LRS Consulting Services is seeking an IV&V Project Oversight Consultant for an exciting opportunity with a client of ours in Topeka, KS. 

You'll serve as an independent set of eyes between an implementation team and state agency leadership — monitoring progress, surfacing risk, and delivering objective assessments directly to the Project Manager, Steering Committee, Project Sponsor, and IT oversight body on a monthly basis.
This is not a PM role or a QA role. You're the independent validator — you need enough technical and project credibility to assess what the implementation contractor is doing and call it straight.

What You'll Do

• Produce monthly IV&V status reports delivered simultaneously and independently to multiple stakeholders
• Conduct ongoing risk assessments across project management, technology, scope, budget, schedule, user involvement, organizational readiness, and business impact
• Monitor the design and development process closely enough to identify issues before they become problems
• Track schedule and resource allocation against baseline and flag variances
• Monitor project budget — both resource burn and expenditure — and document deviations from plan
• Maintain issues awareness beyond what the project team formally logs
• Summarize prior month IV&V activities and planned next-month activities in each report

What You Need

• Demonstrated IV&V experience on large-scale state or government IT projects — references required
• Familiarity with state project management methodologies
• Strong enough technical background to evaluate implementation decisions and development processes, not just schedule and budget
• Ability to operate with full independence from the implementation contractor
• Experience delivering to executive-level stakeholders and oversight bodies
• Excellent written communication — your monthly reports go directly to leadership with no filter

Nice to Have

• Prior work on projects >$20M
• PMP or equivalent certification

The base range for this contract position is $60.00 - $X100.00 per hour, depending on experience.
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