Project coordinator

Job description for Project Coordinator


Background: Startup Moldova Foundation is an organization accelerating the technological innovation in the Republic of Moldova by training, encouraging, but also by creating a favorable environment for the development of startups and tech innovative companies.

The Foundation aims at:

- Community: Supporting and empowering the community of startups and innovative companies in the Republic of Moldova through community programs, activities and events. Creating and executing a unified strategy to promote the startup community.

- Education: Implementing programs and initiatives to encourage and empower people who want or plan to become a startup founder or active promoter of technological innovations.

- Resources for startups: Empowering startups and innovative companies with the necessary resources to achieve their goals: mentoring, tracking, operational training, facilitating partnerships, facilitating access to accounting services, legal assistance, thematic training, and others.

- Funding: Facilitating the access of startups and innovative companies to financing resources, their support and professional training in fundraising activities.

Job Title: Project Coordinator

Basic Functions: Project Coordinator performs its functions based on the job description and employment contract, and will perform its function on a full-time basis, being allocated in one or more projects, up to full capacity utilization.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

- Project development, planning and implementation
- Responsible for the achievement of project goals and objectives
- Coordination of internal and external resources for program execution purposes
- Responsible for the timely delivery of the project, meeting the scope and budget
- Monitoring of track progress and reporting on the interim and final status
- Reporting and escalation to Executive Director
- Creation and maintenance of necessary, comprehensive project documentation
- Responsible for the quality and reliability of project documentation and project data
- Creation and monitoring of the project plan and its execution
- Responsibility for tasks delegation, coordination and tracking within the team
- Coordination of local teams in case of projects run in the regions of Moldova

Reporting Line: Project Coordinator is reporting to the Executive Director of the Foundation.

Coordination Line: Project Coordinator might be managing Project Assistant(s), depending on the individual project needs.

Requirements and qualifications:

- Proven work experience in project management
- Proven work experience in team management and tasks delegation
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Great adaptability and stress management skills
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Advanced levels of English, Romanian and Russian languages
- Critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills, detail-oriented
- Strong sense of fairness and ethical principles
- Fascinated by the area of technological innovations
- Potential business trips across Moldova, up to 20% of the work time

Place of performance: Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

Period of performance: Full time

Deadline for applications: April 1, 2022

Expected start date: April 15, 2022

Application process: If interested, please send your CV and explain your motivation to take this position to the email: nbejan@startupmoldova.digital.

Please indicate in the email subject line: JOB APPLICATION Project Coordinator.