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Writers

Words, words, words! Do you have a knack for putting them in the right order? Are you good with long form copy, say a 100-page proposal? If the answer is “yes” and “yes” get in touch. There may be no jobs listed right now but that can change quickly.

Creatives

Are you a talented graphic designer and/or content creator? Does applying your creativity to helping win projects and see them through excite you? If the answer is yes to both questions, we’d like to learn more about you. Even if there are currently no openings.

Researchers

Are you gifted when it comes to uncovering data and analyzing it to inform decisions about projects? We want to hear from you whether there is a matching job listed or not.

Project Managers

If you are highly skilled at coming up with solutions and executing them, and can you lead projects (negotiation, risk management, compliance etc.) we want to know about you. Even if we have no positions listed we are pitching and could need you soon.

Program & Project Management

We partner with our client’s leadership team and provide best-in-class management to initiate, plan, execute, and close key programs and projects.

Strategic program and project management
Grants management and capital sourcing
Project research
Training and development

Corporate and government diversity, equity and inclusion
Stakeholder engagement
Event planning

Let us work for you. Email us or call us at (212) 381-7488.

Compliance Services

We manage and implement all aspects of federal grant, workforce, DEI, construction, aviation, prevailing wage and small business compliance. We create customized programs to oversee Minority, Women and Local Business Contract Compliance through all stages of a client’s project. Our services include program design, implementation, management, reporting and pre and post construction analysis, and technology systems integration. We’ve worked on projects ranging from 1M to 19B

Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) / Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)
Women-owned Business Enterprise (WBE) / Small Business Compliance
Subcontractor pre qualification process
Commercially Useful Function (CUF) verification

Local community initiative program
Workforce – Section 3
Prevailing wages
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

Let us work for you. Email us or call us at (212) 381-7488.

Grants Management & Capital Sourcing

RFW has raised over 900M for our clients through fundraising, capital sourcing, and large-scale events.

Grant writing and proposal development fundraising events
Sourcing capital partners
Strategic negotiations and advocacy
Budget development

Let us work for you. Email us or call us at (212) 381-7488.

Technology System Integration

We create customized systems for data management, tracking, cleaning etc. across some of the nation’s largest projects. Our systems help keep projects running smoothly, efficiently and timely.

Data management, cleaning and housing
Design customized architecture or applications
Hardware integration
Package custom software and communications
Logistics management

Let us work for you. Email us or call us at (212) 381-7488.

PROJECT
Local Initiatives Support Corporation NY (LISC). Developers of Color Program

SERVICES
Project management, project design, business development, Minority and Women Business Enterprise (M/WBE), technical assistance, training, affordable housing development

SERVICE DATES
Spring 2021 – Present

LISC NY engaged R.F. Wilkins Consultants to conduct the program design and implementation of a training program that assists M/WBE residential and affordable housing developers to bid for city contracts. Our firm has been responsible for the program’s overall project management, curriculum design, outreach, and special event production since 2021. The program has been so successful that we have completed 4 cohorts and the program is in the works for a national roll out.

PROJECT
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s. John F. Kennedy International Airport Redevelopment

SERVICES
M/WBE, SDVOB, ACDBE Compliance, Project Management, Community Outreach, Stakeholder Engagement, Data Analysis, CUF compliance, Staff Augmentation, Software Systems Integration

SERVICE DATES
2019 – Present

R.F. Wilkins Consultants is one of two M/WBE compliance consultants contracted to represent the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for the John F. Kennedy Airport Redevelopment Project, a multi-year, $20 billion project with a 30% M/WBE utilization goal. Our compliance efforts include assisting in the development of a robust W/MBE Supplier Program Plan, working with various cross- agency teams and managers to define stakeholder engagement strategies, assisting with the overall design, development, launch and management of the Agency’s compliance initiative, supporting compliance technology development, sourcing professional service organization and the trades and facilitating CUF compliance. We also created the Agency’s first-of-its-kind dashboard to track M/WBE utilization, contract payment, and project goals.

