Special Projects Coordinator

Job Description

ICF is seeking a Special Projects Coordinator to work on a national technical assistance project. The purpose of this project is to provide legal services for Unaccompanied Children post-release from Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) care and custody and to expand the legal community’s skills and capacity to provide immigration legal support. The Special Projects Coordinator will use his/her expertise to support the executive management team in all task related to the effective and efficient operations of the Post-Release Legal Services project.

The successful candidate has broad knowledge of project coordination. The Special Projects Coordinator will work closely with and under the oversight of the Operations Director to execute essential strategies related to program operations. The successful candidate will have an ability to partner with the client and project management team leads in the development and implementation of procedures and processes related to fiscal management, recruitment, intake, data analysis, and reporting. He/she works with teams to facilitate delivery of timely and high-quality work products.

Key Responsibilities

• Support special projects related to the effective and efficient delivery of project deliverables across project teams.
• Support materials for client updates and other external reporting.
• Participate in financial operations meetings and support the finance team in contributing to internal and external reports.
• Support the Executive Management Team as needed to support project goals.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, public administration, communications, public relations, or related field which requires an understanding of written communication.
• A minimum of 3 years professional project coordination experience, including coordinating projects, tasks, deliverables, and reporting.

Preferred Skills:

• Master’s degree in social work, public administration, or other advanced degree in a related field
• Working knowledge of Unaccompanied Children, ORR, and citizenship/legal issues.
• Experience working for a refugee program.
• Proficient in use of Smartsheet, Power BI, or similar applications

Professional Skills:

• Ability to promote and contribute to an equitable and inclusive organizational culture and environment.

• Solid team player with proven ability to manage competing priorities, perspectives and stakeholder needs.
• Exceptional project coordination skills, with a focus on TA project coordination.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple activities simultaneously in a fast-paced, changing environment.

• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated outstanding level of professionalism in providing administrative support, including ability to exercise good judgment, discretion, tact and diplomacy.
• Proficient with MS office applications (i.e., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

Working at ICF

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