Job#: 3028709 Job Description: Enterprise Governance Execution Lead
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Role Overview
An opportunity exists for a motivated and experienced individual to provide robust support, oversight, and execution of strategic and governance deliverables. The ideal candidate is a senior, hands-on execution lead with deep experience supporting technology lines of business through structured strategic forums, governance routines, and formal issue management. This role owns outputs end-to-end, connects many moving parts, drives issue remediation to closure, and moves work forward despite ambiguity.
Key Responsibilities
- Own recurring strategic, governance, or issue management forums, including agenda design, input coordination, material development, and meeting facilitation.
- Directly manage formal issue remediation processes, including tracking plans, monitoring progress, and proactively escalating blockers.
- Articulate issue statements, impacts, and root causes for audit, risk, regulatory, and self-identified issues.
- Produce executive-level decks and reporting used by leadership to monitor issue health, make risk-based decisions, and hold teams accountable.
- Define structure, frame issues, and move work forward independently in an environment with evolving direction.
- Write procedures, playbooks, or operating guides related to governance, issue management, and execution.
Required Qualifications
Experience:- Proven experience owning recurring strategic, governance, or issue management forums.
- Direct management of formal issue remediation processes (audit, risk, regulatory).
- History of supporting technology, engineering, or architecture organizations, ideally in complex or regulated environments.
Technical Skills:- Advanced proficiency in Excel for data reconciliation, issue tracking, and analysis.
- Advanced PowerPoint skills for creating executive-level presentations.
- Comfort using AI tools and designing effective prompts to automate reporting and improve consistency.
- Proficiency with Data Governance and Project Management.
Core Capabilities
- Takes full accountability for governance deliverables and issue remediation outcomes.
- Strong ability in mining, validating, and reconciling data across various sources to generate clear insights.
- Precise and clear written communication suitable for audit and executive audiences.
- Calm, confident, and credible demeanor with senior leadership.
- Detail-oriented with strong respect for timelines, commitments, and accuracy.
This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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