Program Manager � Advisory Services

Visionary Integration Professionals LLC; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking experienced IT project managers to drive enterprise-level modernization efforts. This role, based in Little Rock, AR, includes managing fraud detection teams, conducting comprehensive stakeholder assessments, and developing executive roadmaps. Candidates should have significant public sector experience, particularly in enterprise IT project management, and be adept at presenting findings. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential for success in this position.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of IT portfolio and project management experience in the public sector.
• Experience leading enterprise-level assessment, roadmap development, and recommendations.
• Hands-on experience with fraud detection best practices and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a team focused on fraud detections and payment processing.
• Work with state leadership on IT improvements.
• Develop and maintain project schedules and assessments.

Skills

Enterprise modernization assessments

Stakeholder management

Cloud-based COTS solutions

Project management

Fraud detection technologies

Executive presentations

Job description

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Visionary Integration Professionals (VIP) provides industry-leading management consulting, system integration, and technology deployment solutions. VIP helps its clients strengthen mission outcomes by combining deep industry specialization, agility to adapt as needed, and an unwavering commitment to client satisfaction. VIP brings expertise in how to deploy systems that align people, processes, and technology to accelerate strategic change and to deliver business results in partnership with its clients. Since 1996, VIP has worked with over 1,200 public sector and commercial clients. For more information, visit https://trustvip.com .

Join VIP: A strategic approach to accelerate your career! This role will be onsite in Little Rock, AR.

Job functions

• Deliver a team of experts that have a focus on program related fraud detections and payment processing related to IT solutions and operations.
• Work directly with state level leadership to assess and implement enterprise IT improvements.
• Schedule management, deliverable quality assurance, and integrated project management.
• Implement enterprise project management office organizations and defining/following the various needed project management plans.
• Develop and maintain the Master Project Schedule to include tasks, duration, effort, dependencies, and assigned resources.
• Develop the approach for completing an as-is/to-be/gap analysis which has a primary focus on cost savings and long-term total cost of ownership.
• Develop executive level presentations that focus on highlighting key areas of improvement and escalation providing clear solution focused recommendations.
• Develop materials for and coordinate the executive level roadmaps, presentations and meetings that highlight gaps, best practices and technologies that will help modernization and improve IT organizations.
• Develop enterprise standard for scheduling, performance monitoring and leveraging industry standard technologies to provide real time performance updates on the entire portfolio.
• Complete discovery and stakeholder analysis sessions with a clear objective and focus.
• Develop and provide presentations, status, and briefings on all aspects of the project health including scope, schedule, cost, budget, issues, and risks.

Qualifications

• Strong experience developing enterprise level modernization and consolidation assessments that resulted in efficiencies and cost savings.
• Experience completing and executing assessments that focus on application architecture, data consolidation, staffing, hardware/infrastructure, operations/maintenance, and statewide total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Experience defining and implementing an enterprise level PMO that can be used for a portfolio of IT projects within an organization.
• Experience conducting a comprehensive current state analysis of a large-scale enterprise IT environment (which includes assessing system workflows, review current controls, defining benchmark criteria and assessing the current monitoring practices).
• Experience developing and maintaining an application and skills inventory for IT organizations that clearly defines core and supplemental technology and people to implement savings for an IT organization.
• Experience developing executive level presentations, roadmaps and recommendations that use an industry standard set of metrics to measure current enterprise IT technologies, resources, and operations.
• Hands on experience with fraud detection best practices and technologies (which includes implementing proven technology solutions that meet state and private sector best practices).
• Experience developing comprehensive enterprise IT roadmaps that defining governance structures, total cost of ownership, as-is/to-be/gap analysis, escalation and focuses on staying agile and flexible while executing pre-defined solutions.
• Experience leading and facilitating stakeholder communication strategies and developing comprehensive stakeholder management plans by leading stakeholder workshops, interviews, and discovery analysis with stakeholders from all levels within the organization.
• Has the personality to lead and manage a team through the completion of assessment of enterprise systems that focus on the fraud and payment processing components of a solution.

Mandatory Experience

• 6+ years of verifiable experience within the last 10 years of IT portfolio and project management experience in the public sector.
• 5+ years of verifiable experience within the last 10 years managing enterprise level projects and performing project support activities.
• 3+ years of verifiable experience within the last 10 years conducting stakeholder and IT operational assessments for enterprise level organizations.
• 3+ years of verifiable experience within the last 10 years implementing cloud-based COTS solutions in the public sector using latest technologies and tools.
• 2+ years of verifiable experience within the last 5 years of conducting enterprise level assessment, roadmap development and providing executive level recommendations/findings presentations.
• 3+ years of verifiable experience within the last 5 years of managing IT projects with a average project team of over 20 members (consisting of both internal and client staff) and average one time implementation budget of $2.5M.
• 1+ years of verifiable experience within the last 5 years performing design and implementation of fraud and payment processing technologies.
• 1+ years of verifiable experience within the last 5 years performing advisory consulting services for a public sector client.

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

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