Budget & Pricing Analyst II

by Irma Moore | Oct 2, 2024 | Uncategorized

This position is primarily remote however on occasion may require the selected candidate to work from our Johnstown, PA office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Development of project budgets with Technical Project Manager’s assistance.
• Development of direct project forecasts / re-forecasts on a monthly basis.
• Provide reporting and analysis to Management highlighting variance analysis and financial risks/opportunities.
• Develop Estimates at Complete (Re-Forecasts) for revenue recognition purposes on Firm Fixed Price projects, ensuring adherence to corporate policies guiding revenue recognition.
• Support Technical Proposal Managers with proposal preparation including cost estimating/pricing, bid/no-bid analysis, risk mitigation, and price negotiations with clients. Ability to recommend areas where proposed costs could be reduced/tightened to improve price competitiveness.
• Support responses provided to external auditors on their audit inquiries on direct project financials.
• Ensures, with occasional oversight/assistance as needed, proper procedures are followed for accurate development of cost proposals in accordance with solicitation requirements and company guidelines.
• Prepares profitability analysis on Firm Fixed Price and Time & Material type proposals – and highlights potential areas of concern.
• Preparation, with occasional oversight/assistance as needed, of required monthly financial reports for both internal company and external client customers.
• Provides budget analysis/support to Technical Project Managers by ensuring accuracy of inputs into the standard company Forecast Tool (TM1), and in monitoring/re-forecasting costs during all stages of direct project execution. Assists in the early determination of potential financial execution problems and recommends alternate solutions that optimize the financial execution of direct projects.
• Advises Technical Project Managers on over/under-utilized personnel and encourages interaction between project managers and line managers for optimal direct labor usage.
• Demonstrates a positive, respectful, and professional demeanor and communicates effectively and efficiently.
• Assists Technical Project Managers in achieving direct project – non-labor forecasts by proactively promoting Subcontractor, Material, Equipment, and Other Direct Cost purchasing and billing – working together with other cognizant departments within the company to achieve these financial targets.
• Supports Division Lead Business Analysts in all activities in the Divisional Quarterly Revenue Forecast process. Adheres to Quarterly Forecast Cycle published schedule/due dates and responsive to all vetting actions led by Division Lead Business Analysts.
• Supports for assigned direct project workload all critical company-wide financial reporting activities such as the Firm Fixed Price (FFP) Revenue/Fee Recognition Report, Limitation of Funds Report, and Project Profit/Loss Report.
• Serves, with occasional oversight/assistance as needed as the primary liaison on operational/financial matters between Technical/Project Management and Proposal Shop, Procurement, Contract Resource, and Human Resource personnel.

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Business, Finance, Accounting or related academic field plus 2-4 years directly related experience.
• FP&A – Financial Planning and Analysis.
• Understanding of financial analysis principles and strong financial analysis skills.
• Strong communicator of financial issues/risks to non-financial personnel.
• Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Strong financial modeling skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Department of Defense or Intel Community Federal Contractor experience, Deltek/Costpoint Business Intelligence Reports / TM1

Why CTC?

• Our teams at CTC are passionate and thrive on collaboration in a team environment
• When we encounter a difficult problem, we have a variety of talented and diverse employees that work together to solve the toughest challenges
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Although our work at CTC is extremely important, we also recognize the need for our employees to maintain a proper mix of work and personal life
• Visit www.ctc.com to learn more!

Join us! CTC offers exceptional career growth, cutting edge technology, educational opportunities, and recognition for quality work.

Grant Writer

by Irma Moore | Oct 2, 2024 | Uncategorized

About Mast Reforestation (Mast): 

As the leading end-to-end reforestation company in the U.S., Mast is on a mission to make reforestation scalable. As bigger and hotter fires destroy more forestland every year, Mast provides fast, resilient forest restoration for landowners impacted by devastating wildfires. As the only vertically-integrated reforestation company in the industry, Mast has removed the financial, procedural, and seed supply barriers that typically stand in the way of getting reforestation done.  Mast collects native, diverse seed species and manages site preparation, planting, and ongoing monitoring, delivering high quality projects.  By assembling first-of-its-kind third party capital, Mast delivers these projects at no-cost to landowners.  With trusted forestry companies Silvaseed and Cal Forest in its portfolio, Mast is the largest seed bank and reforestation container stock producer in the Western U.S. Mast is also an innovation center for the non-timber forestry supply chain, developing various biological and technical products for achieving land management goals more efficiently. To learn more, visit www.mastreforest.com and watch this video of our recent Montana project (hyperlink: https://www.mastreforest.com/reforestation)

If you’re inspired by our work, we’d encourage you to apply!

