in a flat team structure before;
• Experience with creation of Work Breakdown Structures, Critical Path Analysis, …
• Risk Management;
• Stress Management;
• Hands-on experience with MS Project;
• Some experience in sprint planning & agile methodology

NOTE: we are NOT looking for a software development project! Our projects are on data mining and linguistic control, and our deliverables are data sets and reporting documents.

Using an iterative agile process approach, the Project Manager will facilitate delivery of datasets & reports to the product development team and the professional services team of Language Weaver in Los Angeles.

Responsibilities include:
• Sprint planning and detailed breakdown of tasks and assignment to the team members
• Facilitating daily meetings
• Promoting a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity & innovation
• Providing visibility to team status & issues to senior management
• Identifying & coordinating dependencies with external teams
• Mentoring team members on agile procedures
• Planning & tracking release milestones
• Liaising between the engineering linguists, the data collectors and the engineers;
• Collect feedback about the internal tools and the commercial tools tested by the internal teams
• Setup, monitor and execute jobs outsourced to external linguists (translators, reviewers, data collectors

To apply for this position, plese send a CV and a letter in English to resumesRomania@languageweaver.com. In this letter answer the following questions:
o What event of activity did you organize before? What was the biggest challenge you had to find a solution for?
o Did you ever fail? What did you learn from this?
o Do you have extra skills that make the difference between you and other good candidates?

Based in beautiful Marina del Rey, CA, Language Weaver Inc. is a very successful Internet company that is the leader in statistical machine translation solutions for government and commercial enterprises.