Work onsite in Washington DC Tues, Wed, Thurs and remote on Mon & Fri.
Seeking a temporary Platform Evaluation & Implementation Lead to support knowledge management system (Insights Hub) and strengthen its generative AI and platform capabilities.
This role spans two distinct but connected phases:
• Pre-decision platform evaluation, including structured collection of stakeholder feedback to inform leadership decisions; and any participation in any testing and analysis required.
• Post-decision planning and execution, supporting implementation readiness, migration planning, testing, validation, and change management.
This is a senior, hands-on role for an experienced strategic partner who can lead through ambiguity, apply agile principles, and contribute directly to execution—not just coordinate work.
Key Responsibilities
A. Pre-Decision Platform Evaluation & Sandbox Testing
• Support the definition and operationalization success criteria and evaluative metrics (e.g., usability, accuracy, relevancy, completeness, recency, efficiency).
• Support collection, synthesization, and analyzation of testing feedback and insights.
• Support preparation of decision-ready summaries and recommendations for leadership and advisory stakeholders.
B. Planning & Program Management
• Partner with Research leadership to inform overall scope, sequencing, and decision framing for the Insights Hub initiative.
• Support delivery of actionable project plan with milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Manage the integrated schedule from evaluation through execution, keeping the team on track and surfacing risks early.
• Apply agile principles to adapt plans as new information, constraints, or opportunities emerge.
C. Implementation Readiness, Migration Planning, Testing & Validation (Post-Decision)
• Support planning and coordination required to stand up a selected system or evolve the existing platform, including:
o Implementation planning and workflow design
o Data migration planning and execution support
o Testing, validation, and readiness checkpoints
o Partner with technical and business stakeholders to ensure the solution meets functional, governance, and operational requirements.
o Help translate evaluation findings into implementation priorities and sequencing.
D. Change Management & Communications
• Craft clear, audience-appropriate communications throughout both phases (evaluation and post-decision), including updates, guidance, and decision materials.
• Provide change-management support to help stakeholders understand what’s changing, why it matters, and how to engage with new systems or workflows.
• Anticipate adoption challenges and proactively address them through communication, training, and process adjustments.
Qualifications & Experience
Required
• Balance strategic thinking with a willingness to roll up sleeves and produce deliverables.
• Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives involving platform evaluation, system implementation, or both.
• Demonstrated expertise in:
o Project management and agile delivery
o Platform or vendor evaluation and comparison
o Sandbox or user testing design and execution
o Testing and validation
o Change management and communications
o Data migration or implementation readiness planning
• Strong communication and synthesis skills, with experience creating executive-ready materials.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and helping teams move from exploration to decision.
Preferred
• Experience in research, insights, knowledge management, analytics, or data-driven environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise governance, stakeholder decision-making, and cross-team coordination.
For consideration, please submit your resume as a MS Word attachment to careers@consortiuminc.com
The Consortium
"Combining Talent with Technology"
www.consortiuminc.com
The Consortium is a staffing and professional services organization focused on the Information Technology industry. Our experience and structure allow us to provide our undivided attention to our client’s business challenges and resource needs while providing the best career guidance and opportunities to our employees and consultants. Our goal and mission is to provide cost effective solutions while allowing our clients the time to focus on projects and deliverables and not sorting through stacks of unqualified resumes.
The Consortium’s business practices, decades of knowledge, and extensive industry experience enable us to provide talented highly skilled people who make a significant contribution to our customer’s objectives in a very short period of time. The Consortium is managed by four partners averaging over 17 years experience in information technology recruiting and professional services management. The Consortium’s agile and responsive team is capable of quickly identifying and screening properly qualified people for all technical skill sets saving our clients valuable time when reviewing candidates.
We offer a wide array of services including:
Contingency Permanent Placement- HeadHunting
We identify, evaluate and introduce employees for your permanent staff. We earn our fee when the individual becomes your employee and remains on your payroll until the guarantee period expires.
Temporary To Permanent
We identify the individual; perform an evaluation; introduce the applicant and you make the selection. We will put the person on our payroll for a defined period of time after which you make her/him a permanent member of your staff. The specific terms will be negotiated on a case by case basis which may include no additional fee or a reduced fee depending on the initial terms. The advantage of this approach allows you to evaluate the individual on a daily basis before deciding to “permanentize” her/him and, to spread your costs out over an extended period.
Staff Augmentation
We will provide you a contractor for a temporary period of time. This approach is implemented when the client: 1. needs people to complete a project and has no anticipated need after completion; 2. does not have a permanent “head count” budget; or 3. when the client has been unable to identify an individual with a required expertise on an expeditious basis. During the term of the assignment, should the client wish to permanently employ the contractor, The Consortium will be pleased to negotiate terms amenable to the client.
Retained Search
Retained searches are entered into when the client desires fully focused recruitment of a key individual. This arrangement requires that The Consortium use its full resources including its network of friends of the company, sourcing and researching. The Consortium commits to a one hundred percent effort on behalf of the retainer client only and guarantees that applicants identified for this undertaking will not be referred to other clients until a release is granted. The Consortium, after identifying candidates, will have an appropriate Advisory Board member assist in evaluation. A resume, references and a Consortium profile will be provided to the client prior to interview and The Consortium personnel will remain intimately involved throughout the entire process.