Program & Project Management Lead Emerging Priorities

JOB TITLE:  Program & Project Management Lead – Emerging Priorities 

POSITION NUMBER: 260821-0085-PPML-EP

POSITION LOCATION: Atlanta, GA, USA

TRAVEL: As required to fulfill the responsibilities of the position

ASRT is seeking a Program & Project Management Lead – Emerging Priorities  to establish repeatable project-management processes that enable The Center for Disease Control and Prevention C(DC) to rapidly organize, prioritize, implement, and monitor emerging public-health initiatives. The role will translate emerging requirements into executable workplans, schedules, governance structures, dashboards, risk controls, communication processes, and change-management activities.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead project-management support for emerging CDC priorities. 
• Develop repeatable approaches for identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing projects. 
• Translate emerging requirements into project  charters, workplans, milestones, activities, and ownership. 
• Establish project schedules, milestones, dependencies, and governance. 
• Develop dashboards for status, milestones, risks, issues, and executive decision-making. 
• Maintain risk, issue, action, assumption, and  decision logs. 
• Develop project-management standards, templates, SOPs, checklists, and job aids. 
• Develop and execute transition and change-management plans. 
• Coordinate high-priority workgroups and stakeholder activities. 
• Manage production calendars for significant events and communication products. 
• Track leadership deadlines and communication-clearance activities. 
• Identify project-management training and competency needs. 
• Develop training materials and support adoption of standardized project-management practices. 
• Provide management reporting, variance analysis, and  corrective-action recommendations. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in  Business Management, Public Health, or related discipline .

Preferred Education/Certification

• Master’s degree in  Business Management or Public Health . 
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred. 
• Agile/Scrum certification desirable. 
• Change-management certification desirable.

Minimum Experience

• 6 years of progressively responsible project-management experience. 
• Experience managing complex Federal, public-health, healthcare, or professional-services projects. 
• Demonstrated schedule, risk, quality, and stakeholder-management capability. 
• Experience managing concurrent projects 

Preferred Experience

• CDC/Health and Human Services (HHS) experience. 
• Public-health emergency response or emerging-priority work. 
• Dashboard development. 
• Change management. 
• Federal communication/clearance processes. 
• PMO development or implementation. 
• Experience supporting executive leadership and cross-functional workgroups. 

Required Skills & Tools

• Project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/control, and closeout. 
• Integrated schedule and milestone management. 
• Dependency and critical-path management. 
• Risk, issue, action, and decision tracking. 
• Project governance and stakeholder management. 
• Change and transition management. 
• Dashboard and performance-report development. 
• Production-calendar and deadline management. 
• Executive-level reporting and briefing. 
• PMO standards, templates, and process development. 
• Training-needs assessment and job-aid development. 
• Microsoft Project or comparable project-scheduling software. 
• Microsoft Planner, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. 
• Power BI for project dashboards and performance reporting. 
• Smartsheet or  comparable project/work management platform. 
• Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or comparable workflow/issue-management tools desirable. 
• Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, and predictive project-management approaches. 

Language Skills:

• The candidate must possess excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

REQUIREMENT: Must be a United States citizen or permanent resident or have authorization for employment in the United States.

SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

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