Governance Consultant – GRC Practice

About Artemis Connection

Artemis Connection is a strategic management consultancy working across the for-profit, public, and social sectors. We help clients around the world identify their most pressing strategic issues and staff teams of strategy consultants to roll up their sleeves and deliver impact. We are passionate about helping innovative and entrepreneurial leaders reach their goals through a customized, project-based approach.

Our GRC practice works with organizations navigating complex regulatory environments, scaling compliance programs, and building governance structures that actually drive decisions. Our clients include high-growth technology companies, government contractors, and mission-driven organizations that need governance frameworks built for how they actually operate.

Our founder is Christy Johnson, an entrepreneur, educator, and former McKinsey Engagement Manager. Our team is made up of seasoned consultants trained at organizations such as McKinsey & Company, BCG, Bain, Big 4 Strategy, and elite educational institutions.

About the Role

In this role, you will help clients strengthen and operationalize governance practices that enable clear decision-making, effective oversight, and risk-informed execution across an organization. You will assess current-state governance, design fit-for-purpose structures — decision rights, forums, and accountability — and then implement the routines, artifacts, and reporting cadences that make governance adoptable and durable.

This is a client-facing role that requires comfort navigating ambiguity, facilitating across functions, and producing executive-ready outputs. You should be equally strong at designing the governance model and driving its implementation.

What You'll Do

Assess and Improve Current-State Governance

Evaluate decision-making pathways, forums and committees, escalation routes, roles and responsibilities, and how governance artifacts are used in practice. Identify gaps, overlaps, and friction points that slow execution or create risk.

Design Governance Structures, Decision Rights, and Accountability

Design or refresh fit-for-purpose governance models, including decision rights, accountability frameworks such as RACIs, escalation protocols, and role clarity across teams and leadership levels.

Build and Operationalize Governance Artifacts and Routines

Develop and implement the governance documentation and operating mechanisms that make governance real and repeatable, including charters, agendas, decision logs, action tracking, policy and standards structures, lifecycle and exception processes, and lightweight operating guidance.

Drive Adoption Through Implementation Planning and Enablement

Translate governance design into roadmaps and workplans, coordinate stakeholders, manage dependencies, and support change enablement through communications, training, and rollout support to drive adoption and sustained usage.

Establish Metrics and Reporting Cadences

Define governance KPIs and KRIs and reporting cadences. Stand up repeatable reporting that gives leadership visibility into adoption, decision speed and follow-through, open issues, and risk signals.

What You Bring

Required

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in governance, risk, compliance, or a closely related field
• Demonstrated ability to assess, design, and implement governance structures, decision rights, and accountability models in complex organizations
• Strong facilitation skills and experience producing executive-ready deliverables, including slides, memos, and frameworks
• Strong execution discipline: coordinating stakeholders, tracking actions, risks, and dependencies, and driving follow-through
• Experience with governance and control frameworks such as COBIT, ISO 27001, or NIST CSF / 800-53

Preferred

• Minimum 2+ years of consulting or client-facing advisory experience
• Relevant professional certification such as CGEIT, CRISC, CISM, or CISA
• Familiarity with regulated or risk-sensitive environments including cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, or government contracting
• Experience standing up governance programs in high-growth technology or SaaS environments

What Makes Someone Successful Here

The consultants who thrive here have designed, refreshed, and implemented governance models, routines, and reporting to improve visibility and follow-through. They have developed policy or standards frameworks and strengthened policy lifecycle processes, established cross-functional accountability using RACIs and clear ownership models, clarified decision rights across teams to push execution, and operationalized adoption through training, communications, and review cycles.

They are comfortable supporting governance in regulated or risk-sensitive environments such as cybersecurity, privacy, or data. They understand that governance is ultimately a behavioral problem — the artifact is only as good as the institution's willingness to use it — and they know how to close that gap.

Compensation and Structure

This role is structured as a project-based engagement, typically 12 months in duration with the possibility to extend based on client needs and performance. This role is remote, with occasional travel potentially required based on client needs. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience; details will be discussed during the interview process.