PROJECT
Urban Strategies’ General Projects & 15 Year Capital Improvement Plan

SERVICES
R.F. Wilkins Consultants has provided consulting services for a multitude of projects including real estate development, transitional and affordable housing; grant writing, fundraising and capital sourcing, professional development, training; community outreach, stakeholder engagement.

SERVICE DATES
January 2011 – Present

From 2011 to date, R.F. Wilkins Consultants has partnered with Urban Strategies, Inc., a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization to provide a full suite of project management services to drive their overall development and organizational expansion needs. Through fundraising and grant proposal writing, we have raised millions of dollars in support of their social service programs, including but not limited to affordable and emergency housing programs, NYC Department of Homeless Services’ temporary and family shelter programs, NYC DYCD and SONYC after-school programs, case management and NYC Administration for Children’s Services’ social service programs. Through our fundraising efforts, we have raised over $20 million in project capital for the Organization.

Urban Strategies Management Corporation is the firm’s commercial development arm. To date, R.F. Wilkins Consultants has aided Urban Strategies, Inc. in facilitating stakeholder outreach and M/WBE compliance surrounding the Year 15 capital improvements project. The project has supported improvements for more than 500 NYC Housing Preservation and Development housing units.

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PROJECT
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield JFK TERMINAL 8 – Compliance Consultant

SERVICES
Compliance (project management, M/WBE, SDVOB, ACDBE Compliance business development, community outreach, stakeholder engagement, and data analysis, CUF compliance) development, Minority and Women Business Enterprise (M/ WBE), technical assistance, training, affordable housing development

SERVICE DATES
January 2023 – January 2025

R. F. Wilkins Consultants is contracted with the Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey to work at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 8 Concessions. From January 2023 to January 2025, RFW Consultants will partner with Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield to provide a comprehensive suite of compliance management and engagement services across JFK Terminal 8. As part of the Design Build Team, RFW will be responsible for ensuring MWBE, ACDBE, Local and SDVOB participation goals are met across buildout of concessions at JFK. The aim of both RFW and URW is to meet diverse goals across the concessions program at JFK Airport. This program will be inclusive of compliance, engagement, and sourcing efforts. ACDBE’s will be sourced and connected to tap into existing bids, opportunities etc., local workforce will be connected to the program, government partners will be engaged, all compliance and data collection will be managed, and workforce compliance and engagement will be implemented.

PROJECT
Hunt’s Point Produce Market

CLIENT
New York Economic Development Corporation

SERVICES
Revitalization project of the Hunt’s Point Terminal Produce Market

SERVICE DATES
2023 – Present

R.F. Wilkins Consultants is currently collaborating with Hudson Meridien Construction Group for the Hunt’s Point Produce Market / New York Economic Development Corporation Project. In 2023, the project was awarded significant federal grant funding to ensure that upgrades and improvements are made to its facilities. RFW will be responsible for grant compliance across the entire project.

PROJECT
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey/Jacobs Consulting Systems Airline Data Entry Portal (ADEP)

SERVICES
R.F. Wilkins Consultants is responsible for systems development, report development, data analysis, and data cleaning

SERVICE DATES
2021 – Present 

R.F. Wilkins Consultants in partnership with Jacobs Consulting supports the data analysis and reporting of FAA cargo activity within the New York and New Jersey airports (John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia International Airport, New York Stewart International Airport, and Teterboro Airport). Our data analysis efforts provide the building blocks for the Port Authority’s annual Airport Traffic Report written by RFW’s business analysis team.

Non-profits

There are more than 1.5 million non-profits in the U.S and about 10 million throughout the world. It takes serious energy to make a difference every day. Let’s partner. We’ll be the advocates to drive your projects forward, your fundraising engine, and support for your compliance team.  

