Program & Project Management Lead – Emerging Priorities

ASRT, Inc.•Atlanta, GA

21h•Onsite

About 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 (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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Public Health, or related discipline.
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.
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.
Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, and predictive project-management approaches.
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
Must be a United States citizen or permanent resident or have authorization for employment in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Business Management or Public Health.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred.
Agile/Scrum certification desirable.
Change-management certification desirable.
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.
Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or comparable workflow/issue-management tools desirable.

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.