Project Monitor

Role Description

The Project Monitor operates the performance, data, and compliance monitoring system for projects. This individual translates the QASP and PWS into measurable definitions, reliable data-collection processes, dashboards, quarterly reports, and corrective-action workflows. The Project Monitor provides an objective view of whether TTA, pilots, products, and deliverables are timely, high quality, useful, and likely to produce sustainable results.

• Develop and maintain the performance-measure dictionary, data-collection plan, reporting calendar, source documentation, quality checks, and dashboard required by the QASP.
• Track the number, type, frequency, duration, level of effort, recipients, outputs, and status of TTA and program-support activities by quarter.
• Measure recipient roles, knowledge gain, use of rapid-cycle evaluation and learning, satisfaction, implementation progress, product use, and sustainability indicators.
• Monitor the PWS requirement that at least 85 percent satisfaction be achieved for sponsored training and technical assistance activities and flag emerging performance gaps.
• Compile quarterly performance and outcomes reports and provide validated monitoring inputs for monthly status reports, the annual report, briefings, and pilot learning products.
• Track deliverable schedules, review cycles, Government comments, acceptance status, quality findings, risks, corrective actions, and evidence of closure.
• Support pilot-site data planning, baseline and monitoring data, data dictionaries, data-use controls, privacy protections, missing-data rules, and cross-site synthesis.
• Conduct data-quality checks, reconcile source records, document limitations, and prevent unsupported causal claims or overstatement of results.
• Coordinate with the Project Leader and SME and Content Manager on logic models, measures, analytic questions, promising-practice evidence, and product performance.

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience in program monitoring, performance measurement, evaluation, data analysis, quality assurance, or federal contract compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to define measures, design data-collection tools, validate data, develop dashboards, and produce clear performance reports.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative data, surveys or feedback instruments, data dictionaries, documentation, and data-quality controls.
• Working knowledge of privacy, confidentiality, secure data handling, Section 508, and responsible reporting of limitations.
• Strong analytical writing and ability to explain performance findings to project leaders, technical staff, pilot sites, and nontechnical client audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate training in program evaluation, public policy, statistics, economics, sociology, public administration, or a related field.
• Experience with TANF, HMRF, means-tested programs, rapid-cycle learning, multi-site pilots, or human-services administrative data.
• Proficiency with Power BI, Tableau, Excel, R, Stata, SPSS, SAS, Qualtrics, or comparable analytics and survey tools.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in evaluation, statistics, economics, public policy, social science, public administration, or a related field required; master's degree preferred.
• Five or more years of directly relevant experience is preferred.