Clinical & Translational Scholars Program Lead

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Virginia seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead a university-based career development program for early-career researchers. You will oversee strategic planning, recruitment, curriculum development, and stakeholder engagement to advance clinical and translational research objectives.

You will design evaluation frameworks, manage data systems and dashboards, and collaborate with faculty and partners to ensure program impact and sustainability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 4+ years of progressively responsible experience in program management, project management, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex programs or projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, timelines, and deliverables independently.
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships with individuals from diverse professional and academic backgrounds.
• Experience working with data, reporting systems, or program evaluation processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for program planning, implementation, management, and continuous improvement.
• Establish program goals, priorities, policies, workflows, and timelines while coordinating activities and ensuring timely deliverables.
• Identify challenges and implement solutions to improve program effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability.
• Lead recruitment, application review, selection, onboarding, and ongoing participant engagement.
• Monitor participant progress, provide individualized support, and foster professional growth and collaboration.
• Design, coordinate, and evaluate evidence-based curricula, workshops, seminars, and professional development activities in collaboration with faculty and subject-matter experts.
• Develop evaluation strategies, metrics, and data collection processes to assess program effectiveness, participant outcomes, and long-term impact.
• Manage databases, tracking systems, dashboards, and reporting tools; streamline and automate administrative workflows.
• Analyze program data, communicate findings, and use evaluation results to guide decisions and continuous improvement.
• Build and maintain partnerships with faculty, mentors, institutional leaders, researchers, trainees, and administrative teams.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities, strengthen institutional collaborations, and contribute to strategic initiatives in researcher and workforce development.
• Develop and maintain program websites, digital resources, communications, presentations, reports, and educational materials.
• Communicate program accomplishments, outcomes, and impact through institutional and professional channels.
• Contribute to grant proposals, funding applications, progress reports, and initiatives supporting program sustainability.
• Track program accomplishments and deliverables for institutional and sponsor reporting.
• Collaborate on manuscripts, abstracts, presentations, and other scholarly products.

Skills

Program management

Strategic thinking

Project management

Communication

Facilitation

Relationship management

Evaluation and data

Instructional design

Problem solving

Organization

Adaptability

Technology literacy

Education

Bachelor's degree

PMP/PMI certification

Job description

University of Virginia seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead a university-based career development program for early-career researchers. You will oversee strategic planning, recruitment, curriculum development, and stakeholder engagement to advance clinical and translational research objectives.

You will design evaluation frameworks, manage data systems and dashboards, and collaborate with faculty and partners to ensure program impact and sustainability.