Data Program Manager/Specialist

Role: Data Program Manager/ Specialists

Remote

Data Program Manager/Specialists to lead and support the development and implementation of compliant administrative cost allocation methodologies and federal claiming processes across USDOL, Vocational Rehabilitation, SNAP E&T, TANF, and other federally funded programs.

This position combines project/program coordination, governmental cost allocation, federal grant claiming, financial modeling, regulatory compliance, documentation, and data analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate cost allocation and federal claiming activities across Louisiana Works federally funded programs.
• Coordinate regularly with Louisiana Works Fiscal leadership, program staff, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate structured working sessions to review findings, validate operational assumptions, and establish appropriate allocation methodologies.
• Maintain project timelines, activities, dependencies, deliverables, and implementation milestones.
• Lead assessment of current administrative cost structures and allocation practices.
• Develop compliant and defensible administrative cost allocation methodologies.
• Identify shared cost pools and establish appropriate allocation bases and formulas.
• Ensure allocation methodologies are necessary, reasonable, allocable, consistently applied, and adequately documented.
• Oversee development of financial models measuring federal and state fiscal impacts.
• Lead/support development and revision of Public Assistance Cost Allocation Plans (PACAPs).
• Prepare or oversee PACAP narratives, schedules, allocation documentation, and submission-ready packages.
• Support federal review, negotiation, questions, and approval processes.
• Develop written responses to federal reviewers and coordinate revisions based on federal feedback.
• Develop an implementation roadmap for operationalizing approved cost allocation methodologies.
• Provide guidance concerning time reporting, coding structures, financial-system requirements, and internal controls.
• Evaluate opportunities to maximize allowable federal reimbursement while maintaining federal and state compliance.
• Analyze changes in federal participation and reimbursement rates and their fiscal impact.
• Produce executive-level reports, financial impact analyses, recommendations, and documentation.
• Support post-implementation validation, methodology refinement, federal review, and training.
• Apply 2 CFR Part 200, 45 CFR Part 95 Subpart E, USDOL, RSA, FNS, TANF, and other applicable federal requirements. RFR SR-5279587 RFR SR-5279587

Mandatory Experience

The RFR explicitly requires Data Program Manager/Specialist candidates to have:

• Cost allocation plan generation experience
• Experience necessary to satisfy the Scope of Services, deliverables, and qualifications
• Data analysis experience RFR SR-5279587

Additional data analysis experience beyond the required project scope is desirable.