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ProSidian is a management and operations consulting firm with a reputation for its strong national practice spanning six solution areas including Risk Management, Energy & Sustainability, Compliance, Business Process, IT Effectiveness, and Talent Management.  We help clients improve their operations.   

Linking strategy to execution, ProSidian assists client leaders in maximizing company return on investment capital through design and execution of operations core to delivering value to customers.  Visit www.ProSidian.com or follow the company on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ProSidian for more information.

ProSidian Seeks a Independent Verification And Validation (IV&V) Consultant in CONUS/OCONUS - Olympia, WA to support an engagement for an Agency dedicated to the safety, health and security of 2.5 million workers.  Key functions include:  Protecting the health and safety of workers | Ensuring medical care and financial help for injured workers | Protecting workers' wages, hours, breaks and more | Protecting the public from unsafe work and economic hardship

The ProSidian Team works to provide expert level Information Technology (IT) Quality Assurance (QA) consulting services supporting a full cross-agency "business transformation" initiatives intended to achieve the mission of keeping citizens in the state safe and working. The business transformation (BT) calls for modernizing the agency's extensive technology infrastructure and corresponding business processes over several years. The client is starting with people and processes - ensuring the best way to do business and collectively understand business priorities and customers' expectations. Then, they will invest in new technology to support those process improvements and achieve stated goals and objectives.

Navigating the agency's technology maze is challenging for its employees. It complicates the training process and makes it difficult for them to deliver high-quality, effective service to their customers. Many applications are independent and don't communicate information between each other. Over the next several years, L&I will modernize technology across the Dept., which will take place in phases. Independent Verification And Validation (IV&V) Consultant Candidates shall work to support requirements for Program Support and Independent Verification And Validation (IV&V) Consultant will lead/oversee the Verification and Validation activities in alignment with the Client Organizations requirements, policies, guidelines including but not limited to the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Policy 132. 

As such, it is expected that the IV&V Consultant be knowledgeable and practiced in all aspects of Information Technology system life cycle project management processes as defined in the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK).  Duties would include reviewing, monitoring, and observing product development/implementation/customizations (such as a software), project activities Statement Of Work completion, or service-level agreement (SLA).  Additionally, they would be responsible for supporting the written assessment reports developed by the team and overseeing the recommendations developed to ensure they provide early warning to our clients of potential risks; including, actionable input and recommendations that can be tracked to completion.

• For each IV&V Consultant Services Engagement, The ProSidian Team will perform the following primary duties:
• Attend required meetings with the project steering committee(s), agency leadership, project teams (and, if applicable, project staff), and other stakeholders as required.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with project staff and customers to solve complex issues.
• Develop and deliver anomaly reports reviewing specific processes, work products, deliverables, or other project attributes offering an assessment of their soundness, appropriateness, and ability to contribute to project success.
• Develop and deliver comprehensive periodic assessment reports containing results of oversight tasks and recommendations for improvement.
• Duties include assessing the quality and compliance with industry accepted practices of the project's processes, work products, and deliverables.
• Further responsibilities include tracking the response to recommendations made in the reports to ensure the system integrator and/or the client are addressing the risks in order to ensure successful outcomes.
• Help document accomplishments and key Deliverables and meet regularly with project teams, as needed, upon intervals based upon current project activities.
• Lead/oversee/support IV&V Methodology development and refinement in designing the right mixture of manual and automation tests to deliver quality effectively on time and budget to monitor progress against schedule (status and stage of completion), costs, requirements, and project Deliverables in compliance for risk indicators.
• lead/oversee/support Verification And Validation reviews and assessments of client and vendor activities, work products, and deliverables that includes identification of potential risks and recommendations for mitigation.
• Make specific actionable recommendations to address any anomalies or findings reported.
• Participate on or lead a team in review and assessment of the methodologies, processes, plans, tasks, work products, and deliverables produced by a system integration vendor or client implementation team and provide recommendations for improving quality and maximizing business value realization.
• Participate on, or leads a team, conducting oversight and assessment activities for large-scale software development projects.
• Provide IV&V Consultant  services during the specific timeframe (e.g., procurement development through solution implementation and Go-Live of the initial project phase, project start-up through completion of a key critical event, etc.) and as defined under any authorized Statement of Work (SOW).
• Support the client management and stakeholders to plan for and address risks and issues as they occur, in an effort to ensure that the project remains on schedule and within budget.
• The IV&V Consultant interacts with multiple technical and business stakeholders and supports the client in assuring the successful outcome of the systems development / implementation life cycle.

The Independent Verification And Validation (IV&V) Consultant shall have consecutive employment in a position with comparable responsibilities within the past five (5) years, Must be able to use a computer to communicate via email; and proficient in Microsoft Office Products (Word/Excel/Power point) and related tools and technology required for the position. 

