Head Start Project Director

Job Description

Job Description

Description :

Join a team dedicated to improving Federal grant programs. We seek a Head Start Project Director with extensive experience managing large, preferably nationwide, early childhood programs and managing client relationships. The ideal candidate will have a deep background in developing nationwide monitoring reviews and protocols, ensuring program integrity and excellence. This pivotal role is contingent upon a successful contract award. Travel is required.

At the Vander Weele Group, we are passionate about improving Federal and state grant programs and the agencies that manage them. Our goal is to make grants oversight and monitoring more effective, thereby empowering organizations to better serve grantees and the public.

Key Responsibilities :

• Create and monitor a project workplan, ensuring effective allocation of resources resulting in deliverables that are completed on time and within budget.
• Manage the client relationship, including leading client meetings, providing timely status and report updates, and skillfully advising and guiding the client through project completion, ensuring their needs are met in a way that reflects well on the organization.
• Oversee staff responsible for creating reviews, protocols, reports, and data analysis content, ensuring alignment with program objectives and federal performance standards.
• Ensure workloads are assigned, managed, and corrected to provide high-level quality in all client deliverables.
• Implement a quality control system for monitoring and reviewing client work and reviews developed and used within the nationwide program.
• Create and ensure timely reporting to the client.
• Manage staff, ensuring expectations are clear, one-on-one meetings and team meetings are scheduled frequently, and performance issues are handled effectively.

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