Data Analyst & Data Program Manager​/Specialist

• Actual Job Title LW Federally Funded Programs
• Job Type FT Contract
• Contract duration 1 year
• Date Opened 10/05/2026
• Target Date 10/21/2026
• State/Province Louisiana
• Country United States
• Number of Positions 1

The Office of Technology Services (OTS) was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks,third party software, and custom applications.

OTS leads the State’s technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over theentire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies.

The State intends to secure temporary IT personnel for job title(s) listed below:

IT Staffing Resource Area: 2 Data Analysts Number of resources: 2IT Staffing Resource Area: 2 Data Program Manager/Specialist Number of resources: 2

The scope of the proposed services will include the following:

This proposal by Louisiana Works is to obtain staff to complete cost allocation, financial modeling,documentation, implementation support, and federal claiming support for all United States Department of Labor (USDOL) grants, all Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) grants, the SNAP Employment and Training (SNAP E&T) grant, TANF grant, and any other federal funds awardedto Louisiana Works in their entirety. The resources should be available to work both onsite and remotely.

Background and Purpose Louisiana Works administers and supports multiple federally funded workforce,employment and training, vocational rehabilitation, and assistance programs. These programs include all applicable USDOL grants, all VR grants, the SNAP E&T grant, TANFgrant, and any other federal funds awarded to Louisiana Works in their entirety.

Administrative functions, including program operations, information technology, policy development, fiscal oversight, and management support, may be shared across these funding sources.

Personnel and shared administrative resources may perform work that materially benefits more than one covered grant program. Louisiana Works requires a compliant, documented,and sustainable cost allocation methodology to support integrated operations, ensure costsare charged to benefiting programs, and support accurate federal claiming and financial reporting.

Louisiana Works may use prospective time coding and other cost-capture controls.to ensure personnel and other shared costs are charged to benefiting programs. The Contractor shall

assess these controls and recommend improvements needed to support compliant federal claiming under the covered grants.

Differences among federal participation, reimbursement, maintenance-of-effort, and program-specific requirements increase the importance of accurate cost allocation, sound documentation, and timely financial reporting for all covered grant funds.

Accordingly, Louisiana Works must establish a defensible administrative cost allocation methodology that supports integrated operations while ensuring compliance with federal andstate cost principles and claiming requirements.

The objective of this engagement is to establish a sustainable administrative cost allocation structure capable of supporting integrated program and administrative operations and maintaining compliance with federal claiming requirements as program structures evolve.

The services described in this Scope of Work require the application of professional accounting judgement, including the interpretation and application of federal and state…