Work products shall be thorough, accurate, appropriately documented, and comply with established criteria. The candidate shall ensure that duties are performed in a competent and professional manner that meets milestones/delivery schedules as outlined.  Required Qualifications And Experience:

• The IV&V Consultant must be knowledgeable and practiced in all aspects of information technology system development life-cycle (SDLC) processes.
• The successful candidate has demonstrated their ability to deliver client business value as an IV&V Consultant by presenting findings and issues to technical and business stakeholders in a professional manner based on the facts through a data driven approach and without bias.
• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Self-Driven - actively looks for ways to contribute including testing code for large scale/availability / resiliency
• Minimum of five (5) years providing IV&V services for a large scale (multi-million dollar) state or government agency IT projects.
• Demonstrates the highest degree of integrity.
• At least five (5) years' experience in two or more of the following specializations: a) Business requirements and business flow development and facilitation | b) System / IT infrastructure security | c) Legacy system languages (e.g., COBOL) | d) Current system languages (e.g., JAVA, .NET) | e) System/User test management and execution | f) System architecture design | g) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) | h) Database design and development
• At least five (5) years IV&V experience on large, complex software development and systems implementation projects applying Client Organizations requirements, policies, guidelines including but not limited to the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Policy 132
• Ability to prepare high quality formal written documentation addressing complex technical concepts for a non-technical audience.
• A Project Management Professional (PMP) certification with Project Management Institute (PMI) Preferred
• A combination of prior QA or PM experience totaling five (5) or more years providing services on information technology (IT) projects of similar or greater size, risk, and complexity when compared to the project being undertaken.
• A Bachelor's degree in computer science or five (5) equivalent work experience

TRAVEL:  Travel as coordinated with the technical point of contact and approved in writing by the Contracting Officer in advance, is allowed, in accordance with Federal Travel Regulations.  LOCATION:  Work shall be conducted at the CONUS/OCONUS - Olympia, WA

• U.S.  Citizenship Required
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Products (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, & Adobe)

As a condition of employment, all employees are required to fulfill all requirements of the roles for which they are employed; establish, manage, pursue, and fulfill annual goals and objectives with at least three (3) Goals for each of the firms Eight Prosidian Global Competencies [1 - Personal Effectiveness | 2 - Continuous Learning | 3 - Leadership | 4 - Client Service | 5 - Business Management | 6 - Business Development | 7 - Technical Expertise | 8 - Innovation & Knowledge Sharing (Thought Leadership)]; and to support all business development and other efforts on behalf of ProSidian Consulting.  

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Teamwork - ability to foster teamwork collaboratively as a participant, and effectively as a team leader
• Leadership - ability to guide and lead colleagues on projects and initiatives
• Business Acumen - understanding and insight into how organizations perform, including business processes, data, systems, and people
• Communication - ability to effectively communicate to stakeholders of all levels orally and in writing
• Motivation - persistent in pursuit of quality and optimal client and company solutions
• Agility - ability to quickly understand and transition between different projects, concepts, initiatives, or work streams
• Judgment - exercises prudence and insight in decision-making process while mindful of other stakeholders and long-term ramifications
• Organization - ability to manage projects and activity, and prioritize tasks

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OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Business Tools -  understanding and proficiency with business tools and technology, including Microsoft Office. The ideal candidate is advanced with Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word, and proficient with Adobe Acrobat, data analytic tools, and Visio with the ability to quickly learn other tools as necessary.
• Business Tools - understanding and proficiency with business tools and technology, including Microsoft Office. The ideal candidate is advanced with Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word, and proficient with Adobe Acrobat, data analytic tools, and Visio with the ability to quickly learn other tools as necessary.
• Commitment - to work with smart, interesting people with diverse backgrounds to solve the biggest challenges across private, public and social sectors
• Curiosity - the ideal candidate exhibits an inquisitive nature and the ability to question the status quo among a community of people they enjoy and teams that work well together
• Humility - exhibits grace in success and failure while doing meaningful work where skills have impact and make a difference
• Willingness - to constantly learn, share, and grow and to view the world as their classroom

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BENEFITS AND HIGHLIGHTS

ProSidian Employee Benefits and Highlights: Your good health and well-being are important to ProSidian Consulting. At ProSidian, we invest in our employees to help them stay healthy and achieve work-life balance. That's why we are also pleased to offer the Employee Benefits Program, designed to promote your health and personal welfare. Our growing list of benefits currently include the following for Full Time Employees:

• Competitive Compensation: Pay range begins in the competitive ranges with Group Health Benefits, Pre-tax Employee Benefits, and Performance Incentives. For medical and dental benefits, the Company contributes a fixed dollar amount each month towards the plan you elect. Contributions are deducted on a Pre-tax basis.
• Group Medical Health Insurance Benefits: ProSidian partners with BC/BS, to offer a range of medical plans, including high-deductible health plans or PPOs. ||| Group Dental Health Insurance Benefits: ProSidian dental carriers - Delta, Aetna, Guardian, and MetLife.