Mast Reforestation is seeking an experienced and dynamic Grant Writer to manage the development, submission, and tracking of grant proposals to support our reforestation efforts. This role will collaborate with various internal stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and secure publicly available grants from federal, state, local, agency, and non-profit sources. The Grant Writer will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of grant processes, including researching funding opportunities, developing project budgets, writing compelling proposals, managing grant reporting requirements, being responsible for the submission which includes all forms required, and maintaining compliance with grant terms and conditions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in grant writing, procurement strategy, and project management, as well as experience working with cross-functional teams to drive success in acquiring funding for critical projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Research and identify, and prioritize potential grants and funding sources that support carbon credit generation through reforestation.
• Develop and implement government procurement strategies for seeds, seedlings, and reforestation services. Respond to relevant government Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
• Lead development and write compelling, original grant proposals that clearly articulate and align the company’s mission, impact, and needs. Manage the entire submission process to ensure timely and compliant delivery (usually on tight deadlines).
• Work with internal stakeholders to incorporate technical expertise and organizational voice into grant proposals, ensuring alignment with company goals.
• Oversee the full grant lifecycle, from proposal writing to grant closeout, ensuring compliance with all grant terms and conditions. Manage reporting requirements and submit budget and project narrative reports as needed.
• Maintain a detailed funding calendar to effectively track and manage grant deadlines, submissions, and follow-up activities.
• Identify external factors that contribute to successful submissions and stay informed about the decision-making processes used by grantors.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in grant writing, government procurement, or related fields.
• Proven track record in successfully developing, writing, and managing grant proposals across corporate, philanthropic, and government sectors.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical details into strong narratives.
• Demonstrate the ability of creating compelling content for a variety of audiences, including technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and work across diverse teams.
• Demonstrated knowledge and interest in natural capital, carbon markets, forestry and climate change
• Experience in budget development and financial management related to grant proposals.
• Strong research skills to identify future funding opportunities and understand technical grant requirements.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with a diverse set of stakeholders, in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in Corporate ESG, carbon markets, forestry/ag/hort or natural resource management sectors
• Knowledge of public procurement strategies and experience working with government agencies

$85,000 – $100,000 a year

The compensation package includes a base salary plus numerous benefits (see below).  As of September 2024, the geo-located base salary for this role falls within this band: $85,000 to $100,000 p.a. We’ll determine the final base salary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, skills level and residing location during the hiring process.

Mast Reforestation, Silvaseed & Cal Forest offer:

– Competitive salary

– Location-based compensation

– 80% health insurance coverage for Full-Time non-seasonal employees, including Medical, Dental & Vision insurance plans

– Voluntary insurance plans with competitive premium rates: Pet insurance, Life insurance, Accidents.  

– Company paid Short Term Disability insurance and Group Term Life insurance

– Company’s incentive stock options (ISO) for eligible employee groups

– Retirement saving plan: Sustainable 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with climate-focused investment options.

– Commuter Benefits in eligible cities

– 6 paid holidays.  Two company-wide closing weeks per year. 

– Flexible PTO for Salaried employees.  Generous PTO accrual for Hourly employees.

– Allowances for out-of-state employees

– Relocation support for out-of-state employees

Data Intelligence Analyst – Remote

by Irma Moore | Oct 2, 2024 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

The Enterprise Information Services (EIS) team at Cedars-Sinai understands that true clinical transformation and the optimization of a clinical information systems implementation is fueled through the alignment of the right people, processes, and technologies. Cedars-Sinai has once again solidified its position as a global healthcare technology leader, receiving top accolades in not one but two prestigious surveys.

Why work here?

Cedars-Sinai placed in the top 20 on Newsweek’s “World’s Best Smart Hospitals 2024” list, which highlights hospitals that have excelled in the utilization of electronic functionalities, telemedicine, digital imaging, artificial intelligence and robotics.

