Project Coordinator

Canada
Remote
Posted Oct 17, 2026
1 position

Opens LinkedIn

Employment type: Contract
Experience level: Mid-level · 2+ years
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Seniority: Associate

Job summary

Coordinate multiple concurrent projects and initiatives by maintaining schedules, documentation, milestones, requirements, backlogs, and stakeholder follow-up. Prepare governance reports, decision materials, metrics, and risk and issue tracking to support project delivery and executive decisions.

Job details

Do you have experience supporting projects, programs, business initiatives, organizational change, or operational improvement - along with strong coordination, requirements, stakeholder, reporting, and governance capabilities?! If so, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to multiple concurrent initiatives in a remote (within Canada), cross-functional environment. Focus Systems is seeking an experienced Project Coordinator - Strategy & Impact Business Enablement (RFR311) to support Strategy & Impact Business Enablement initiatives within a Regina-based agri-finance crown corporation. Key Details • Location: Remote within Canada • Contract: November, 2026 to March 31, 2028 • Engagement: Full time • Work Arrangement: Fully remote; candidates must be located in Canada Role Overview The Project Coordinator - Strategy & Impact Business Enablement (RFR311) will support multiple concurrent projects and business initiatives through project coordination, documentation, requirements support, stakeholder engagement, reporting, and governance activities. The successful candidate will work with teams, business partners, vendors, and subject matter experts to maintain schedules and delivery artifacts, coordinate meetings and follow-up, support requirements and backlogs, track risks and issues, and prepare information that supports project and executive decisions. Key Responsibilities • Support multiple concurrent projects with schedules, status reports, documentation, action tracking, and milestone coordination • Coordinate meetings, workshops, and planning sessions; prepare agendas, minutes, decision records, and follow-up actions • Support requirements gathering, documentation, and maintenance across the project lifecycle • Assist with defining scope, objectives, assumptions, constraints, deliverables, and escalation of scope changes • Translate business discussions into requirements, user stories, backlog items, acceptance criteria, risks, and action plans • Participate in Agile and hybrid backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and roadmap discussions • Maintain epics, features, user stories, priorities, dependencies, and acceptance criteria with stakeholders • Build relationships and communicate effectively with teams, business partners, vendors, and subject matter experts • Prepare governance reporting, steering committee materials, decision logs, RAID logs, presentations, and change requests • Track, document, monitor, escalate, and report risks, issues, dependencies, and changes • Support scheduling, resource coordination, milestones, work planning, estimates, and project administration • Prepare metrics, dashboards, reports, presentations, and analysis for project and executive decisions • Use Microsoft 365 and project portfolio, work-management, backlog, and reporting tools to support delivery • Connect project delivery and organizational change activities to strategic business outcomes Mandatory Qualifications • Three to five years of business experience, including support for projects, programs, initiatives, organizational change, or operational improvement • Experience in project coordination, project administration, PMO support, business coordination, business analysis, requirements coordination, or a related role • Experience supporting requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, process mapping, backlog creation, or business analysis initiatives • Experience assisting with scope definition, project planning, scheduling, governance reporting, risks, issues, and change management • Experience facilitating meetings, documenting decisions, tracking commitments, and coordinating stakeholder follow-up • Exposure to Agile, hybrid, and/or traditional project delivery methods • Experience using scheduling, collaboration, reporting, and work-management tools • Post-secondary education in Business Administration, Commerce, Project Management, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related discipline; or an equivalent combination of education and experience • Ability to work full time and remotely from within Canada for the duration of the engagement Required Skills and Experience • Project coordination, planning, scheduling, milestone tracking, and project administration • Requirements support, process mapping, user stories, backlog items, and acceptance criteria • Meeting and workshop facilitation, documentation, decision tracking, and stakeholder follow-up • Governance reporting, steering materials, RAID logs, change requests, metrics, and dashboards • Strong organization, analysis, critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, and relationship-building skills • Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple concurrent initiatives Preferred Experience and Assets • Completed or in-progress recognized project management certification, such as CAPM, PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum, or an Agile-related certification • Experience with multiple project delivery methodologies, particularly Waterfall and Agile Application Deadline Please complete your initial application by Wednesday, October 21, at 2:00pm CST. Only candidates selected to proceed to the next stage will be contacted and invited to complete their application package.

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires three to five years of business experience supporting projects, programs, organizational change, or operational improvement, along with experience in coordination, requirements, planning, governance, and stakeholder engagement. Post-secondary education in a related discipline or equivalent experience is required, as is the ability to work full time remotely from within Canada.