Remote Cost & Pricing Consultant - Budget & Excel Expert

HealthX Partners; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 55,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

HealthX Partners is seeking an external consultant to provide on-call "help-desk" advisory services to its Cost and Pricing (C&P) function. The consultant will offer specialist expertise in cost and pricing, budget development, and budget review on an as-requested basis, supplementing internal capacity during periods of high proposal volume.

The consultant will deliver services to staff across the HealthX Partners network through the C&P team.

Qualifications

• Experience with cost and pricing for government and NGO funders.
• Budgeting for diverse grant and contract types.
• Proficiency in MS Office.
• Advanced Excel skills (PivotTables, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS).
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication.
• Flexibility to adjust priorities.

Responsibilities

• Help-desk responses to cost and pricing queries.
• Budget and budget narrative reviews with written feedback.
• Cost proposal support and budget development guidance.
• Knowledge transfer to strengthen capacity in budgeting and cost estimation.
• Capacity strengthening through training and advisory interactions.
• Excel troubleshooting, formula errors, and template improvements.
• Written review comments on budgets and narratives; adhere to turnaround times.
• Monthly progress report on help-desk tickets and tool revisions.

Skills

MS Office proficiency

Excellent communication

Flexibility

Consulting experience

Tools

MS Excel

Pivot Tables

XLOOKUP

Job description

HealthX Partners is seeking an external consultant to provide on-call "help-desk" advisory services to its Cost and Pricing (C&P) function. The consultant will offer specialist expertise in cost and pricing, budget development, and budget review on an as-requested basis, supplementing internal capacity during periods of high proposal volume.

The consultant will deliver services to staff across the HealthX Partners network through the C&P team.