Data Program Manager

Job Summary:

The Data Program Manager/Specialist will oversee and coordinate a multi-phase administrative cost allocation and federal claiming support project. This role involves managing project activities, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring delivery of compliant, timely, and well-documented outputs. The position requires strong analytical skills combined with project leadership to support methodology development, fiscal impact analysis, and transition planning within a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate project activities across team members, fiscal leadership, and program staff.
• Manage workstreams, staffing assignments, milestones, dependencies, and deliverable timelines.
• Lead or facilitate working sessions to validate assumptions and align solutions with operational realities.
• Oversee assessment execution, methodology development, PACAP preparation, implementation planning, and fiscal impact analysis.
• Ensure quality, completeness, and timeliness of project documentation and deliverables.
• Support development of allocation methodologies, cost pools, formulas, matrices, and operational reporting structures.
• Coordinate responses to stakeholder comments, federal questions, and documentation revisions.
• Support implementation planning and transition readiness for approved methodologies.
• Monitor team performance and alignment with scope, compliance, and operational expectations.

Required Skills & Certifications:

• Experience in cost allocation plan generation.
• Strong data analysis skills.
• Ability to support all deliverables, qualifications, and scope requirements described in the RFR.
• Experience coordinating staff, tasks, and structured project delivery.

Preferred Skills & Certifications:

• Additional data analysis experience beyond the minimum scope.
• Experience leading public-sector, grants, compliance, or cost allocation projects.
• Experience managing documentation-heavy engagements with multiple stakeholders.

Special Considerations:

• Staff management responsibilities are designated to Program Manager roles, not this specialist role.
• Substitution of key personnel requires justification and equivalent or stronger qualifications.
• Must maintain sufficient staffing capacity and project oversight throughout the engagement.

Scheduling:

• Hybrid work location with onsite presence at 1001 N. 23rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802.
• Work hours per week vary depending on workload and project phase.
• Project term runs from December 14, 2026 to December 31, 2028.