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.