About Skylight\n\nSkylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.\n\nWe’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world.\n\nIf you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.\n\nThe work we do matters.\nAbout the job\n\nAt Skylight, engagement managers are responsible for driving the overall success of our client work. They draw on their expertise in areas such as agile project management practices, agile coaching at the organizational and team levels, project status and progress reporting, risk/issue management, stakeholder management, continual improvement, and contract administration in order to deliver the highest levels of client service and work.\n\nIn this role, you'll work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to enhance the grant recipient experience through service design. You'll be part of a team that shapes impactful solutions to improve how grant recipients access support, helping them deliver critical services to communities more efficiently and effectively. This is an opportunity to contribute to innovative projects that maximize the impact of government funding and improve the well-being of children, youth, families, and communities across the nation.\nWhat you’ll do\n\n\n* Translate the client’s objectives and constraints into an engagement approach that’ll deliver a unique experience and impactful results in the shortest amount of time possible\n\n* Assemble a multi-disciplinary team of experts from a variety of sources, including Skylight and other subcontractors, to deliver the engagement\n\n* Manage multiple projects aimed at delivering transformation or a specific product using the appropriate methodologies (e.g., Scrum or kanban)\n\n* Set up the team for successful delivery by removing obstacles, coaching them on how to become more collaborative and self-organizing, and enabling the work they do rather than impose how it’s done\n\n* Conduct retrospectives with both the client and Skylight team to learn what is and isn’t working well, and formulate and implement improvement actions\n\n* Provide management- and team-level visibility into the status and health of the engagement\n\n\n\nWhat we're looking for\nMinimum qualifications\n\n\n* Past experience managing large teams across multiple product portfolios or product lines\n\n* Understand how to apply agile principles to project and program management\n\n* Ability to understand client needs and build long-lasting, meaningful relationships with them\n\n* Ability to grow Skylight’s business through business development activities\n\n* Can cultivate team health, including establishing psychologically safe environments\n\n* Can ensure that each project is staffed with the appropriate level and types of personnel\n\n* Can ensure that teams are compliant with their contract’s terms and conditions\n\n* Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)\n\n* Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services\n\n* A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values\n\n* Ability to travel for work from time to time\n\n\n\nNice-to-have qualifications\n\n\n* Prior experience with grant programs for government or nonprofit organizations, particularly those related to health and human services\n\n* Familiarity with federal grant regulations and the ability to navigate grant lifecycle processes from application through reporting\n\n* A background in using data analytics to track the effectiveness and impact of grants, ensuring alignment with public service goals\n\n* Prior experience working in the civic tech space\n\n* Experience working in a remote-team environment\n\n\n\n\nDon’t meet 100% of the criteria but think you can do the job? We’d love to chat anyway! We’re on a mission to build diverse teams, and studies have shown that women and marginalized folks are less likely to apply to jobs if they don’t check every box.\nOther requirements\n\n\n* All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.\n\n* You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.\n\n* As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance.\n\n* You may be required to complete a company background check successfully.\n\n* Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.\n\n\n\nPosition type\n\nThis is a full-time, exempt position.\nLocation\n\nThis is a fully remote position.\nCare package\nSalary\n\nWe want to give you the most competitive salary possible. After all, you deserve it! To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority. For an Engagement Manager at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows:\n\n\nAssociate Engagement Manager: $90,000–$125,000\n\nEngagement Manager I: $120,000–$140,000\n\nEngagement Manager II: $135,000–$160,000\n\nSenior Engagement Manager: $150,000–$185,000\n\nStaff Engagement Manager: $170,000–$203,000\n\nPrincipal Engagement Manager: $180,000–$230,000\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\nYour well-being is important to us, so we focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:\n\n\nMedical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance\n\nShort-term and long-term disability insurance\n\nLife and AD&D insurance\n\nDependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account\n\nDollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period\n\nPaid time off, including 20 vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and flexible sick leave\n\nUp to 12 weeks paid time off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents\n\nPerformance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options\n\nBusiness development / sales bonuses\n\nReferral bonuses\n\nAnnual $2,000 allowance for professional development\n\nAnnual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases\n\nAnnual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)\n\nDollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year\n\nAccess up to $1,000 before payday to cover emergency expenses\n\nFlexible, remote-friendly work environment\n\nAn environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good\n\n\n\nInterview tips\n\nWe want you to have a great interview experience with us! Here are some tips to help you prepare for a successful interview:\n\n\nVisit our join page to learn more about how our interview process works.\n\nCheck out our Career Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.\n\nIf you’d like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process, please contact our recruiting team at [email protected].\n\n\n\n\nWe participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you’re authorized to work in the U.S.\n\nWe're an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design and Sales jobs that are similar:\n\n $42,500 — $90,000/year\n
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