Project Coordinator
MRI Software
From the day we opened our doors in 1971, MRI Software has built flexible, game-changing real estate software solutions to improve people’s lives. The only way to carry out that mission is to hire the absolute best employees on earth. People like you.
Work hard, play hard. Always. Our relentless commitment to client success, our employee resource groups and our promise to empower our teams to reach their full potential are a few examples of what makes MRI Software special.
And we’re insanely dedicated to creating a work environment that you look forward to every single day. That’s why we invest heavily in our employee engagement, so you enjoy the tech industry’s best perks. Together with the whole Pride, (lion roar for "family") employees, customers, and partners, we’re on a mission to break new ground and lead the real estate industry into a digital-first future.
We understand the need to provide a flexible working environment partnered with team collaboration and socialisation. Therefore, we operate a hybrid working model with 3 days of working from home per week. This role is based in the Cape Town office.
Working Hours: North America (EST) 8:30 - 17:00 - Reminder to keep Daylight Savings in mind.
The Project Coordinator will be measured on delivery of on time, high quality solutions that meet documented business and technical objectives. Manage timely deliverables with strong communication, planning, and problem-solving skills. Candidates must have a ‘can do’ attitude and be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where a winning team will be both local and in remote locations.
RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Assists in planning and ensuring that a project tracks to resources, schedule, and budget constraints.
- Tracks open issues and effectively negotiate to impact decisions and trade-offs and to guide issues within internal and external groups to resolution.
- Holds team members accountable for their commitments, milestones, resources, and deliverables.
- Anticipates, identifies, documents, and manages key project risks, proposing appropriate mitigation and contingency plans and communicates in a timely manner to stakeholders and senior management.
- Identifies project or product dependencies and tracks and reports on their progress if required for project completion.
- Proposes workable solutions to problems by analyzing business and technical trade-offs among alternatives and uses objective judgment and influence to formulate and drive consensus on recommendations.
- Frames communication and discussions for the intended audience, with appropriate context and line of sight
- Conducts and effectively facilitates communication with the project team to update status, and identify and resolve issues.
- Achieves quality results through strong team interaction, effective cross-team collaboration and taking ownership of the success of the project.
REQUIREMENTS :
- Personal and business skills
- Communication strengths to anticipate needs and ensure teams have the information they need to be effective.
- Analytic & strategic thinking based on deriving insights from disparate pieces of information and translating those insights into action and mitigation plans.
- Understanding of general business principles
- Microsoft Office, Excel, and PowerPoint experience required
EXPERIENCE:
- 1-3 years working knowledge of and experience with project coordination and management.
- Experience working with software implementation projects a plus
- Detail-oriented and extremely organized, with proven ability to establish priorities and achieve results
- Very strong communication skills
We’re obsessed with making this the best job you’ve ever had!
We want our teams to love working here, so we’ve created some incredible perks for you to enjoy:
We want our staff to love working here, and so we’ve created a few unique perks such as office breakfasts, quarterly lunches and virtual social events. Additionally, we value your input in your employee experience and have employee-led groups such as our DEI committee, employee resource groups such as Women and Allies, and our Pride Event Group
Have confidence in your health with our offered Medical Aid Scheme.
Invest in our competitive Personal Pension plan and help set you up for your future.
Big on family? So are we! Here at MRI Software we recognise that your family is important, and being able to spend quality time with your family as it grows is a wonderful experience. Therefore, the MRI Software Parental Leave benefit is designed to give you the opportunity to spend time with your new arrival(s).
Enjoy a fantastic work-life balance with 25 days of annual leave plus public Holidays, in addition to a bank of 16 hours of "Flex Time Off" to be used whenever and however you choose!
Further your professional development with our Tuition Reimbursement Schemes
Enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere in the world for two weeks out of the year!
MRI continues to strive to amaze as a global industry leader in real estate software. Whether you are joining as a new pride member or bringing your expertise back, your talent is important to maintaining MRI’s high client experience standard and continuing our growth in the PropTech space.
Amazing growth takes amazing employees. Are you up to the challenge?
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you!
As a global company, we believe diversity brings benefits for our people, customers and clients. This is why MRI Software is committed to being an inclusive employer, regardless of your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, military and veteran status.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are values that are critical to our success; come and see for yourself.