The organization’s Healthtech excellence was acknowledged again, this time by the esteemed “CHIME Digital Health Most Wired“ recognition program. Cedars-Sinai was assigned a Level 10—the most prestigious level of certification—among more than 300 surveyed healthcare organizations. Cedars-Sinai netted high scores across multiple verticals and particularly excelled in areas of infrastructure, interoperability, and population health innovation.

What you will be doing:

Data Intelligence Report Developer works with users throughout the organization in collecting requirements, designing, and developing organization-wide reports. Create and reports, ad hoc requests, dashboards, and work. Designs, tests, and implements reports and data extracts from enterprise database sources. Writes structured Query Language (SQL) queries against a sophisticated data models. Translate requests into the programming specifications as needed. Uses enterprise reporting tool across the organization. Provides ongoing support for production reporting environments. Ensure compliance with result reporting requirements by performing quality data audits and analysis.

• Triages intake of data requests and seek understanding of technical requirements.
• Uses SQL programming code to develop required reports.
• Responsible for the development and delivery lifecycle during the following phases:
• Requirement Assessment: Works with enterprise data intelligence analysts to analyze and understand business requirements.
• Development: Based on requirements, develops functionality by following internal development standards. Technical solution to include detailed design documentation, code, configuration, and other supporting technical documents. Incorporates end-user requests and requirements to develop enterprise reporting solutions.
• Testing: Performs unit, regression, connectivity and full end-to-end integration tests, when it applies; Supports quality insurance effort to gain user acceptance.
• Delivery: Works closely with inter-departmental and cross-departmental resources to migrate new or improved functionality from test to production. Provides effective communication across the team as appropriate. Follows change control standards and processes for release to production.

Qualifications

Experience Requirements:

Three (3) plus years’ experience with SQL and demonstrated ability with a range of query tools such as Oracle, SAS, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Microsoft SQL, Tableau, etc.

Hands on experience performing reporting analysis and developing custom reports.

Experience with patient care-oriented databases, hospital-based administrative database applications and data warehousing technology.

Experience in system analysis, user relations, and vendor interactions.

Knowledge of relation database technology and client-server applications.

Experience writing SQL statements and accessing relational database system.

Experience analyzing basic to moderately sophisticated Clarity report requests, Reporting Workbench and Radar build requests.

Demonstrated understanding of healthcare applications as well as the needs and priorities of patient care providers.

Technical proficiency in Reporting Workbench and Radar build. Able to teach sophisticated Reporting Workbench and Radar build concepts.

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related quantitative field. 

SQL Server certification preferred.

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Title : Data Intelligence Analyst –

Remote Department : EIS MNS Decision Support Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Job Category : Information Technology Job Specialty : Bus Intelligence/Reporting Overtime Status : EXEMPT Primary Shift : Dayshift Duration : 8 hour Base Pay : $85,820.80 – $137,321.60

Senior Technical Architect – Innovation

by Irma Moore | Oct 2, 2024 | Uncategorized

Description

Summary

As a Senior Technical Architect at IOG, you take ownership and are accountable for the technical decisions of a product. You are responsible for designing solutions (products, components, features, libraries, …) that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements driven by the needs of users of our products. 

To this aim, you must interact with the product managers and the stakeholders, provide feedback on the satisfiability of requirements, present various alternative solutions for satisfying the requirements and provide a critical and impartial analysis of the pros and cons of the alternatives. 

You must also provide technical leadership and oversight to the development teams and delegate architecture tasks effectively and responsibly to the teams to avoid both efficiency bottlenecks and architectural disagreements. You must be pragmatic about technical debt and willing to make difficult compromises in the architecture to deliver minimum viable products within reasonable amounts of time.

IOHK is a research and development, innovation-driven company. As a Technical Owner at IOG you will be responsible for ensuring all feature requests and the product roadmap are aligned with the system’s long-term stability, extendability, maintainability, and security while ensuring the development process is sustainable and efficient.

You will collaborate with the Product Owner, the technical leads, and our researchers to turn user needs into technical requirements and ensure that those are feasible under all technical constraints on the system. In addition, you will feed work items necessary to keep the system maintainable and stable into the roadmap and ensure that they are properly prioritized.

Working with cross-functional teams, you will observe and consult on their development process and team structure to keep it sustainable, efficient, and aligned with the product needs.

