What are the responsibilities and job description for the Support Services Project Manager/Specialist position at Krasan Consulting Services?
Job Title: Support Services Project Manager/Specialist
Location: Remote
Type of contract: W2/C2C
Duration: Long Term
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:
- Assembling financial data for the OCC Quality Progress Report (QPR)
- 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 analyzing, 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
Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are desirable but not mandatory:
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA);
- Experience in analyzing the flow of data across systems of record to gain insight into business operations; communicate outcomes, potential bottlenecks, and the impact of decisions to stakeholders; and streamline processes to enhance efficiency.
- Has familiarity, experience, knowledge and/or background in the federal CCDF program.