Government agencies

Oversight and administration is tough on its own. It gets even tougher when structuring efforts to support unique initiatives. We’ll partner with you to develop, streamline, source, track, train and improve your MWBE, logistical, Public private partnerships and other initiatives.

Case study

Technology System Integrations, Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Clean Up

Project:  
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey/Jacobs Consulting Systems Airline Data Entry Portal (ADEP)

Services: 
R.F. Wilkins Consultants is responsible for systems development, report development, data analysis, and data cleaning

Service Dates:
2021 – Present 

R.F. Wilkins Consultants in partnership with Jacobs Consulting supports the data analysis and reporting of FAA cargo activity within the New York and New Jersey airports (John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia International Airport, New York Stewart International Airport, and Teterboro Airport). Our data analysis efforts provide the building blocks for the Port Authority’s annual Airport Traffic Report written by RFW’s business analysis team.

Case study

General Consulting Services and
Fundraising for Non-Profit Organizations

Project:
Urban Strategies’ General Projects & 15 Year Capital Improvement Plan

Services:
R.F. Wilkins Consultants has provided consulting services for a multitude of projects including real estate development, transitional and affordable housing; grant writing, fundraising and capital sourcing, professional development, training; community outreach, stakeholder engagement.

Service Dates:
January 2011 – Present

From 2011 to date, R.F. Wilkins Consultants has partnered with Urban Strategies, Inc., a Brooklyn-based non-profit, organization to provide a full suite of project management services to drive their overall development and organizational expansion needs. Through fundraising and grant proposal writing, we have raised millions of dollars in support of their social service programs, including but not limited to affordable and emergency housing programs, NYC Department of Homeless Services’ temporary and family shelter programs, NYC DYCD and SONYC after-school programs, case management and NYC Administration for Children’s Services’ social service programs. Through our fundraising efforts, we have raised over $20 million in project capital for the Organization.

Urban Strategies Management Corporation is the firm’s commercial development arm. To date, R.F. Wilkins Consultants has aided Urban Strategies in facilitating stakeholder outreach and M/WBE compliance surrounding the Year 15 capital improvements project. The project has supported improvements for more than 500 NYC Housing Preservation and Development housing units.

Case study

Project Management, Aviation, M/WBE Compliance, Aviation Concessions, Community Outreach

Project
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield JFK TERMINAL 8 – COMPLIANCE CONSULTANT

Services 
Compliance (project management, M/WBE, SDVOB, ACDBE Compliance business development, community outreach, stakeholder engagement, and data analysis, CUF compliance)

Service Dates
January 2023- January 2025 

R. F. Wilkins Consultants is contracted with the Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey to work at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 8 Concessions. From January 2023 to January 2025, RFW Consultants will partner with Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield to provide a comprehensive suite of compliance management and engagement services across JFK Terminal 8. As part of the Design Build Team, RFW will be responsible for ensuring MWBE, ACDBE, Local and SDVOB participation goals are met across buildout of concessions at JFK. The aim of both RFW and URW is to meet diverse goals across the concessions program at JFK Airport. This program will be inclusive of compliance, engagement, and sourcing efforts. ACDBE’s will be sourced and connected to tap into existing bids, opportunities etc., local workforce will be connected to the program, government partners will be engaged, all compliance and data collection will be managed, and workforce compliance and engagement will be implemented. 

Private firms

We apply the triple bottom line principle, often referred to as the three “P’s”: people, planet, and prosperity. Our project management team will partner with you to get a plan in place and manage logistics, tackling big challenges with consideration to social wellness, environmental health, diversity equity and inclusion and your project’s financial success and resilience.

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Program & Project Management

Compliance Services

Grants Management & Capital Sourcing

Technology System Integration

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Non-profits

Government agencies

Technology System Integrations, Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Clean Up

General Consulting Services and
Fundraising for Non-Profit Organizations

Project Management, Aviation, M/WBE Compliance, Aviation Concessions, Community Outreach

Private firms

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