Senior Consultant, Child Support Enforcement Project Manager

Guidehouse Inc.; McLean (VA); Vor Ort; USD 95.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Guidehouse Inc. in the United States seeks an experienced Project Manager to drive federal child support enforcement modernization. You will lead day-to-day execution, coordinate with federal staff, state IV-D agencies, and technology partners, and guide program modernization across multiple workstreams.

The role emphasizes strategic direction, risk management, and client-facing leadership to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes.

Qualifikationen

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust.
• Five or more years of professional experience, including direct project management leadership of complex federal/state/human services initiatives.
• Experience coordinating across federal staff, state IV-D agencies, vendors, and internal teams.

Aufgaben

• Serve as Project Manager for child support modernization initiatives and lead day-to-day project execution.
• Coordinate with federal staff, state IV-D agencies, technology partners, and project teams.
• Provide strategic direction to modernization planning, implementation oversight, risk management, and long-term program effectiveness.
• Oversee risk, issue, and dependency management and track resolution.
• Lead planning and facilitation for interviews, workshops, and stakeholder engagements.
• Review executive briefs, dashboards, and portfolio analyses for client-ready deliverables.

Kenntnisse

Project management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Risk management

Ausbildung

Bachelor's Degree

Jobbeschreibung

Job Family : Strategy & Transformation Consulting Travel Required : Up to 10% Clearance Required : Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

As part of a multidisciplinary team, serve as the Project Manager for federal child support enforcement modernization support initiatives focused on child support technology modernization, program operations, certification readiness, and systems transformation. Lead day-to-day project execution, manage team activities and deliverables, coordinate with federal staff, state IV-D agencies, technology partners, and project teams, and provide strategic direction to support modernization planning, implementation oversight, risk management, and long-term program effectiveness.

Responsibilities may include:

• Provide project management leadership and oversight for child support enforcement modernization, program operations, and systems transformation support activities.
• Manage project workplans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, staffing assignments, and internal coordination to ensure timely, high-quality execution.
• Provide strategic direction across workstreams, helping the team translate federal and state priorities into actionable plans, decision points, and client-ready products.
• Oversee risk, issue, and dependency management, including identifying project risks, developing mitigation strategies, escalating concerns, and tracking resolution.
• Manage and provide direction to a multidisciplinary team supporting CSE modernization activities, including program, policy, technology, data, research, and communications workstreams.
• Serve as a primary client-facing point of coordination, maintaining strong relationships with federal staff, state IV-D agencies, technology partners, and internal leadership.
• Oversee support for the review and analysis of Advanced Planning Documents (APDs), feasibility studies, certification materials, modernization roadmaps, procurement strategies, and implementation plans.
• Guide development of modernization frameworks, playbooks, procurement guidance, reusable assets, knowledge management resources, and technical assistance products.
• Lead planning and facilitation for interviews, workshops, listening sessions, stakeholder engagement activities, and client meetings.
• Oversee analysis of modernization portfolios, project performance, certification readiness, financial data, governance structures, vendor performance, and implementation risks.
• Review and guide executive briefings, reports, strategic communications, presentations, decision memoranda, dashboards, portfolio analyses, and implementation support materials.
• Coordinate across data, technology, and program teams to identify modernization opportunities, lessons learned, leading practices, and cross-state trends.
• Support continuous improvement by monitoring project performance, strengthening internal processes, improving quality controls, and ensuring lessons learned inform future work.

What You Will Need:

Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

• Bachelors Degree
• FIVE (5) or more years of professional experience, including direct project management experience leading complex federal, state, or human services initiatives.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in human services, social work, public administration, business administration, information systems, project management, or a related field.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or other recognized project/program management certification.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects, teams, workplans, schedules, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, and competing priorities.
• Experience providing oversight, strategic direction, and quality control across multidisciplinary teams and complex workstreams.
• Experience managing client relationships, facilitating decision-making, preparing leadership communications, and coordinating across federal, state, vendor, and internal stakeholders.
• Direct experience supporting child support enforcement (IV-D) programs, state child support agencies, federal child support initiatives, or related human services programs.
• Strong understanding of the child support enforcement program, including IV-D program operations, policy considerations, federal-state roles, modernization drivers, and system certification context.
• Experience supporting child support technology modernization, system implementation, certification readiness, APD development or review, feasibility studies, procurement activities, or federal funding requests.
• Experience with governance, vendor oversight, project performance monitoring, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and implementation planning.
• Ability to translate complex program, policy, technical, financial, and operational concepts into actionable recommendations for federal and state stakeholders.
• Excellent organizatio