Deputy Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Provide comprehensive operational leadership and ensure continuity across the 2B1 portfolio.

• Convert Project Manager directives into coordinated daily operations.

• Oversee task leads while maintaining the integrated schedule and management controls.

• Act on behalf of the Project Manager when assigned.

• Align simultaneous analysis, pilot, TTA, logistics, data, product, and reporting activities into a unified program.

• Manage daily PMO functions and uphold the integrated master schedule, milestone dashboard, action log, decision log, risk and issue register, deliverable calendar, and staffing forecast.

• Coordinate task leads and track dependencies across contract administration, marriage-penalty analysis, pilot strategy and execution, TTA, product development, communications, and performance assessment.

• Safeguard the 45-calendar-day analysis and pilot-strategy deadlines through workback schedules, progress evaluations, decision escalation, and surge recommendations.

• Lead the creation of meeting materials, monthly status updates, annual reporting contributions, quarterly performance reports, QASP revisions, and management briefings.

• Supervise Project Support, Logistics, and monitoring workflows to ensure deliverables comply with approved templates, version control, quality gates, and COR review processes.

• Coordinate staffing, consultant assignments, travel, events, pilot-site support, and product production capacity.

• Facilitate internal delivery reviews, document corrective actions, and confirm resolution of assigned issues and previous Government comments.

• Serve as acting Project Manager when officially designated and ensure continuity during absences, peak workloads, or urgent client requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Master's degree, preferably in the social sciences, along with at least seven years of pertinent field experience in project management, organizational development, strategic planning, means-tested programs, TANF or cash assistance, research and evaluation, TTA and training, or related domains.

• In place of a graduate degree, a Bachelor's degree combined with an additional ten years of relevant field experience beyond the seven-year minimum.

• Proven experience coordinating multiple workstreams, supervising task leads, managing intricate schedules, and generating precise federal reports and deliverables.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, problem-solving abilities, quality control, delegation, adaptability, monitoring, and task-completion discipline.

• Capacity to operate as a reliable second-in-command while ensuring clear accountability to the Project Manager and COR.

• Preferred: Experience with OFA, TANF, Tribal TANF, HMRF, or another federally funded human-services TTA program.

• Preferred: PMP, Agile, or similar project management certification.

• Preferred: Experience with rapid-cycle learning, pilot operations, product development, or federal meeting and reporting requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Collaborative and supportive work environment.