Careers at The Brooks Group
Project Associate
Become a Project Associate for The Brooks Group
The Brooks Group, founded in 1977 and multi-time winner of The Triad Business Journal’s “Best Places to Work” awards, is looking for an aspiring Project Manager to join our team.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an individual with a passion for planning and organizing, with an eye towards ensuring total client satisfaction, and building and growing a company’s brand identity.
The work environment requires a positive, upbeat, innovative, and energetic attitude. The successful candidate will exude a passion for making a difference in our organization, while demonstrating flexibility, teamwork, and a strong sense of accountability.
The Project Associate is Responsible for:
- Project Planning: aids in the development of detailed project plans, timelines, and schedules, ensuring all aspects of the project are organized in conformance with timeline and deliverables requirements.
- Project Tracking: Helps monitor project tasks and maintain progress and achievement of milestones per the project plan.
- Resource Management: Manages and monitors resources effectively to boost project efficiency and maximize deliverables output.
- Administrative Support: provides the Project Management team with administrative support across a wide variety of projects, including but not limited to:
- Creation of project briefs, meeting agendas, presentations, and recap notes
- Meeting and call scheduling
- Program participant registration and list management and tracking
- Logging appropriate call recordings and saving files
- Creation of project checklists and data recording
- Placing program material orders
- Communication:
- Maintains daily operational communication with Project Managers and collaborative teams. Provides regular, ongoing status reports.
- Report project risks and outcomes to appropriate management channels and escalates issues according to project work plan.
- Technical Project Management:
- Maintains responsibility for file management, dissemination of programmatic and team information, and contributes to TBG knowledge, tools, and approaches.
- Supports project tasks and transfer related to TBG’s online learning management system, BrooksUP.
- Coordinates the management of materials assembly, printing, and shipping.
- Updates file management systems with key project documents and information.
- Assists with the coordination of travel logistics and activities related to program delivery.
- Supports the department’s achievement and tracking of key performance targets.
- Maintains knowledge of products and their associated production tasks.
Skills/Qualifications:
- Excellent written and verbal language skills.
- Demonstrated ability in computer skills for word processing, databases, spreadsheets, and presentations and ability to learn new software.
- Proven competence to assess priorities and manages a variety of activities in a time sensitive environment and meet deadlines with high attention to detail and quality.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively as an effective and supportive team member.
- Exceptional organization skills.
- Demonstrated ability to interact professionally, positively, and nimbly within a growth-focused environment.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Minimum 1 year of experience working in a professional setting