E T Consultant

The Extended Term Consultant will provide operational, governance, portfolio, and project coordination support to the ITSCB management team and broader ITSCO stakeholders. The role focuses on improving visibility, strengthening follow-through, and enabling strategic decision-making and business outcomes within the Project/Program Management stream.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate selected operational processes for the Chennai-based ITSCO and ITSCB workforce, including onboarding, offboarding, access and equipment follow-up, orientation logistics, staff and contractor records, and related status tracking.
• Support contractor and consultant administration by coordinating requests, documentation, extensions, purchase-order or invoice follow-up, and issue resolutions with the appropriate corporate teams.
• Maintain an integrated view of ITSCB initiatives, products, projects, quarterly deliverables, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and management actions.
• Coordinate governance calendars, review cycles, project checkpoints, steering or working-group materials, and follow-up actions across assigned initiatives.
• Maintain action, decision, risk, issue, dependency, and milestone logs; ensure owners and target dates are recorded and periodically refreshed.
• Support the maintenance and quality of Azure DevOps boards and portfolio dashboards, including work-item completeness, ownership, dates, status, links, and traceability to agreed deliverables.
• Document current processes, identify recurring coordination bottlenecks, and propose pragmatic improvements, automation opportunities, controls, or reusable templates.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with 2 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience (for example, in the IT field: Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 1 year of related work experience).
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, SharePoint, and related collaboration tools.
• Ability to maintain effective controls over records, deadlines, follow-ups, and confidential information while managing multiple priorities.
• Excellent written and oral communication in English, with the ability to tailor content for technical teams, business stakeholders, managers, and senior audiences.
• Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, practical judgment, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
• Ability to work independently within defined objectives, seek clarification when needed, and collaborate effectively without relying on formal authority.
• Knowledge of project and program coordination practices, including planning, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, actions, decisions, status reporting, and governance routines.
• Working knowledge of value management concepts, including outcome definition, benefits or value hypotheses, prioritization, measures, evidence, and value realization tracking.

Skills

• MS Excel
• Power Point
• Word
• Teams
• SharePoint Development
• Collaboration Tools
• Records Management Projects
• Deadline Management
• Confidential Information Handling
• Written Communication
• Oral Communication
• Technical Writing
• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Practical Judgment
• Continual Improvement
• Independent Work
• Project Coordination
• Program Coordination
• Planning
• Risk Management
• Issue Management
• Dependency Management
• Status reporting
• Governance Routines
• Value Management
• Outcome Definition
• Benefits Prioritization
• Value Realization Tracking

Languages

English