Project Coordinator Consultant - Intern

Company: Crowe
Location: South Portland
Posted on: September 26, 2022

Job Description:

BE YOURSELF. WORK FLEXIBLY. GROW WITH ONE-ON-ONE SUPPORT. MAKE AN IMPACT.
Crowe is a global public accounting, consulting, and technology firm that combines deep industry and specialized expertise with innovation. Here, you won't get lost among the masses, and you won't have to sacrifice your personal life, either. You'll be valued for who you are: an individual with a lot to offer.
At Crowe, you'll get:
Competitive and generous compensation

Flexibility in where you work and plentiful time-off

The technology and innovation you'd expect from a large firm, with the approachability of a mid-sized firm
Personalized coaching and career support
A culture based on genuine authenticity and human connection
Opportunities to make a real difference at work and in your community
As our world continues to be unpredictable, we're committed to turning every challenge into an opportunity. We encourage new ideas and want to hear yours. Join us.
YOUR JOURNEY AT CROWE STARTS HERE:
At Crowe LLP, you have the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions to today's complex business issues. Crowe's accounting, consulting, and technology personnel are widely recognized for their in-depth, industry-focused expertise and understanding of sophisticated process frameworks and enabling technologies, along with their commitment to delivering measurable results that help clients build business value. Crowe's Consulting team is frequently praised by satisfied clients for their high professional standards, industry expertise, innovative technology solutions and responsive hands-on approach to client service. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a "Best Place to Work."
As a PROJECT COORDINATOR CONSULTANT in CROWE'S CONSULTING PRACTICE, you will have the opportunity to drive project success via two tracks (specializations): Project Management or Organizational Change Management.
As a Project Coordinator on the PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRACK, your role will be focused on helping clients resolve business needs by assisting in managing the project scope with customers, providing project leadership updates on progress, aligning direction of Crowe and customer team members with tasks for implementing complex business and technology solutions.
As a Project Coordinator on the ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT TRACK, you will specialize in guiding clients through the change that their organizations experience when implementing a new ERP. Your role will focus on structuring change initiatives throughout the life of the project, empowering leaders to manage change and motivating employees to engage and embrace the change.
At Crowe, we empower you to take risks, to challenge yourself in specialized areas of consulting & technology, and to generate solutions that impact the firm and your professional growth. Crowe cultivates a creative company culture where you will have the opportunity to share your ideas and knowledge with clients from your very first day with the firm. - The Project Coordinator is the central hub to manage all aspects of delivery to our clients, ranging from the technical solution (Project Management track) to the people-side of the implementation (Organizational Change Management track).
Your career could launch in one of the following areas:
MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION
You will work with clients in the manufacturing and distribution industry to help transform their business requirements into a state-of-the-art cloud solution that will enable their organization to exploit new opportunities, engage better with their customers and compete globally in the dynamic "Cloud-First" era. - New hires will assist in project management or change management activities to enable successful project outcomes by facilitating client communication, maintaining project scope, collaborating with project leadership and removing project barriers. - - - The Organizational Change Management track will work in parallel with Project Management to ensure that the client end-users impacted by the business transformation are informed, engaged and supported through the transition to a new ERP. You will be expected to lead team building events and develop internal team and customer relationships.
GENERAL EXPECTATIONS:
Engage with project teams to gather assets, best practices and guidance from our customers in an effort to integrate and/or improve our methodologies and end customer experience

Prepare weekly status reports and present weekly status review meeting with customer

Highly organized to coordinate across multiple teams and maintain project deadlines
Ability to utilize both technical and interpersonal skills to assist clients and project teams
Self-motivated
Aptitude to learn and use cutting edge technology to tackle business problems
Learn and work well both in a team and independently
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong conceptual thinking and creativity
Willingness to travel
SPECIFIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRACK EXPECTATIONS:
Facilitate operational review meetings with customers to translate business needs into functional requirements and business scenarios

Manage the effective transition of requirements to the delivery team ensuring a clear and complete understanding of the requirements

Guide customers through cost and value analysis on customizations
Support the project plan and resource schedule on a weekly basis
Manage quality assurance reviews with customer on a regular basis and execute correction actions
SPECIFIC ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT TRACK EXPECTATIONS:
Form strategic relationships with leadership and managers to leverage throughout the implementation to understand perception of the change and collaborate on change management initiatives

Conduct assessments throughout the implementation to assess the organization, stakeholders, risks, perception of the change, impact of the change and end-user feedback

Guide key client resources through their roles and responsibilities in change management
Develop the vision and strategic intent of the change, in coordination with client leadership
Create and support the execution of a Communications Plan and Strategy
Collaborate with Project Management on the Training Approach and Strategy
EDUCATION:
Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in: Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Management, Information Technology or Information Systems, or comparable major. Organizational Change Management candidates may be pursuing Communications degrees with experience or minors in the forementioned majors.
MORE ABOUT CROWE:
Crowe LLP (www.crowe.com) is a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities. The firm and its subsidiaries also help clients make smart decisions that lead to lasting value with its tax, advisory, and consulting services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the best places to work in the U.S. As an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world, Crowe serves clients worldwide. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

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