Support Services Project Manager/Specialist

Job Title: Support Services Project Manager/Specialist

Location: Remote

Duration: 12+ Months

Must Have: Please make sure the below skills are highlighted in the resume

• Seven (7) years of consulting and advisory services, training, change management or academic experience.
• Three (3) years of experience in accounting, including accounting cycles and processes, budgeting, and reporting.
• Intermediate or advanced-level expertise in Google Workspace (specifically Google Docs and Google Sheets), and the Microsoft Office Suite of products.
• Experience with LAGov, MTW GMS - Grants Management System (eGMS), and current ECE financial and operational grants management processes.
• Experience with the federal Quality Progress Report (QPR) for the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program and other similar funding sources.
• Experience facilitating cross-functional communications across various business units, including LDOE Fiscal Operations and Early Childhood stakeholders.
• Experience in analysing, processing, and reconciling large sets of data to identify trends and create data stories.
• Experience in working with subject matter experts to define, design, develop and deploy dashboards, consolidating data from multiple data sources into easy-to-interpret and actionable sets of information.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience creating project documentation for complex projects

The scope of the proposed services will include the following:

• Provide day-to-day project management support to the Chief of Staff for the Office of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECE).
• Create project documentation, including weekly status reports, project schedules and plans, meeting minutes, risks and issues, other documentation as needed.
• Analyze, document, and escalate risks and issues identified during the day-to-day management federal grants awarded to ECE, providing mitigation strategies as needed; Monitor project deliverables.
• Provide day-to-day support for on-going budget processes utilized by ECE
• Provide on-going evaluation and improvements for ECE s budget processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and teams to provide support services related to the obligation, liquidation, and reconciliation of federal grant awards and ensure program and project goals are met;
• Develop and maintain reports and dashboards to visualize key performance indicators (KPIs);
• Develop innovative technical solutions, as requested, for:

o Assembling financial data for the OCC Quality Progress Report (QPR)

o Tracking issues identified during the day-to-day management of federal grants awarded to ECE.

• Participate in team meetings and presentations to communicate findings and recommendations.
• Perform additional duties related to this job title as needed and requested by LDOE for this task order.

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory:

• Seven (7) years of consulting and advisory services, training, change management or academic experience.
• Three (3) years of experience in accounting, including accounting cycles and processes, budgeting, and reporting.
• Intermediate or advanced-level expertise in Google Workspace (specifically Google Docs and Google Sheets), and the Microsoft Office Suite of products.
• Experience with LAGov, MTW GMS - Grants Management System (eGMS), and current ECE financial and operational grants management processes.
• Experience with the federal Quality Progress Report (QPR) for the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program and other similar funding sources.
• Experience facilitating cross-functional communications across various business units, including LDOE Fiscal Operations and Early Childhood stakeholders.
• Experience in analysing, processing, and reconciling large sets of data to identify trends and create data stories.
• Experience in working with subject matter experts to define, design, develop and deploy dashboards, consolidating data from multiple data sources into easy-to-interpret and actionable sets of information.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience creating project documentation for complex projects

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