Program Assurance and IV&V Lead

at  InfoTech Research Group

WHO WE ARE

Info-Tech is one of the world’s fastest-growing IT research and advisory companies, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals. Our Consulting Practice is an extension of our Research Organization and we’re growing quickly! We’re a practice of highly analytical and creative thinkers, seeking to solve our clients’ most challenging problems with lasting solutions that deliver measurable client success.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

As a Program Assurance and IV&V Lead, you will be a key member of our growing team, leading consulting engagements and partnering with large (>$5 million) enterprise program teams to:

• Evaluate the readiness of the organization to start the program,
• Discover, articulate, and document program risks,
• Evaluate their project delivery timelines, project delivery practices, and providing recommendations for improvement, and
• Improve the benefit realization of implemented systems.

You will play a role in developing and presenting proposals, assisting in all areas of project management. You’ll also work towards growing our practice by securing additional project activities, driving proposal completion, and developing junior team members. This is a role for someone who thrives in working in a dynamic, collaborative, fast growing business with tight timelines and autonomy.
Self-starters with career advancement goals should be particularly interested in this opportunity.

KEY ACTIVITIES / TASKS

• Project Delivery
• Deliver small-to-mid sized client engagements within Info-Tech’s Consulting practice, specifically centered around Program Assurance Reviews for enterprise scale implementations.
• Manage delivery of consulting projects, including but not limited to developing the project plan and schedule, understanding client needs and goals, designing and executing the project plan to achieve outcomes, crafting deliverables, and actively identifying additional opportunities.
• Guide other Sr. Consultants/Consultants on the consulting team’s deliverables and, where needed, create compelling documents in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word to demonstrate solutions and strategies for our clients.
• Assess & monitor large scale development projects across multiple components.
• Delivers best-practice recommendations to improve ongoing project delivery.
• Performs project reviews and assess plan to project performance.
• Builds and maintains client relationships with C-Suite executives.
• Business Development
• Partner with the Info-Tech business development leads and senior members of the consulting team to understand client needs and develop proposals and statements of work.
• Play a role in business development activities including new business opportunities, qualifications, proposal development and client presentations.
• Identify opportunities to provide additional advisory services, workshop, consulting engagements and services to our clients.
• Practice Development
• Work closely with the consulting practice leaders on strategic planning and go-to-market activities for Info-Tech’s Consulting division.
• Make best-practice recommendations to improve ongoing practice and project delivery.
• Mentor and Develop consulting team members by transferring skills and knowledge and proposing learning and development activities.
• Client Workshop Facilitation
• Work with clients in person or virtually to properly scope and formalize the objectives, agenda, deliverables, and overall workshop effort in advance of online or onsite delivery.
• Lead the delivery of four-day workshops, online or onsite, based on Info-Tech’s Best Practice Methodology Blueprints.
• Work with client cross-functional teams to define the scope and outcomes of their IT initiatives / projects, perform capability maturity assessments and gap analyses, and identify member improvement opportunities/recommendations.