Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. K.L. Scott & Associates, LLC. is seeking a Deputy Project Manager to provide operational leadership and continuity across the 2B1 portfolio. The role translates Project Manager direction into coordinated execution, supervises task leads, maintains management controls, and supports analysis, pilot, training and technical assistance, logistics, data, product, and reporting activities.
Responsibilities
- Manage daily PMO operations and maintain the integrated master schedule, milestone dashboard, action log, decision log, risk and issue register, deliverable calendar, and staffing forecast
- Coordinate task leads and monitor dependencies among contract administration, marriage-penalty analysis, pilot strategy and implementation, TTA, product development, communications, and performance measurement
- Protect the 45-calendar-day analysis and pilot-strategy deadlines through detailed workback schedules, progress reviews, decision escalation, and surge recommendations
- Lead preparation of meeting materials, monthly status reports, annual reporting inputs, quarterly performance reports, QASP updates, and management briefings
- Supervise Project Support, Logistics, and monitoring workflows and ensure work products follow approved templates, version control, quality gates, and COR review processes
- Coordinate staffing, consultant assignments, travel, events, pilot-site support, and product-production capacity in response to changing priorities
- Facilitate internal delivery reviews, document corrective actions, and verify closure of assigned issues and prior Government comments
- Serve as acting Project Manager when formally delegated and maintain seamless continuity during absences, peak workload, or urgent client needs
Skills
- Master's degree, preferably in the social sciences, and at least seven years of relevant field experience in project management, organizational development, strategic planning, means-tested programs, TANF or cash assistance, research and evaluation, TTA and training, or related fields
- In lieu of a graduate degree, a bachelor's degree and ten additional years of practical and relevant field experience beyond the seven-year field-experience minimum
- Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple workstreams, supervising task leads, maintaining complex schedules, and producing accurate federal reports and deliverables
- Excellent written and oral communication, problem solving, quality control, delegation, flexibility, monitoring, and task-completion discipline
- Ability to operate as a trusted second-in-command while preserving clear accountability to the Project Manager and COR
- Experience with OFA, TANF, Tribal TANF, HMRF, or another federally funded human-services TTA program
- PMP, Agile, or comparable project-management credential
- Experience with rapid-cycle learning, pilot operations, product development, or federal meeting and reporting requirements
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