Project Manager, Specialty Care Program Support

About the role

Artemis seeks an experienced Project Manager to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Specialty Care Program Office (SCPO). SCPO provides national leadership, governance, and oversight for specialty care programs, Centers of Excellence, and clinical service lines across VHA, as well as enterprise initiatives such as the Federal Electronic Health Record, the PACT Act, Access initiatives, and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE).

This role will support one to two SCPO workstreams, working closely with workstream sponsors, business leads, and Government leadership to ensure initiatives are executed consistently and in accordance with VA standards and enterprise objectives. The Project Manager collaborates with data analysts, developers, and SMEs to ensure coordinated execution across the program.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project schedules, action trackers, and other project management tools to monitor milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and overall workstream performance.
• Coordinate activities across related programs, projects, and initiatives to support timely completion of assigned work.
• Produce 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.
• Facilitate working sessions, stakeholder meetings, and decision-making forums.
• Conduct functional assessments to evaluate current-state workflows, roles, and capability gaps and recommend process improvements.
• Maintain risk, issue, decision, and action-item logs.
• Track approved scope changes.
• Maintain organized project files using version control and records management practices.
• Provide Government customers with timely reporting on status, schedule, risks, issues, and performance metrics to support informed decision-making.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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).

About Aptive

Aptive partners with federal agencies to achieve their missions through improved performance, streamlined operations and enhanced service delivery. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, we support more than a dozen agencies including Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Defense, Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation. We specialize in applying technology, creativity and human-centered services to optimize mission delivery and improve experiences for millions of people who count on government services every day.

Founded: 2012. Employees: 300+ nationwide.