Project Manager, Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs

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About the Position

Dexis is seeking a Project Manager to support an anticipated monitoring, evaluation, and data services contract with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB). The contract will provide on-demand evaluation, rapid study, training, data analysis, visualization, and synthesis support for ILAB-funded technical assistance projects and other program areas. 

The Project Manager will oversee day-to-day contract operations and ensure assignments are appropriately staffed, completed on schedule, delivered within budget, and responsive to ILAB requirements. The Manager will coordinate evaluators, technical specialists, subcontractors, and other contributors while serving as the primary operational liaison with the Contracting Officer’s Representative. 

This position is contingent upon award.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary point of contact for daily contract operations and act on contract management matters. 

• Manage workflow across evaluators, technical specialists, subcontractors, and other personnel. 

• Develop and implement staffing plans, project plans, schedules, budgets, and quality control standards. 

• Plan and assign work based on each task’s scope, timeline, and required expertise. 

• Maintain a qualified bench across evaluation methods, sectors, geographies, and languages. 

• Coordinate personnel availability so newly assigned work begins within required timeframes. 

• Monitor performance, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and personnel workloads across concurrent assignments. 

• Identify operational or performance challenges and recommend timely resolutions. 

• Coordinate with the Lead Evaluator so staffing and operations support technical requirements. 

• Act as operational liaison among the COR, ILAB task managers, evaluation teams, subcontractors, and stakeholders. 

• Oversee communications, scheduling, fieldwork support, evaluator travel, and applicable country clearance requirements. 

• Manage monthly progress reports and other required deliverables. 

• Review products for completeness, compliance, consistency, schedule, and quality. 

• Support Section 508-compliant products in English and other requested languages. 

• Remain available during standard Eastern Time business hours and outside those hours when fieldwork requires. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher. 

• At least five years of contract management experience in an international development context. 

• At least five years of experience performing or overseeing multiple types of monitoring, evaluation, and learning services. 

• At least five years of experience managing administrative responsibilities, deadlines, and required deliverables. 

• At least five years of experience building and maintaining productive stakeholder relationships. 

• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary personnel, consultants, subcontractors, or distributed teams. 

• Ability to manage concurrent assignments with different schedules, staffing needs, budgets, and deliverables. 

• Strong organizational, problem-solving, quality control, and client relationship management skills. 

• Fluency in written and spoken English. 

• Ability to produce and edit high-quality English-language deliverables on schedule. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience managing DOL monitoring, evaluation, research, or learning contracts. 

• Experience with task-based or on-demand assignments requiring rapid staffing and mobilization. 

• Familiarity with international travel, country clearance, research approval, and fieldwork logistics. 

• Experience related to international labor, worker rights, child labor, forced labor, human trafficking, trade, or global supply chains. 

• Experience coordinating multilingual deliverables and geographically dispersed teams. 

Below is the pay range aligned with this position. When developing a range, Dexis evaluates compensation holistically, triangulating between external market research, our budget for the position, and internal equity to arrive at a figure that is fair and competitive. Offers within this range will be based on an individual candidate's qualification, relevant education and experience, skills, performance, and organizational needs.

Benefits

Dexis offers benefits to support employees’ health, financial security, and well-being. The benefits outlined below are for full-time, US-based positions only. These benefits include:

• Medical and prescription drug coverage: A choice of three UnitedHealthcare medical plans, with coverage options for employees and eligible dependents.
• Dental insurance: Dental coverage for employees and eligible dependents, including preventive, basic, major, and orthodontic services, subject to plan limits.
• Company-paid vision insurance: Vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents, with premiums paid in full by Dexis.
• Employer-funded health reimbursement arrangement (HRA): Employees who enroll in the Silver HRA medical plan receive an employer-funded HRA to help pay eligible in-network deductible expenses.
• Company-paid life and disability insurance: Basic life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Optional supplemental insurance: Voluntary supplemental life and AD&D insurance options, including life insurance options for eligible dependents.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Company-paid access to confidential counseling and legal and financial support resources for employees and their families.
• Health and wellness resources: Virtual care, behavioral health resources, and wellness programs available through the medical plan.
• Benefits assistance: Personalized support with benefit enrollment, coverage questions, claims, and finding providers through the Employee Care Center.

Participation, coverage, and employee contributions are subject to applicable benefit plan terms and eligibility requirements.

Dexis is on a mission to help solve today’s most pressing global political, social, and economic challenges and create a world where all people are safe and prosperous. As a Dexis employee, you will be challenged, empowered, and mentored. Our motto is “find a way or make a way” — that’s how Dexis goes “all in.” How will you? 

If you are passionate about this opportunity, apply now!

Only those applicants who meet the above criteria will be contacted for interview.

Dexis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, pregnancy, disability, age, genetic information, military service, veteran status, ethnicity, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, childbirth and related medical conditions, including lactation, or any other protected class under applicable law.

As part of a competitive benefits package for eligible employees, Dexis provides healthcare insurance in addition to other staff welfare benefits and perks.