Project Manager – Fraud Analytics Programs

Hourly pay range: $76.43–$78.93
Employment type: Full-time
Schedule: Approximately 1,920 hours annually
Location: Primarily remote, with occasional onsite work in Washington, DC

Position Summary

The Project Manager will provide overall management, coordination, and delivery oversight for advanced data analytics, fraud-detection, investigative-support, forensic-accounting, and analytic-technology activities performed for the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee.

The Project Manager will serve as the primary interface for contractor management with the Contracting Officer, Contracting Officer's Representative, government program leadership, technical stakeholders, and supporting contractors. The position is responsible for ensuring that contract activities are properly staffed, planned, executed, documented, quality controlled, and delivered within approved cost, schedule, scope, and performance requirements.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of advanced analytics and investigative-support projects involving fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.
• Manage multidisciplinary teams that may include data scientists, data engineers, graph specialists, investigative analysts, forensic accountants, business analysts, and technical support personnel.
• Establish and maintain integrated project plans, sprint schedules, milestones, dependencies, resource assignments, and deliverable calendars.
• Manage agile delivery activities, including backlog development, sprint planning, daily coordination, demonstrations, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Monitor contract performance against cost, schedule, scope, quality, staffing, and customer-satisfaction objectives.
• Identify project risks, issues, constraints, and dependencies and implement timely mitigation and corrective-action plans.
• Coordinate parallel analytic and investigative projects while maintaining clear priorities and resource allocation.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for contractor performance, staffing, schedule, and deliverable matters.
• Facilitate technical meetings, management reviews, project-status meetings, and executive briefings.
• Ensure that government requests, decisions, action items, and feedback are documented, assigned, and resolved.
• Oversee the preparation and submission of monthly progress reports, financial reports, status updates, risk registers, schedules, and management deliverables.
• Coordinate transition, knowledge transfer, and continuity of existing analytic models, data pipelines, tools, and investigative-support activities.
• Monitor key-personnel availability and ensure adequate coverage during normal government duty hours.
• Coordinate with other government contractors and stakeholders to prevent duplication, scheduling conflicts, or operational disruption.
• Maintain compliance with contract terms, technical requirements, quality-control procedures, and government policies.
• Support oral presentations, technical demonstrations, program reviews, and government briefings.
• Ensure that final deliverables are submitted within required review and revision timeframes.
• Meet with government personnel within required response periods when performance or technical issues arise.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of experience managing agile projects.
• Minimum of five years of experience managing the delivery of fraud-analytics solutions.
• Demonstrated experience supporting advanced analytic and investigative services comparable in size, complexity, and scope to the PRAC requirement.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex analytics projects involving fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement.
• Experience supporting large federal-benefit programs or similarly complex public-sector programs.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project cost, schedule, staffing, scope, dependencies, and performance.
• Strong understanding of fraud-detection, fraud-prevention, investigative analytics, and program-integrity activities.
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary technical and investigative teams.
• Strong knowledge of agile delivery methods, project governance, risk management, issue management, and quality assurance.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated experience communicating with senior government or organizational leadership.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong organizational, planning, multitasking, conflict-resolution, and time-management skills.
• Ability to prepare clear project plans, status reports, schedules, risk registers, and executive briefings.
• Ability to complete federal suitability, HSPD-12/PIV credentialing, and system-access requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting an Office of Inspector General, federal law-enforcement organization, federal oversight organization, or emergency-relief program.
• Experience managing projects involving Azure Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server, Power BI, Neo4j, Python, SQL, machine learning, or graph analytics.
• Experience managing data-ingestion, entity-resolution, fraud-modeling, investigative-analysis, or forensic-accounting projects.
• Project Management Professional, Certified ScrumMaster, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, or comparable certification.
• Bachelor's or graduate degree in project management, business administration, data science, information technology, criminal justice, public administration, or a related discipline.