• Job Description

  Req#: 40144
  100% Remote
  
  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.

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