Sr. Consultant - Program Governance and Healthcare Transformation SME

Tria Federal is seeking a Senior Consultant – Program Governance & Healthcare Transformation SME to provide senior-level program governance, transformation, organizational effectiveness, and implementation support to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The SME will establish and improve governance structures, operating rhythms, decision-making frameworks, performance-management processes, stakeholder engagement models, program artifacts, and transformation roadmaps that enable execution of complex healthcare initiatives across multiple program offices and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Design and improve governance structures, decision rights, escalation paths, and operating rhythms.
• Develop governance frameworks, charters, decision logs, risk registers, action trackers, meeting structures, and executive reporting.
• Lead current-state and future-state operating model assessments.
• Support organizational redesign, process transformation, implementation planning, and operationalization.
• Facilitate senior-level governance meetings and cross-functional stakeholder forums.
• Synthesize complex operational information into executive-ready recommendations and decision-support materials.
• Establish performance-management frameworks and metrics.
• Develop transition plans, implementation roadmaps, readiness assessments, SOPs, stakeholder communication plans, and lessons-learned reports.
• Identify dependencies and risks across IEN programs and coordinate mitigation activities.
• Support healthcare implementation and operationalization activities.
• Support organizational transformation activities.
• Coordinate across program offices, VA stakeholders, and external partners.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years of program management, management consulting, healthcare transformation, organizational effectiveness, or related experience.
• Experience designing or managing governance structures for complex, multi-workstream programs.
• Demonstrated experience with executive-level stakeholder management.
• Strong program controls experience involving milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, actions, and deliverables.
• Experience facilitating executive governance meetings and cross-functional working groups.
• Experience developing operating models, process-improvement plans, transformation roadmaps, or implementation strategies.
• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
• PMP or equivalent program-management credential preferred.

Desired Qualifications:

• Federal healthcare experience.
• Healthcare operations.
• Agile/SAFe.
• Lean Six Sigma.
• Change management/Prosci.
• Power BI / Power Platform.
• Acquisition or contracts governance.