The Mom Project is excited to support their customer, a tech organization whose mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together, with their upcoming contract based hiring needs.

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Our Customer is seeking a skilled and knowledgeable contract Public Policy Manager to support the External Affairs team's budget and operational processes. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the team's budget, onboarding vendors, communicating with internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with the financial policies. This role is a hybrid setup (3 days on-site at their office in Penn Quarter).

Responsibilities

• Monitor and manage the External Affairs team budget - including day-to-day operations of the budget process - ensuring accuracy and compliance with the inancial policies.
• Forecast quarterly budgets with the finance team, ensuring accurate and timely financial planning.
• Onboard vendors, ensuring seamless integration and compliance with the procurement processes.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for the team on budget, onboarding, and ad credit processes, providing guidance and support to team members as needed, and ensuring effective utilization of resources.
• Meet monthly with External Affairs leads, and collaborate with Policy admins, to ensure visibility and transparency of team budgets, and to provide budget updates and ensure alignment.
• Provide the team with End-of-Year (EOY) deadlines and shepherd the process to ensure compliance.
• Manage several cross-functional review processes end-to-end, including intaking proposals, updating trackers, soliciting and organizing feedback, and obtaining and documenting the appropriate approvals.
• Communicate externally with outside counsel, and collaborate internally with legal and compliance teams, to ensure organizations and vendors meet the policies.
  
  

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in budget or program management, or a related field
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Proficiency in productivity and financial management tools
• Experience working cross-functionally across different teams (eg, finance, legal, compliance).
  
  

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.