Program & Project Management Lead – Emerging Priorities

Atlanta, GA, USA – Full-time – Travel as required to fulfill the responsibilities of the position

About the role

ASRT is seeking a Program & Project Management Lead – Emerging Priorities to establish repeatable project-management processes that enable the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 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.

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Public Health, or related discipline.
• Master’s degree in Business Management or Public Health preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred.
• Agile/Scrum certification desirable.
• Change-management certification desirable.
• Minimum 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.
• CDC/Health and Human Services (HHS) experience preferred.
• Public-health emergency response or emerging-priority work preferred.
• Dashboard development experience preferred.
• Change management experience preferred.
• Federal communication/clearance processes experience preferred.
• PMO development or implementation experience preferred.
• Experience supporting executive leadership and cross-functional workgroups preferred.
• Must be a United States citizen or permanent resident or have authorization for employment in the United States.

Skills

• 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.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

Pay

$100,000–$130,000 annually