Duties

Teamwork and Methodologies

• Support agile software development practices
• Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the solution and explore alternatives.
• Participate and give technical advice in decisions related to work prioritization.
• Participate in iteration planning to decide how much of the highest priority work is reasonable to select for execution in a given iteration.
• Review acceptance criteria of the critical tasks assigned to developers
• Communicate technical details with scientists, researchers, and developers.
• Summarize technical details about proposed solutions to management and business decision-makers.
• Contribute to the work breakdown and allocation decisions to get the best out of team members.

Software Architecture

• Ensure that recommended software engineering principles are followed
• Enable a continuous delivery of features through appropriate architecture design and establish timeline and milestones
• Distinguish features and enablers and proactively recommend work on enablers to allow the future implementation of features
• Define subsystems and their interfaces, allocating clear responsibilities to subsystems
• Establish and raise awareness of critical non-functional requirements
• Document the architecture and technical solution decisions in a common source of truth location
• Ensure that our products do not depend on unstable and immature external libraries
• Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
• Select appropriate solutions to problems
• Be conscious of the costs of architectural decisions and take these costs into account when jointly making important decisions.
• Manage and evolve legacy solutions and integrate with legacy technology when appropriate.

Knowledge:

• Acquire a deep technical understanding of problems and solution spaces.
• Maintain a firm and updated grasp of CS and Engineering techniques.
• Review literature and learn new topics relevant to the problems that must be solved.
• Know the limitations of your knowledge and experience to know when to learn more or when to look for outside expertise.

Leadership:

• Support and encourage the software engineers.
• Provide technical guidance to software engineers.
• Recognize when training is worth the time and contribute to decisions on training.

Requirements

Key Competencies

• Ensure that software engineering principles are followed
• Define and document technical and architectural visions for products, libraries, or components
• Design technical solutions (features, libraries, components, …) for business requirements and objectively document how well the solutions satisfy the requirements
• Break down solutions into smaller tasks with clear acceptance criteria and a short completion time
• Mentor, influence and/or lead teams of software engineers (including line management duties)

Education / Experience 

• A Degree in Computer Science/Engineering
• A minimum of 5 years of industrial/commercial development
• A minimum of 3 years as technical architect
• A minimum of 3 years as leader of a software development team
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Experience working together with scientists, researchers and formal methods specialists
• Knowledge of selected programming languages (e.g. Haskell, Javascript, Rust, Scala)
• Proven aptitude in:
  • Writing and Oral Communication
  • Organization
  • Problem-solving

Benefits

• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO 

Senior Face Technical Designer

by Irma Moore | Oct 2, 2024 | Uncategorized

CONTRACT ROLE

Insomniac is looking for a Senior Face Technical Designer. In this role you will be responsible for authoring effective FACS shapes from scratch for human and non-human characters; collaborates in developing rigs to support high-fidelity animated facial performances; participates in facial research & development efforts. Expected to have an expert understanding of FACS and facial anatomy and cutting-edge approaches to facial technology.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Expert level understanding of FACS and facial anatomy for cutting edge application to facial animation technology
• Expert proficiency in sculpting FACS shapes using deformers and/or sculpting tools for human and non-human characters
• Expert understanding of facial skeletal and muscle anatomy;
• Collaborates with animation, character art, and engineering teams to produce high quality face rigs
• Authors rigging systems to augment or support blendshape-based facial rigs
• Authors high quality photorealistic facial rigs based on FACS using blendshapes
• Collaborates with Character Art, Animation, and Engineering teams to deliver the highest quality assets with animator/mocap friendly interfaces that run smoothly in engine 
• Contributes to automated tools and workflows for runtime optimization
• Contributes to tools for ingesting 3rd party facial rigs
• Processes and cleans 3D or 4D scan data from FACS sessions
• Keeps up with state-of-the-art approaches to facial rigging for photorealistic characters in film and games
• Has strong understanding of facial shape transfer techniques and ability to implement shape transfer pipelines
• Contributes to tools for authoring and editing facial rigs (python/pyqt/pyside)
• May be asked to direct actors through FACS during facial acquisitions
• May ingest and integrate facial assets from 3rd parties
• May be expected to maintain relationships and provide feedback to external vendors
• Other duties may be assigned

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At SIE, working with our partners, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location. 

Please note that the individual base pay range may vary based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

In addition, this role is eligible for benefit offerings that include medical, dental, and vision. Click here to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below, this is an hourly rate.

$66.83 – $100.29 USD