Senior Consultant, Child Support Enforcement Project Manager

Project Manager For Federal Child Support Enforcement Modernization

As part of a multidisciplinary team, serve as the Project Manager for federal child support enforcement modernization support initiatives focused on child support technology modernization, program operations, certification readiness, and systems transformation. Lead day-to-day project execution, manage team activities and deliverables, coordinate with federal staff, state IV-D agencies, technology partners, and project teams, and provide strategic direction to support modernization planning, implementation oversight, risk management, and long-term program effectiveness.

Responsibilities may include:

• Provide project management leadership and oversight for child support enforcement modernization, program operations, and systems transformation support activities.
• Manage project workplans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, staffing assignments, and internal coordination to ensure timely, high-quality execution.
• Provide strategic direction across work streams, helping the team translate federal and state priorities into actionable plans, decision points, and client-ready products.
• Oversee risk, issue, and dependency management, including identifying project risks, developing mitigation strategies, escalating concerns, and tracking resolution.
• Manage and provide direction to a multidisciplinary team supporting CSE modernization activities, including program, policy, technology, data, research, and communications work streams.
• Serve as a primary client-facing point of coordination, maintaining strong relationships with federal staff, state IV-D agencies, technology partners, and internal leadership.
• Oversee support for the review and analysis of Advanced Planning Documents (APDs), feasibility studies, certification materials, modernization roadmaps, procurement strategies, and implementation plans.
• Guide development of modernization frameworks, playbooks, procurement guidance, reusable assets, knowledge management resources, and technical assistance products.
• Lead planning and facilitation for interviews, workshops, listening sessions, stakeholder engagement activities, and client meetings.
• Oversee analysis of modernization portfolios, project performance, certification readiness, financial data, governance structures, vendor performance, and implementation risks.
• Review and guide executive briefings, reports, strategic communications, presentations, decision memoranda, dashboards, portfolio analyses, and implementation support materials.
• Coordinate across data, technology, and program teams to identify modernization opportunities, lessons learned, leading practices, and cross-state trends.
• Support continuous improvement by monitoring project performance, strengthening internal processes, improving quality controls, and ensuring lessons learned inform future work.

What You Will Need:

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
• Bachelors Degree
• FIVE (5) or more years of professional experience, including direct project management experience leading complex federal, state, or human services initiatives.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in human services, social work, public administration, business administration, information systems, project management, or a related field.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or other recognized project/program management certification.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects, teams, workplans, schedules, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, and competing priorities.
• Experience providing oversight, strategic direction, and quality control across multidisciplinary teams and complex work streams.
• Experience managing client relationships, facilitating decision-making, preparing leadership communications, and coordinating across federal, state, vendor, and internal stakeholders.
• Direct experience supporting child support enforcement (IV-D) programs, state child support agencies, federal child support initiatives, or related human services programs.
• Strong understanding of the child…