Program Coordinator

Program Coordinator – Hybrid Delivery

Slater and Gordon Lawyers are a leading national personal injury and class actions law firm where every member of our team has a shared passion for our clients: we are people caring for people.

Our commitment to our people includes offering genuine work-life balance, with a hybrid work environment allowing them to split their time between home and the office. We recognise and reward high performance and have outstanding employee benefits including a week of shutdown leave, paid parental leave, extra-long service leave, together with various ongoing learning and professional development opportunities.

About the role

The Program Coordinator supports the delivery of a hybrid program that combines Waterfall planning for program milestones with Agile delivery across multiple workstreams. This role covers all the Project Coordinator/Project Management fundamentals, including managing team schedule, Kanban boards and project tracking tools, governance reporting, project risks and Financials.

The role ensures effective coordination, visibility, and communication across teams, tracking dependencies, risks, issues, and progress vs plan while bridging structured and iterative approaches.

Reporting to the Transformation Director, Head of PMO, you will focus on:

Program Coordination & Delivery Support

Coordinate program activities across Agile and Waterfall projects &/or workstreams, ensuring alignment with overall objectives and timelines.

Maintain and update the integrated program plan, including milestones, sprints, releases, dependencies, and critical paths.

Track and follow up on program actions, risks, issues, and decisions (RAID), escalating appropriately.

Support program-level governance (Steering Committees, stage-gate reviews) and Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, Scrum of Scrums, retrospectives).

Maintain accurate program documentation, including version control of key artefacts.

Maintain project financials, support vendor invoicing, monthly accruals, and reporting.

Maintain resource plans, progressive updates, resource and work dependencies.

Provide general project administration, and support Project/Program Managers as required.

Agile & Kanban Tools Management

Manage and maintain Kanban boards for multiple teams, ensuring accurate representation of work in progress, priorities, and status.

Maintain and administer Jira boards/projects for tracking tasks, sprints, releases, and dependencies.

Generate dashboards and visual reports from Jira to provide program-level visibility.

Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release coordination activities.

Track metrics (velocity, lead time, burndown, throughput) to highlight delivery health.

Governance & Reporting

Produce structured reporting on milestone progress, budget, and delivery health

Monitor and proactively manage dependencies and risks across teams

Prepare concise program updates for leadership and stakeholders.

Your key relationships will include program and delivery leads, scrum masters, project teams, workstream leads and the PMO. However, this may pivot over the journey of the program

The ideal applicant will facilitate stakeholder communication through program updates and team coordination while supporting hybrid delivery practices, onboarding, and collaboration. Maintains knowledge repositories, tracks lessons learned and improvement actions, and identifies opportunities to strengthen governance, reporting, accountability, and coordination across teams operating within structured and iterative delivery environments.

What will you bring?

Experience coordinating programs using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Practical experience managing Jira and Kanban boards.

Strong planning and organisation skills

Excellent communication and facilitation skills across diverse teams and stakeholders.

Strong people skills.

Strong organisational skills to manage documentation, schedules, and resources efficiently.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Excellent client service/relationships skills.

Strong critical thinking skills.

Ability to work on multiple projects/pieces of work at one time.

Ability to take initiative and work to deadlines.

High level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Solid computer literacy in MS Office.

What next?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Slater and Gordon. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies. To be eligible for this position, you must be an Australian citizen, a permanent resident, or hold a valid visa with full and unrestricted working rights in Australia. Proof of work rights will be required as part of the Slater and Gordon application process.

Acknowledgement of Country

Slater and Gordon acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations peoples today.

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