{"id":4285469,"url":"https://alion.io/job/guidehouse-associate-director-enterprise-risk-strategic-programs","title":"Associate Director, Enterprise Risk & Strategic Programs","company":{"id":4179,"name":"Guidehouse","domain":"guidehouse.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/guidehouse","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":142,"ghost_share":0.007,"stale_share":0.761,"repost_share":0.028,"time_to_fill_p50_days":29,"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"}},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Tysons, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":130000,"max":216000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":216000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Power BI","optional":true},{"name":"SQL","optional":true},{"name":"Tableau","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T21:40:50Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-13","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T21:40:50Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Job Family:\nEnterprise Risk ManagementTravel Required:\nUp to 10%Clearance Required:\nNoneWhat You Will Do:\nThe Associate Director, Enterprise Risk & Strategic Programs will serve as a senior leader within the Integrated Risk & Quality function, under Strategy & Transformation, helping translate enterprise strategy into action and prepare the business for the future by building scalable capabilities, programs, and ways of working across the firm.\nA primary focus of the role will be advancing Guidehouse’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) capability. Working directly with the Director, the Associate Director will help establish and mature an advanced, forward-looking approach to enterprise risk identification, assessment, monitoring, governance, reporting, and decision-making. A critical component will be strengthening the connection between enterprise-level risk and engagement-level risk management, enabling insights from engagement delivery to inform the enterprise risk view while embedding enterprise risk considerations more effectively into how the firm manages its work.\nThe Associate Director will also provide strategic leadership for key enterprise capabilities that connect strategy, risk, quality, and delivery, including Engagement Hub and the Guidehouse Delivery Framework (GDF).\nMore broadly, the role will support the Strategy & Transformation agenda, helping the organization anticipate and prepare for future needs and translating emerging strategic priorities into practical enterprise capabilities. The Associate Director will help take initiatives from strategy and concept through design, implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement, partnering across corporate functions and business leadership to make change sustainable.\nKey Responsibilities\nAdvance Enterprise Risk Management: Partner directly with the Director to mature Guidehouse’s ERM capability, including governance, enterprise risk identification and assessment, monitoring, reporting, escalation, risk response, and continuous improvement.\nConnect enterprise and engagement-level risk: Develop stronger mechanisms for identifying themes and emerging risks from engagements and using those insights to strengthen enterprise risk management, while translating enterprise risk priorities into practical engagement-level processes.\nPrepare the organization for emerging risk: Bring a forward-looking perspective to ERM by assessing trends, evolving business conditions, and emerging risks and translating those insights into actionable recommendations for leadership.\nTurn strategy into execution: Translate enterprise priorities into actionable roadmaps, governance models, operating processes, technology-enabled capabilities, metrics, and sustainable ways of working.\nLead Engagement Hub strategy and governance: Provide business leadership for Engagement Hub, including governance, priorities, stakeholder alignment, adoption, risk and compliance trends, issue escalation, enhancements, and continued evolution.\nAdvance the Guidehouse Delivery Framework: Provide strategic leadership and governance for GDF, supporting firmwide adoption, integration with engagement management, enablement, lessons learned, and continuous improvement.\nLead strategic and transformation initiatives: Take ownership of emerging programs identified by the broader Strategy & Transformation function and help move them from concept through implementation and institutionalization.\nEstablish scalable operating models: Define governance, decision rights, roles and responsibilities, performance measures, controls, and operating processes for new and evolving enterprise capabilities.\nDrive cross-functional execution: Partner with business leadership, corporate functions, technology teams, and process owners to align priorities, manage dependencies, resolve issues, and achieve enterprise outcomes.\nProvide executive-level insight: Translate complex quantitative and qualitative information into concise insights, recommendations, and decision materials for senior leadership.\nDrive adoption and organizational change: Help ensure new capabilities become embedded ways of working through stakeholder engagement, communications, enablement, measurement, and reinforcement.\nDrive continuous improvement: Use data, risk trends, stakeholder feedback, and lessons learned to measure effectiveness and continually improve enterprise capabilities.\nWhat You Will Need:\nBachelor’s Degree; Four (4) years additional professional experience may be substituted in lieu of degree. \nTen (10) + years of professional experience in a related role.\nSignificant experience in Enterprise Risk Management, corporate strategy, transformation, or enterprise program leadership, ideally within a large, complex organization.\nDemonstrated experience supporting or leading an enterprise ERM program, including risk identification, assessment, prioritization, monitoring, reporting, and/or risk response.\nExperience translating enterprise strategy and complex risk information into actionable recommendations for business and senior leadership.\nDemonstrated ability to take strategic concepts and convert them into operating models, frameworks, programs, processes, or technology-enabled capabilities.\nStrong experience working across functions and geographies to drive alignment, decisions, and execution in an environment where direct authority may be limited.\nExperience developing and communicating executive-level risk insights, including synthesizing qualitative and quantitative information for senior leadership.\nDemonstrated experience driving organizational change and adoption of new enterprise processes, frameworks, tools, or capabilities.\nStrong analytical judgment and ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity, evolving priorities, and complex enterprise issues.\nAbility to balance strategic thinking with execution, remaining focused on enterprise outcomes while moving programs from concept through implementation and continuous improvement.\nWhat Would Be Nice To Have:\nExperience helping mature an ERM capability toward a more integrated, data-driven, forward-looking model.\nExperience with GRC platforms, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, or other technology supporting risk and enterprise decision-making.\nExperience developing risk prioritization frameworks, KRIs, analytics, dashboards, or other decision-support mechanisms.\nExperience with emerging-risk identification, scenario analysis, macro risk analysis, or predictive risk insights.\nExperience owning the strategy or roadmap for an internal enterprise product, platform, or capability.\nExperience establishing closed-loop mechanisms that connect risk identification, action, measurement, feedback, and continuous improvement.\nExperience creating standardized approaches across otherwise distinct functions to improve consistency, transparency, and enterprise decision-making.\nFamiliarity with professional services, engagement management, delivery excellence, quality, or engagement-level risk concepts.\nExperience with analytical and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or SQL.\nThe annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00-$216,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. What We Offer:\nGuidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.\nBenefits include:\nMedical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance\n\nPersonal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays\n\nPosition may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus\n\nParental Leave and Adoption Assistance\n\n401(k) Retirement Plan\n\nBasic Life & Supplemental Life\n\nHealth Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts\n\nShort-Term & Long-Term Disability\n\nStudent Loan PayDown\n\nTuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities\n\nSkills Development & Certifications\n\nEmployee Referral Program\n\nCorporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach\n\nEmergency Back-Up Childcare Program\n\nMobility Stipend\n\nAbout Guidehouse\nGuidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.\nGuidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.\nIf you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.\nAll communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or . Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.\nIf any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact . Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.\nGuidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. 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