Project Leader

Job Description:

  • Direct the technical integration of the project.
  • Turn approved policy and research agendas into coordinated analysis, pilot, TTA, and product work.
  • Guide task teams and approved experts, ensuring findings become feasible recommendations and usable tools.
  • Lead technical planning and execution for the Marriage Penalty Analysis, Pilot Strategy, TTA provision, and product-development portfolio.
  • Develop analytic questions, evidence plans, readiness criteria, pilot design methods, tool concepts, and workstream-level schedules for Project Manager approval.
  • Coordinate TANF, tax, benefits, early-childhood, child-care, Tribal, HMRF, research, evaluation, organizational-development, communications, and implementation expertise.
  • Guide recruitment, readiness assessment, selection, onboarding, co-design, implementation, course correction, sustainability planning, and closeout for up to five pilot sites.
  • Design Universal, Targeted, and Intensive TTA activities, including peer learning, webinars, workshops, office hours, site-based support, and implementation coaching.
  • Oversee development of policy options, practitioner tools, templates, training resources, promising-practice products, and interactive or visual resources for nationwide use.
  • Lead technical reviews of recommendations for authority, evidence, cost and operational analysis, implementation prerequisites, and limitations.
  • Identify emerging policy, research, demographic, and field developments and translate signals into updated priorities, tools, and technical assistance.
  • Provide concise technical briefings to OFA and recommend decisions, tradeoffs, and corrective actions when workstream risks arise.

Requirements:

  • At least eight years of progressively responsible experience leading human-services, TANF, means-tested program, TTA, research-to-practice, organizational-development, or pilot-implementation work.
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate policy, evidence, program design, facilitation, and product development across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Experience managing technical experts, developing decision-ready deliverables, and supporting State, Tribal, local, grantee, or community partners.
  • Strong facilitation, analytical writing, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and implementation problem-solving skills.
  • Working knowledge of plain writing, Section 508, data stewardship, adult learning, and quality-review expectations for federal products.
  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • Master's degree preferred.
  • Direct experience with TANF or HMRF programs, marriage-penalty analysis, benefit cliffs, pilot design, or rapid-cycle learning preferred.
  • Experience producing national tools, templates, technical assistance resources, or multi-site implementation guidance preferred.

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