Executive Technology Advisor: Strategy, Risk & Growth

Principal Technology Advisor - BEAM
Full-Time
United Methodist Communities Home Office| Neptune, NJ

Start anew career as aPrincipal Technology Advisor - BEAM with United Methodist Communities!

United Methodist Communities has beenCertified as a Great Place to Work for 9consecutive years, and87% of our team members say they feel they make a differencein the work they do. Withmore than a century of service in New Jersey, our community offers a rewarding environment where your work truly matters.

What You'll Do:

• Serve as the primary technology advisor for assigned clients, building trusted relationships with leadership, staff, boards, and strategic partners while gaining a deep understanding of their goals, operations, and technology needs
• Lead ongoing client engagement through regular meetings, communication, action item follow-up, and accountable relationship management while maintaining professionalism, confidentiality, and vendor-neutral consulting practices

• Lead STRONG assessments (Strategy, Technology, Risk, Operations, Norms, Governance), CIS-based cybersecurity scoring, budget analysis, and IT structuring reviews, and build technology strategies, roadmaps, budgets, and staffing plans sized to each client’s revenue and maturity
• Advise boards and executives on cyber risk, breach readiness, AI governance, and affiliation or vendor diligence, translating technical risk into board terms: the decision, the cost, the exposure, and the timing

• Lead AI readiness, governance, and adoption, including policies, use-case selection, and Copilot and AI literacy rollouts, in partnership with BEAM’s digital literacy and adoption specialist
• Scope and oversee hands-on work, including Microsoft 365 and cybersecurity configuration, automation, data, and integration, delivered with BEAM’s specialists and partners, with results measured as staff time returned to residents, risk reduced, or cost avoided

• Expand within the portfolio by identifying the next service each client needs, and open new relationships through referral partners, Leading Age, CAST, state associations, conferences, and your own professional network
• Write proposals and statements of work that hand off cleanly to delivery, and represent BEAM Advisors through speaking, workshops, and thought leadership

• Turn repeated work into reusable BEAM assets such as assessment templates, benchmarks, an AI governance toolkit, and playbooks, while helping improve BEAM’s methodology and onboarding resources
• Mentor BEAM specialists as they join, and support UMC’s own technology strategy and innovation work, in an advisory role with no help desk or on-call duties

What You'll Need:
Required

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, healthcare administration, management, or a related discipline
• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in technology leadership, consulting, program or project management, IT operations, cybersecurity, digital transformation, or a related field, including at least 5 years owning executive-level relationships as a CIO, IT director, or senior consultant
• Ability to maintain any license, credential, or authorization required for assigned travel or client-site access

Preferred

• Master’s degree in business, information systems, healthcare administration, organizational leadership, or a related field
• Experience as a CIO, IT director, senior technology advisor, management consultant, or program leader; experience managing a portfolio of clients or business units; and experience in senior living, aging services, healthcare, nonprofit, or another regulated and operationally complex environment
• Experience in an…