Deputy Project Manager / Business & Governance Lead

Deputy Project Manager / Business & Governance Lead Position Overview Position Type: Part-Time Consultant / Engagement Leader Target Allocation: 10–12 hours/week baseline (Note: Workload scales up heavily during Deliverables 1, 4, 8, 9, 13, and 15, which focus on kickoff stabilization, data quality, governance setup, multi-agency onboarding, roadmap creation, and final project closeout). Location: Remote (U.S. Based) with periodic travel to Tallahassee, FL as required. Chameleon is seeking a Deputy Project Manager / Business & Governance Lead to support the execution of a high-visibility contract with the Florida Office of the Chief Inspector General (OCIG). In this role, you will manage day-to-day operations and lead stakeholder onboarding activities to transition a data analytics platform into an enterprise-ready Decision Intelligence Platform. This platform will monitor statewide transaction data, abnormal spending patterns, contract vulnerabilities, and fraud/waste/abuse risks across up to 35 state agencies. Because this is a high-visibility, firm-fixed-price (FFP) state government contract, you will maintain dual responsibility as a senior business analyst and assistant project manager, ensuring strict adherence to the project timeline and formal acceptance criteria. Principal Responsibilities Deputy Project Leadership: Provide comprehensive Deputy Project Manager coverage, stepping in for the Project Leader to handle schedule management, milestone tracking, and customer relations. Stakeholder Workshop Facilitation: Lead discovery sessions, requirements elicitation, and stakeholder workshops to translate statutory oversight needs into specific platform rules. Business Rule Traceability: Establish and maintain a rigorous traceability matrix that connects statutory rules from oversight mandates down to final platform configuration and user acceptance. Agency Onboarding Playbooks: Author and execute standardized onboarding playbooks, data-mapping templates, readiness checklists, and training procedures for an initial wave of 8–10 agency Inspector General offices. Governance Coordination: Define and coordinate user roles, role-based access control workflows, case-support needs, and data classification procedures with agency program staff. Executive Recommendations: Collaborate directly with the Project Leader to synthesize technical analytics findings into evidence-based executive recommendations, dashboards, and briefings. Knowledge Transfer & Readiness: Lead the user-side documentation for operational readiness reviews, standard operating procedures, and comprehensive knowledge-transfer packages. Tracker Management: Manage project infrastructure, maintaining meticulous records of risks, cross-agency dependencies, critical decisions, action items, and audit-ready test evidence. Required Qualifications Experience Baseline: 10+ years of technology project management, business systems analysis, or enterprise information systems experience. Leadership Credentials: PMP certification or a comparable advanced project management credential is required. Government Context: Proven experience delivering technology or data-driven projects for local, state, military, or federal government entities. Requirement Management: Exceptional facilitation skills with documented experience eliciting, structuring, and documenting complex business rules and data governance policies. Process Engineering: Strong background in workflow mapping, data ownership analysis, and modernizing legacy governance procedures. QA Validation: Direct experience developing user acceptance testing scripts, configuring test case repositories, and defining quantitative technical acceptance criteria. Communication Skill: Demonstrated success translating intricate technical findings, system architectures, or analytics models into high-level executive briefings and recommendations. Vetting & Location: Must be a U.S.-based citizen or resident. Must be able to successfully clear an FDLE Level II background screening (including fingerprinting) within 5 business days of contract award. Strong Preferences Prior experience working inside or directly consulting for a government financial, procurement, contract management, grant tracking, or formal audit/oversight agency. Proven track record navigating large, multi-agency, or multi-department government stakeholder environments. Hands-on experience developing formal data governance operating procedures, user lifecycle guidelines, or data classification standards. Experience supporting business intelligence dashboard design or reporting system modernization projects. Background creating reusable training materials, operator guides, or formal knowledge-transfer curriculum for government personnel. MANDATORY RESUME FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS The State of Florida strictly evaluates and verifies all named staff experience for this contract. Generic resumes that only list generic tech stacks or frameworks will be automatically rejected. To be considered for this role, your resume must explicitly detail the following metadata for your past contract positions: The Government Customer: Explicitly name the agency (Federal, State, Military, or Local). Program Scale & Complexity: Specify the dollar value of the program, the total stakeholder or team size you coordinated, and the exact project duration. Management Authority: Clearly state your personal level of accountability regarding budget, scheduling, requirements sign-off, or project coordination. Target Audience: Identify the specific executive, legislative, or agency decision-makers who received your business analysis findings or project recommendations. Measurable Results: Include quantifiable metrics of successful delivery, production deployment status, or formal system acceptances achieved under your guidance. “We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status” Texting Privacy Policy Message type: Informational; you will receive text messages regarding your application and potentially regarding interview scheduling. No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. Message frequency will vary depending on the application process.Msg & data rates may apply. OPT out at any time by texting "Stop".