Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aptive partners with federal agencies to improve performance, streamline operations, and enhance service delivery, including support for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Project Manager will support one to two Specialty Care Program Office workstreams by managing schedules, deliverables, risks, reporting, stakeholder coordination, and enterprise healthcare initiatives for the Veterans Health Administration.
Responsibilities
- Developing and maintaining project schedules, action trackers, and other project management tools to monitor milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and overall workstream performance
- Coordinating activities across related programs, projects, and initiatives to support timely completion of assigned work
- Producing executive-level status reports, dashboards, policies, SOPs, templates, presentations, memorandums, SharePoint sites and Teams channels, newsletters, annual reports, fact sheets/FAQs, communication plans, business plans, funding requests, and budgets, as requested by the Government
- Facilitates working sessions, stakeholder meetings, and decision-making forums
- May conduct functional assessments to evaluate current-state workflows, roles, and capability gaps and recommend process improvements
- Collaborates with data analysts, developers, and SMEs to ensure coordinated execution across the program
- Maintaining risk, issue, decision, and action-item logs
- Tracking approved scope changes
- Maintaining organized project files using version control and records management practices
- Providing Government customers with timely reporting on status, schedule, risks, issues, and performance metrics to support informed decision-making
Skills
- Bachelor's degree (BA/BS)
- Minimum four (4) years of experience successfully managing a large-scale, complex program encompassing multiple projects
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or similar in quality, with a minimum of four (4) years' experience supporting a large corporation or government agency, preferably a large health care organization
- Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills
- Master's degree
- Eight (8) or more years of experience managing large-scale, complex programs or projects, preferably within a large health care organization
- Experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or Veterans Health Administration (VHA), particularly specialty care, clinical programs, or enterprise transformation initiatives
- Familiarity with federal health care environments and enterprise initiatives such as electronic health record modernization, the PACT Act, or Access initiatives
- Experience developing executive dashboards, status reporting, and SharePoint/Microsoft Teams-based collaboration tools
- Additional relevant certification(s) (e.g., Lean Six Sigma, Change Management)
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