Program Director

Role Overview

• Lead and manage a multi-disciplinary team in planning and implementation of federal healthcare contracts including patient safety and health services related programs
• Create long and short-term plans, including setting targets for milestones, adhering to deadlines and effectively communicating possible project risks/delays to reduce impact to overall value delivery
• Manage project budget, project team capacity allocation, project evaluation/assessments, and project deliverables
• Assist in the definition of project scope and goals as well as identifying and managing potential risks and liabilities of multiple projects
• Make effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress within a project including selectively delegating tasks to employees best positioned to complete them
• Translate federal program operations into actionable practices, fostering partnerships between major stakeholders, and handling various contract types
• Provide operational oversight for multiple ongoing tasks, ensuring alignment with national program vision, communicating with executives, the board, and other stakeholders to keep the project goals aligned
• Lead multiple stakeholder meetings including preparing and delivering presentations
• Contribute to solution and architecture design for healthcare technology projects, ensuring alignment with program requirements and project efficiency efforts
• Performing quality control on the project to maintain the standards expected, including adjusting schedules and targets on the project as needed
• Motivating people involved in the project to complete tasks on time
• Serve as a point of contact for teams when multiple units are assigned to the same project to ensure team actions remain in synergy
• Oversee reporting of Earned Value Management (EVM) to assess project performance and progress
• Lead the innovation track that will result in organic growth for the project
• Provide proposal support for new opportunities
• Participate and contribute to capturing opportunities in the same domain/agency
• Support your team providing resources they need to do their job
• Oversee and participate in goal setting and yearly performance reviews for your team
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Business, Health Services & Sciences or a related field.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust (Tier I) Clearance.
• Must possess a minimum of ten (10) years of professional and technical experience supporting federal government clients preferably CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or similar.
• Proficient in MS Office desktop publishing and document formatting tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).
• Proven success as a people leader, including experience managing large projects with many staff members and activities.
• Knowledge of various project management methodologies (e.g., agile/scrum).
• Proven client management experience.
• Must demonstrate a detailed understanding of multiple federal & non-federal stakeholders with the proven ability to conduct multiple stakeholder meetings, preparing and delivering presentations on tasks.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities with the ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Benefits

• flexible work schedules with remote, hybrid, or fully in-person workplace options