Program Director

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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📋 Program Manager

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Aptive Resources

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2012

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Defense • Logistics • Marketing

Aptive Resources is a management consulting firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, specializing in providing innovative solutions to federal government agencies, particularly in veteran and civilian health sectors. With a strong focus on performance optimization, human capital, and data analytics, Aptive aims to improve the quality and accessibility of health care services for veterans and the general public. The company utilizes technology and human-centered services to bridge divides and enhance public service delivery for multiple agencies, including Veterans Affairs, Defense, and others.

📋 Description

• Provide technical program leadership for the contractor team across all six workstreams • Align AI inventory, risk management, oversight, strategy, and field operations delivery to a single operating model • Develop the AI center of excellence operational playbook, staffing model, and standard operating procedures • Document and recommend distributed VHA AI innovation and governance processes • Develop and recommend the operational structure and support model for field partnership pilots, including five field-based pilot AI project development teams • Support VHA business units in creating and updating AI innovation and governance strategies across at least five business units • Develop AI entrepreneur and adopter playbooks covering internal development pathways and vendor evaluation • Design and lead qualitative and quantitative assessments of pilot outcomes and program implementation • Manage the program to cost, schedule, and performance, and identify and mitigate risks • Serve as the contractor’s senior escalation point to government leadership on delivery status, resourcing, and risk • Develop programming for the VHA AI Assessment Subcommittee, field AI committees, and other centralized governance entities, including trainings and summits • Support administrative operations, planning, and content development for monthly meetings across at least two AI oversight committees and one workgroup

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 15 years of program management experience across diverse IT projects, both large and small • Preferred: 10 or more years in healthcare and 5 or more years leading artificial intelligence, data science, or emerging-technology programs • Experience managing a portfolio of projects • Experience with diverse IT projects, including AI-related projects • Well versed in the full systems development life cycle • Enterprise-wide network engineering knowledge • Strategic information planning knowledge • Business process reengineering knowledge • Experience managing to cost, schedule, and performance • Ability to identify and mitigate program risks • Demonstrated understanding of SAFe Lean Agile principles and practices • Master’s degree in Health Administration, Public Health, Data Science, Informatics, Business, or a related field • Must be able to obtain and maintain a favorably adjudicated Tier 1 / National Agency Check with Written Inquiries (NACI) background investigation • Must complete VA Privacy and Information Security Awareness and Rules of Behavior training (TMS #10176) before system access and annually thereafter • Must be authorized to work in the United States • All work must be performed within a jurisdiction subject to the law of the United States or its territories • PMP certification or equivalent, SAFe Agilist or SAFe Program Consultant certification, and Prosci change management certification preferred • Demonstrated success standing up an AI center of excellence, innovation pipeline, or comparable operating model inside a large organization • VHA, VISN, or comparable large integrated health system program experience • Experience managing a portfolio of field-based pilots and converting pilot results into scaling decisions • Strong qualitative and quantitative program evaluation capability • Change management experience in a large, distributed, and unionized workforce environment • Ability to brief senior government leadership on technical program status and risk • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills • Knowledge of military and Veteran populations

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time employment • Remote work • Contingent hire position • No travel anticipated • Equal opportunity employment • Veterans, members of the Reserve and National Guard, and transitioning active-duty service members are highly encouraged to apply