The posting
Company Description
TechSilo is a small technology and engineering services firm in Fredericksburg, Virginia. We support federal defense customers, including a multi-year Navy engineering program, and we are growing into higher education and public-sector analytics. The team is small and senior, so you work directly with our CEO and with the client's decision makers.
Job Description
Keep several analytics projects moving at once, and be the one person the client calls. The client will issue work in separate Task Orders, each with its own question, data, deadline, and budget. You scope each one with the client, put the right people on it, protect the budget, and step in before a problem becomes a missed date. You also decide when work is ready to go out the door. This role suits someone who has run multi-project engagements and likes keeping many moving parts honest.
What you'll do
- Serve as the client's primary contact for the engagement. Run an intake session for each Task Order and agree the question, datasets, outputs, review points, and delivery dates.
- Scope each Task Order with the client and propose the labor categories, estimated hours, and not-to-exceed value for the work.
- Plan capacity across Task Orders running at the same time. Confirm each person's availability and competing commitments before committing to a schedule, and line up backups.
- Direct the delivery team, including Task Leads, data scientists, analysts, a dashboard developer, and the senior quality assurance reviewer. Resolve conflicts between Task Orders before they reach a milestone.
- Track hours, spend, and forecast against each Task Order ceiling. When the ceiling is at risk, bring the client options before any extra work is done.
- Own escalation. Raise risks, schedule changes, and scope changes with the client promptly, and get changes to scope, hours, or dates approved in writing.
- Make sure every deliverable receives independent senior review before release, separate from the people who produced it.
- Hold the line on the client's data and AI commitments: client data stays in our managed environment, and we use artificial intelligence only with the client's approval.
- Act as Task Lead on smaller assignments when the workload allows.
How the role works
Hours are authorized Task Order by Task Order, typically 5 to 10 per week when work is active, with more during the intake of a new Task Order. There is no guaranteed minimum, and the role starts only if the contract is awarded. You set your schedule within the delivery dates. Finalists may be asked to sign a commitment letter, and their resume may be shared with the client.
Qualifications
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience.
- At least 12 years of professional experience, including directing professional services engagements made up of several projects.
- Experience running multiple client assignments at once, each with its own scope, schedule, and budget.
- Hands-on financial oversight: tracking hours and spend against a contract ceiling and forecasting what is left.
- Experience directing technical specialists, such as analysts, data scientists, or engineers, without needing to do their work yourself.
- Clear, direct writing and speaking with senior client decision makers, including delivering unwelcome news early.
- Based in the US and able to work remotely, part-time, in TechSilo's managed environment.
Preferred
- Experience on data or analytics engagements.
- Experience with task order or time-and-materials contracts, including managing to a not-to-exceed value.
- Work for a university, a public agency, or another organization made of many separate entities.
- Familiarity with sustainability, procurement, or spend data.
- A project management credential such as PMP.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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