Senior Project Director

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

📋 Description

• Direct and manage a significant, intricate, multi-million-dollar federal contract.

• Provide strategic, operational, and programmatic leadership while ensuring accountability for performance, staffing, deliverables, schedules, finances, communications, quality, and risks.

• Act as a senior-level liaison with the Children’s Bureau, COR, ACF, OCIO leadership, and other governmental stakeholders.

• Develop and sustain project management processes and tools, including work plans, schedules, resource plans, performance metrics, executive reporting, and risk and issue management.

• Oversee contract budgeting, forecasting, expenditures, invoicing, profitability, and financial performance.

• Lead workforce planning, staffing, recruitment, onboarding, staff development, performance management, and retention efforts.

• Ensure oversight and quality assurance for technical assistance services and deliverables that support child welfare information systems.

• Steer activities related to CCWIS, legacy systems, Title IV-E automation, APDs, federal reporting programs, and data governance and quality initiatives.

• Support ACF and OCIO governance requirements, stage-gate reviews, Integrated Project Team activities, project-health reporting, and federal oversight processes.

• Prepare status reports, executive briefings, management reviews, meeting materials, and contract communications.

• Facilitate collaboration among government leaders, program and policy staff, technical teams, contractors, and partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, public administration, social work, or a related discipline.

• 15+ years of progressive experience in project, program, or contract leadership within child welfare, human services, information technology, or a closely related area.

• Extensive experience managing large, complex, multi-million-dollar federal projects or contracts.

• At least 10 years of experience supporting child welfare or closely related human services programs.

• Proven experience leading large multidisciplinary teams that are geographically dispersed.

• Demonstrated experience managing annual contract budgets exceeding $10 million.

• Solid knowledge of child welfare information system modernization, including CCWIS and Title IV-E automation.

• Familiarity with CCWIS, legacy Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information Systems, and federal child welfare reporting programs such as AFCARS, NYTD, and NCANDS.

• Knowledge of Advance Planning Documents, state procurement, independent verification and validation, agile delivery, and information technology governance.

• Experience engaging directly with senior government clients and coordinating efforts across program, policy, operational, and technical stakeholders.

• Ability to obtain and maintain HHS Level 5 Public Trust suitability.

• Capability to provide strategic, operational, and fiscal leadership for large, complex federal contracts.

• Capacity to act as a trusted advisor to senior officials and manage high-level client relationships.

• Ability to translate intricate child welfare policy, program, data, and technology requirements into actionable guidance.

• Strong skills in executive briefing, presentation, and written communication.

• Preferred: Master’s degree, PMP certification, executive leadership experience, federal contract leadership experience, technical assistance experience, and exposure to public-sector information systems, organizational change management, human-centered design, data governance, or modernization-readiness planning.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employment.

• Reasonable accommodations for disabilities, disabled veterans, and sincerely held religious beliefs.

• Confidential accommodation support.

• Benefit offerings referenced in the Transparency in Coverage Act materials.