Project Development Coordinator
Center on Economics & Foreign Affairs · United States
full timehybridCoordinator
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Provides disciplined coordination for project records, stakeholder meetings, schedules, research, presentations, consultants, reporting, and administrative execution.
Responsibilities
- Maintain calendars, contact lists, meeting materials, minutes, action logs, project files, and reporting schedules. - Coordinate logistics and communications for stakeholder meetings, consultants, events, site visits, and internal reviews. - Track deliverables and follow up with owners while escalating overdue or unclear items promptly. - Support research, presentation preparation, records management, procurement, and routine project administration. - Apply confidentiality, approval, naming, file-management, and external-communication protocols consistently. Reporting & working relationships Reports to a project or program manager. Supports multiple team members and coordinates approved interactions with consultants, partners, vendors, fellows, and institutional stakeholders. Authority & limits No independent authority to bind CEFA, commit funds, approve investments, solicit securities, or make public institutional commitments. External engagement and materials must follow assigned supervision and approval protocols.
Required qualifications
- Strong administrative or project-coordination experience; relevant college training or equivalent experience welcomed. - Excellent organization, written communication, calendar, document, spreadsheet, and presentation skills. - Service-oriented, discreet, dependable, and comfortable coordinating senior and external stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications
What success looks like: - Accurate, current records and calendars across assigned projects. - Meetings and events that are well prepared and followed by clear action tracking. - Fewer missed deadlines, duplicated requests, and document-version errors. - Consistent adherence to CEFA's administrative and authority protocols.
Benefits
Employment classification: Paid staff position. Status: Full-time or part-time, depending on organizational need. Term: Ongoing employment, subject to applicable law and CEFA policies. Compensation: Salary and benefits commensurate with experience and CEFA's approved compensation framework. Performance cycle: Annual objectives with regular check-ins and a formal performance review. Work arrangement: Location, travel, schedule, and exempt/nonexempt status determined for the final role and jurisdiction.
Equal opportunity
CEFA is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to any legally protected characteristic.
About Center on Economics & Foreign Affairs
CEFA is a mission-driven nonprofit institution connecting research, policy, capital, and public- and private-sector partners to advance economic development and foreign-affairs priorities at national scale.