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Department: Quality Standards & Performance
Job Description Business Process Improvement Senior Consultant
Under the general direction and supervision of the Vice President – Quality Standards and Performance,
- Executes the planning, implementation, monitoring and completion of process improvement projects against CMMI, ISO 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, EVM, and other related improvement methodologies as dictated by contracts.
- Provides best practices support to clients, including process development, training, implementation support, internal auditing, and preparation for certification.
- Helps implement business process improvement methodologies, including plans, procedures, and form development.
- Works with team members and a diverse client base primarily based in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area.
- Interfaces with the client on a regular, mutually agreed-upon basis to confirm expectations and delivers expected results.
- Helps manage QS&P coordination of tasks for team including capacity of team, audit activities, and group meetings.
- Performs peer reviews as needed to ensure quality of work product delivered to clients.
- Reports any issues to direct management.
- Travels up to 20% of the time.
- Handles confidential information.
Relationships:
- Internal:
- Interacts with the Vice President – Quality Standards and Performance, the Director of Software Engineering, the Director of Project Management Office, Business Development Managers (BDMs), Accounting and Human Resources departments, and a variety of staff at all levels.
- External:
- Communicates with staff of federal government agencies, customer organizations, subcontractors and a variety of vendors, including third-party registration, appraisal or accreditation entities.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Identifies business improvement opportunities, develops solutions, manages initiatives, and identifies resources and disciplines to execute the process.
- Applies business process improvement methods and tools to promote continuous improvement and to assist ITG’s customers in aligning and mobilizing every aspect of their operations and resources for their ultimate success.
- Leads clients’ CMMI activities and participates in gap analyses and SCAMPI appraisals.
- Coaches and mentors on the application of business process improvement methodology and tools in one-on-one and group settings to supplement and reinforce skills attained during training.
- Develops action plans, revisions, and reinforcement based upon audit results, and monitors execution of plans.
- Provides customers with guidance in implementing CMMI model to improve the quality of business processes to meet their business objectives or goals.
- Identifies any gaps that may exist relative to Best Practices and applicable ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 20000 and CMMI standards and assists customers in developing a risk mitigation strategy and roadmap to address those gaps in a planned, strategic, and cost-efficient manner.
- Provides final deliverables in the form of a comprehensive findings and recommendations report.
- Performs process audits and reviews, identifies process compliance issues, provides coaching to ensure compliance, tracks non-compliance to closure and facilitates lessons learned and process improvements.
- Conducts checks on regular intervals to measure the effectiveness of process implementation.
- Leads problem-solving activities to define problems, assess current state root causes, design and test solutions, and implement solutions leading to desired outcomes.
- Identifies opportunities for new sales growth to Business Development staff.
- Provides auditing, training, coaching and documentation writing to customers.
- Participates in internal and external audits and Appraisals as assigned.
- Assists in the development of ITG organizational training courses.
- Conducts internal ITG ISO 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, EVM and CMMI training courses.
- Participates in ISO and CMMI improvement meetings as required.
- Directs the set-up and coordination of process improvement projects.
- Helps in achieving repeatable performance of the company’s deliverables.
- Helps develop ITG standard process assets for consulting practice.
- Mentors team on CMMI and project management.
- Conducts peer reviews and quality checks of consultant work products, especially internal audits.
- Acts as POC for managing customer internal and external audit and appraisal activities and providing direction to team.
- Reports on team capacity and reviews planned vs actual commitments to help manage KPI requirements.
- Coordinates team meetings.
- Acts as back up as needed for the VP of QS&P.
Other Assigned Duties:
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, marketing, or technical field, or equivalent training and work experience
- Minimum of 8 years process improvement and consulting experience
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, presentation, verbal and writing communication skills
- Experience with CMMI Development, Services, and Acquisition models and face-to-face consulting with multiple clients dealing with CMMI model concepts and implementations
- Experience using Microsoft Office Products, including Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Visio
- Experience with presenting process improvement information to client organizations and writing and editing process improvement documents
- Experience with ISO processes and auditing procedures
- Lead Auditor certification in ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 20000, and/or Intro to CMMI DEV/SVC, or other management system standard highly desirable
- PMP certification highly desirable
- ITIL Foundations or higher certification desirable
- Information Security experience highly desirable
- Certified Scrum Master
Status: Exempt
Position Closed. This job ad no longer accept résumés for consideration.