Benefits Administration Strategic Initiatives Advisor; Veterans Affairs

Responsibilities for this Position

Location: Any Location / Remote

Full Part/Time: Full time

Job Req: RQ212537

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other

Required:

NACI (T1)

Job Family: Business Development

Job Qualifications:

Skills: Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Direction, Strategic Initiative

Certifications: None

Experience: 5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship

Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT's Federal Health Team is hiring a Benefits Administration Strategic Initiatives Director to support associated programs and products. The Strategic Initiatives Director is responsible for aligning strategic directions for the implementation, configuration, development, and support services to a broad Veterans Affairs Benefits Administration (VBA) Modernization program. This position is a remote role but must be willing and able to travel up to 25% to customer and senior leadership meetings.

In this role you will collaborate with management, as well as client‑facing business, financial, operational staff, and associated IT groups. Provide support for the pursuit of new opportunities, as well as planning, acquisition, management, and implementation of systems and applications necessary to support the clinical, business, financial, and operational needs. Provide leadership, guidance and business re‑engineering recommendations for the development, acquisition, implementation, integration, and support of complex applications and system software.

• Drive strategic initiatives to ensure organization’s continued growth and profitability while creating and maintaining customer intimacy. Works with internal stakeholders to improve business operations, work with external sub‑contractors to ensure requirements are clearly defined a delivery is at the highest level
• Oversees collaboration of internal stakeholders to identify, examine and to convey the strategic value of partner prospects
• Provides strategic support, leadership and value to pursue new VBA opportunities
• Provides foresight for the development of strategic road maps for VBA opportunities and current projects by engaging sector management team through promoting working group level exchanges between the key executive leadership, partners and division level resources
• Identifies, develops and prioritizes opportunities for VBA systems
• Acts as a strategic liaison between internal and external stakeholders during operations, implementations and pursuit activities
• Provides high level collaborative interfaces with external consultants, industry associations and organizations to maintain awareness of industry, products and implementation standards
• Oversees portfolio reshaping activities as required
• Responsible for providing guidance, organizational roadmap, staffing alignment, shaping, and other activities typical of program pursuits or implementations
• Responsible for leading, managing and supporting Agency objectives/priorities by applying rigorous methodology that ensures systems are developed and/or implemented based on specific criteria. Incorporating standards for resiliency, user satisfaction, flexibility, reusability, scalability and performance.
• Ensure that proposals or deliverables on a program align with the agency's priorities and GDIT's processes
• Develop and maintain strong relationships in industry. Including close relationships with customers, partners, IT management, and staff (where appropriate) to provide cost effective systems that meet customer needs.
• Strong quantitative skills in financial analysis and business case development
• Provide consultation as appropriate with a benefits systems perspective.
• Develops, maintains, and supports policies and procedures regarding application development and data management.
• Sets management priorities, oversees all formalized project and strategic plans related to VBA systems.
• Establishes methodologies for the implementation and/or development of state‑of‑the‑art software systems to ensure systems meet quality, industry, and customer satisfaction standards.
• Establishes standards and guidelines to ensure…