Project Implementation Manager – San Antonio

The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.9 billion and launched more than 1,300 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.  

Job Highlights

• Location: Remote, must be based in the United States
• Salary Range: $100,000-$140,000 plus benefits
• Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity
• Position End Date: June 30, 2025 

Overview

• The Project Implementation Manager will drive the delivery of technical projects that improve the use of public health data to inform decision making. Working within City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, the Project Implementation Manager will collaborate across technical and non-technical teams to define project objectives, allocate resources, coordinate with teams, and manage timelines to ensure the successful delivery and implementation of a public health data systems project. This position will work on three projects in collaboration with the Information Technology Services Department (ITSD) and program staff to determine areas of alignment. The first project is an enterprise-wide case management system, which will provide the ability for multiple Metro Health programs to collect data in a standardized manner and create an enterprise-wide case management system to capture data on the individuals that these programs serve such as Domestic Violence, Access to Care UNLOCKED, Diabetes, Oral Health, Healthy Neighborhoods and Healthy Start. The second focus will be replacing two legacy systems used within Metro Health. The first system is the Electronic Medical Record system used by clinical programs (TB, HIV/STI, Immunizations and Oral Health) and has been used since February 2019. The second system is the Digital Health Department (DHD) system. DHD has been in use since 2009 and will be sunset in 2026 as the current vendor, Tyler Technologies, will no longer be supporting this version. DHD is used by food and environmental health inspectors, the air quality program, and vector control. The Project Implementation Manager will play a key role in all the project management phases of the defined IT projects. They will work closely with our departmental subject matter experts (SMEs) and IT staff/leadership, to develop the project management plan. During the planning and scoping phase, other necessary deliverables will include the development of project charters, the work breakdown structure (WBS) and communication plan. These items will be shared and/or presented to departmental leadership. This position will also be pivotal in conducting project kickoff meetings with our internal stakeholders, identifying and defining key project tasks, scheduling project discovery and status meetings, developing a Statement of Work (SOW), and project timeline/plan. During execution, this position will generate routine status reports to update on project progress and any risks or issues encountered. These progress reports will also need to include data demonstrating progress towards project milestones. A shared repository will be utilized in this position to capture all created project documents, communication plans, and schedules. To decrease potential scope creep, the Project Implementation Manager will frequently assess for any variances from the project plans while implementing any necessary changes within time, cost, and quality objective standards. The Project Implementation Manager will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to multidisciplinary teams in the development and delivery of data-driven applications, databases, dashboards, data analytics, or other public health products.
• Collaborate with ITSD and program staff.
• Coordinate, lead or participate in project meetings; working closely with technical teams, product manager(s), developers, subject matter experts, vendors, and users.
• Define, document, and track project timelines, workplans, and processes to drive project deliverables within scope, deadlines, and budget.
• Define clear roles and responsibilities and ensure standards and best practices are followed.
• Work with user community, technical teams and vendors to meet implementation timeline.
• Facilitate business/functional requirement review, approval, and sign-off sessions.
• Document business practices and workflows, identify opportunities for improvement, support process improvement, discover issues and deliver improved value.
• Prioritize initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Effectively communicating insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Ensure solutions meet business needs and requirements. Monitor service level agreements.   

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, information systems, computer engineering, operations management or related field required. MBA or other related advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of related experience managing technical projects.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, agile (Scrum/Kanban) and iterative development methodologies, standard and best practices for data analytics, application development, enterprise data platforms, etc.
• Understanding of data architecture, data modeling, data analytics, visualization, application development, cloud engineering
• Expert knowledge of project management fundamentals, including the ability to develop and implement accurate work plans, schedules, staffing plans, and budgets, in an agile or iterative environment.
• Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to lead technical projects through smooth and continuous delivery.
• Experienced in change management and risk management principles and processes to provide leadership in the development of strategic plans and change management initiatives and their roll-out.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to describe difficult technical problems and solutions to technical and non-technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining working relationships with internal and external partners and can effectively promote collaboration among differing viewpoints.
• Strong understanding of technical concepts and legacy systems.
• Knowledge of user experience design and user research principles and concepts.
• Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills; and the ability to develop productive working relationships with colleagues and partners.
• Experience working in a virtual environment with remote partners and teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Special Notes

• This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by the CDC Foundation in order to best support the public health programming.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.
We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.
The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.  Relocation expenses are not included. Apply