Project coordinator

Closing date for applications: 4th August 2025

Salary: Basic salary per annum starting from £35,000

Department: Ad tech team, sales ops, 4 sales

Reports to: Ad tech leader

Employment Status: 6 month FTC

Location: Manchester or Leeds

Bring your organisational skills and project management experience to Channel 4 and support the delivery of their digital ad strategy.

Channel 4 became the first broadcaster in Europe to launch a catch-up video on demand (VOD) service in 2006. After significant success, C4 sales now requires the growth of the product and platform offering to enable the continued expectations of our partners and customers to be fulfilled. Our digital growth is now a firm target within our business strategy, We achieved our target to have digital revenue account for 30% by 2025 and we see that growing. This role supports the ad tech team who are responsible for technical ad integrations across our diverse platform set ups, and the delivery of effective systems and processes in C4 sales.

The role will require working closely with many of the product owners and specialists within the ad tech team, assisting with coordination and administration by maintaining documentation on project delivery timelines, stakeholders and milestones, ensuring that these are updated as the projects progress. This, in turn will help projects deliver faster and more easily, by constructively ensuring that the team have up-to-date milestones, and enable them to clearly highlight where their priorities should be set and address blockers. A particular focus will be on ensuring projects being worked out are those that have been outlined as our priorities, so the team is using their resources effectively and aligning to goals for digital transformation and increased revenue as part of the strategy.

Documentation of projects will be key to analysing blockers for the team, release velocity and resource capacity. The use of Monday.com as a project management tool to capture projects will be essential. The role will collate analysis of project progress – highlighting the key risks especially dependencies on other teams that may impact multiple projects, and communicate these to the ad tech leader as required. This can be translated into documentation of the higher level roadmap, and form the basis of communication to stakeholders within technology, sales and potentially externally.

Measured by:

• Maintenance of project management systems such as Monday.com
• Supporting ad tech team with administrative tasks and documentation on their project progress
• Triage of issues requiring resolution or escalating i.e. chasing agreed actions from stakeholders or highlighting larger blockers/inaction to the ad tech leader
• Understanding of business priorities and project relevance
• Monthly communication of ad tech roadmap and project progress to wider Sales teams
• Ability to communicate holistic blockers affecting the team to ad tech leader

Responsibilities

• Project management (PM) via Monday.com for all ad tech projects
• Aligning ad tech projects to strategic goals, for both communication and prioritisation purposes
• Drive the release of monthly communication on latest tech updates to sales and other stakeholders such as technology and product
• Collate analysis of project delivery each quarter to support quarterly team discussions on learnings and areas of the roadmap to focus on
• Capture minutes and actions for large scale project meetings, ensuring they are kept on track at their relevant meeting cadence
• Working closely with product owners and specialists to ensure adequate documentation of project progress – status updates, blockers, slippage, risks and dependencies
• Monitors and identifies trends with risks or blockers to project success, highlighting to the ad tech leader
• Providing ad tech leader with insights on overarching team project progress
• Ensure feedback when risks or blockers are mitigated to enable projects to progress
• Analysis of release velocity and capacity management for team
• Support communication plan for individual projects alongside broader monthly roadmap updates to sales and other stakeholders to keep them informed
• Encourage product owners and specialists to use structure project planning methodology, including deliverables, release cadence, risks and blockers
• Support stakeholder management efforts and capture progress with change management techniques
• Ensure updates from team feed into wider PM tools and business governance

Knowledge, skills & experience

Technical & professional skills

• Knowledge of project management tools and techniques - Monday.com essential, JIRA is beneficial
• Advanced level Microsoft Office skills in particular MS Excel
• Qualifications or working towards: PMP, PRINCE2, ScrumMaster, Agile PM
• Experience of working within a structured project management framework either Agile or Waterfall or Hybrid based
• Experience managing end to end high complexity business change projects and multiple concurrent projects of varying size and complexity
• Ability to appreciate technical projects and establish tangible actions or points requiring escalation
• Ability to use online tools such as Monday.com, Microsoft Planner, Trello to manage workloads and tasks
• Ability to identify and utilise AI tools to help with tasks

Communication skills

• Facilitation skills when bringing multiple people working on a project together
• Excellent communication - the ability to communicate to a variety of audiences such as highly technical developers as well as sales people, across business functions and levels, tailoring messages appropriately

Personal profile

• Aligned to the C4 values and remit
• Present a professional image in words, manner, tone and style
• Solve own problems without being asked
• Have a right first-time attitude and learns from mistakes
• Able to judge when things need to be escalated
• Strive to do the "right thing", not just the "easy thing"
• Is courageous and decisive, prioritises effectively, maintains a clear focus and sees action through to delivery
• Is determined, positive, goal focussed and consistent - even under pressure. Be used to working in a changing and challenging environment, able to effectively deal with changing priorities or obstacles and to provide alternative options or solutions
• Hands on, pragmatic and delivery focused
• Have drive and passion (for success and quality)
• Builds trust and demonstrates integrity in all circumstances
• Excellent analytical and organisational skills, able to process and present information in a structured format and in a clear unambiguous way

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.