Project Management Specialist

You understand the power of great service experience and its ability to inspire customer behavior. You have a keen understanding of what it takes to deliver exceptional services, both in front of the house and behind the scenes. But most of all, you see all of this in the context of furthering our clients’ core mission or business. The issues to be resolved are often difficult to define and quantify; may involve complex, traditionally competing interests; are often characterized by senior leadership interest and visibility, and require extensive probing and analysis. 

As project controller, you have financial oversight on a portfolio of federal government client projects. You work together with project managers and report directly to the vice president of accounting and vice president of delivery. You are a critical component of getting new projects off the ground quickly and setting them up for success from the start. The number of projects assigned will depend on the complexity, lines of effort, and number of employees on the given projects. Our ideal candidate is analytic, accurate, and works with a sense of urgency. They have a customer-service mindset when working with peers and supervisors, as well as clients. They have the ability to flow between different projects as well as the different versions of apps and software that the projects use.  

• Independently works in a team environment to research, prepare and deliver high quality, on-time deliverables to clients.
• Builds trust and rapport with client by seeing assigned tasks in the context of broader strategic goals, anticipating risks and needs, and supporting decisions through well researched, data-driven reports or other inputs to deliverables.
• Independently manages time to complete assigned tasks, leads others in completing simple tasks, and contributes to team effort.
• Broadens general knowledge, skills, and abilities within Technical Assent Capability Areas. 
• Develops deeper practical expertise in project Capability Areas. 
• Participates in and applies Technical Assent’s consulting approaches and methods. 
• Shares knowledge with internal and external peers through writing and speaking 3-5 times per year.
• Contributes to organizational capability by building reusable process assets, templates, and tools that improve the consistency of our services.
• Supports business development by playing an active role in researching customer needs, competitive environment, and actively supporting proposal efforts. 
• Recognizes opportunities and helps define customer solutions
• Work with Technical Assent Management to develop change orders or proposals that will solve the gap.
• Maintains a professional demeanor that is consistent with Technical Assent core values at all times. 

• Develop, implement, and monitor project budgets 
• Review deliverables for quality and contract requirements before submission  
• Maintain project schedules
• Support project knowledge management (organization of files, access management, etc.)
• Ensure project invoices are correct before submission to project managers
• Create monthly financial reports at budget level  
• Monitor project-employee timesheet submissions as well as travel expenditures and other expenses charged to the project
• Support project kick-off to include managing the kick-off checklist, developing the schedule, establishing a plan for deliverable submission, and obtaining security badges for contract personnel 
• Share knowledge with internal and external peers through writing and speaking opportunities 
• Contribute to organizational capability by building reusable process assets, templates, and tools that improve the consistency of our services
• Support business development by playing an active role in researching customer needs and the competitive environment as well as supporting proposal efforts.  

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years professional work experience in a government contracting setting 
• Trustworthy with personal, proprietary, and confidential information
• High level of skill in Excel and a strong user of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint and Google equivalents
• Strong understanding of how government contracting project budgets work
• Understands how government contract and subcontract award and modifications work
• Clear, confident communicator who uses correct tone and grammar when communicating with government clients.
• Experience tracking schedules and budgets
• Can engage with technology with comfort and ease (Power Point, Word, Excel, Teams, Monday, Slack, Mural, etc.)  

• CAPM or PMP certified  
• Prior experience doing contract modifications alongside project managers  
• Prior experience managing business travel in government contracting environment 

Primarily work from home. Report to the office in downtown Washington, D.C., for in-person work as needed.  

Technical Assent is passionate about services – in government, business, and not-for-profit. We design exceptional service experiences, engineer them to be robust, and deliver real capability and business outcomes for our clients. You will be working on government programs that have strategic importance to our client.  Your team will work IN and ON the client’s core mission – helping them to deliver their services day-to-day while simultaneously looking for opportunities to improve.  Our work is Driven by Evidence, Grounded in Understanding, and Focused on Impact.  

We look for these attributes in our teammates.

• Our team combines the creative and the pragmatic to deliver the results that matter most to our clients.  We see beauty when art and science come together.
• We seek self-starters, people who are confident in tackling challenges independently and bringing this to high-performing teams.  We continually seek feedback from our customers and employees, looking for opportunities to grow.
• We are a small company which gives you an essential voice in shaping our culture.  You will help grow our culture, and you will grow from the experience, too.

You will be part of a team to take an improvement concept and transform it into a capability – an asset that provides measurable value to our client’s mission.  The team will work with users, prototype, develop, and deliver new capabilities.  We hold ourselves accountable to impacting outcomes.