Program Director – Cyber Execution & Operations

Sentara Health; United States; Remote; USD 117,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Paid Time Off and Sick Leave

401k/403B with Employer Match

Tuition Assistance – Guild Education

Job summary

Sentara Health is seeking a Program Director for Cyber Execution & Operations to drive program rigor across the cyber portfolio. This remote role reports to the Director and involves coordinating with Cyber, IT, and business leadership. Travel 1–2 times per quarter may be required.

The candidate will plan, implement, and manage initiatives, ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining high-quality communications and documentation across the Office of the CISO.

Qualifications

• Experienced, proactive, self-driven generalist.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Organized and detail-oriented; able to meet deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Able to translate data into meaningful insights.
• Able to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
• Cyber security work experience.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Occasional work outside standard business hours.

Responsibilities

• Key interface with other Cyber, IT, and business teams and build a strong personal brand.
• Plan, execute, and oversee programs and initiatives to improve operations and execution.
• Communicate status of ownership space clearly and professionally.
• Document and maintain Office of the CISO processes and procedures.
• Plan and support meetings with clear agendas, notes, decks, and communications.
• Collaborate to identify reporting needs for strategic decision-making.
• Rebuild and maintain SharePoint/Teams artifacts and branding.
• Forecast, contract, invoice, and optimize budgets.
• Identify areas for improvement and propose recommendations.
• Coach and train cyber staff in operational best practices.

Skills

Agile work experience

Product methodology work experience

Cyber security work experience

Experience leading cross-functional 팀

Interpersonal communication

Data-to-insight translation

Analytical/problem-solving/decision

PowerPoint and Excel skills

Education

8+ years of relevant experience with a degree

10+ years of relevant experience without a degree

Experience in lieu of a Bachelor's Degree

Tools

SharePoint/Teams

Job description

City/State

Norfolk, VA

Work Shift

First (Days)

Overview:

Sentara is hiring a Program Director - Cyber Execution and Operations

This position is fully remote.

Occasional travel is required one to two times per quarter.

Overview

Work Location:

Remote opportunities available in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington (state), West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Role Summary

The Program Director – Cyber Execution & Operations (E&O), Office of the CISO, will serve as an integral team member helping drive program rigor and execution across the cyber security portfolio in a manner that meets Sentara Health requirements. The E&O team designs and/or provides the operational frameworks, processes, and tools for Cyber team implementation and use. Reporting directly to the Director – Cyber Execution and Operations, you will work on a broad range of initiatives and diverse work products while regularly interacting with all levels of leadership across Cyber, IT, and the business. As a foundational member of a recently formed team, you will be directly involved in the team’s ongoing evolution.

Essential Responsibilities: As someone who enjoys managing a multitude of details and timelines, identifying improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness, and has a drive to continuously improve the work areas you touch, you will be accountable for successfully planning, implementing, and managing the initiatives and tasks you own. Must be an experienced strategic thinker who is adept at gaining an understanding of current state and translating that into a better future state. You can see both the big picture and all the supporting details along the way. Able to identify issues or gaps, connect the dots end-to-end, and lead problem-solving and maturity efforts with minimal oversight. Comfortable and experienced in using action and influence to drive collaboration, accountability, and on-time delivery.

Primary Responsibilities

• Key interface with other Cyber, IT, and business teams. Understands the importance of building a strong personal brand within an organization.
• Program and Portfolio Management: Plan, execute, and oversee programs and initiatives to improve operations and execution.
• Must be able to effectively communicate on a timely basis all aspects of your ownership space in a consistently professional, high quality manner including status on both individual work items and program initiatives.
• Ensure Office of the CISO core foundational processes and procedures are properly documented and maintained.
• Meeting planning, preparation, and support: Thrive on creating clear, concise, and relevant agendas, meeting notes, decks, and communications based on specific audiences that accurately reflect the Cyber brand. Effectively prepare presenters and actively facilitate meetings of all types (e.g., virtual, in-person, and hybrid).
• Collaborate to identify Office of the CISO reporting needs to support ongoing strategic decision-making and work with necessary parties to create.
• Microsoft SharePoint/Teams artifact storage rebuild, rebranding, and maintenance.
• Budget optimization: Forecasting, contracting, invoicing, etc.
• Identify areas of improvement and propose recommendations to address.
• Coach and train cyber staff in operational best practices.

Requirements

• Experienced, proactive, self-driven generalist.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Anticipates obstacles, develops plans to resolve, and appropriately communicates. Experienced in effectively applying strategic thinking and visioning, resulting in successful outcomes.
• Organized and detail-oriented. Able to work well under deadlines in a changing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experienced in working effectively in ambiguous situations and in effectively determining the best path forward.
• Able to translate data into meaningful insights and written summaries.
• Excels at prioritization, presentation, and facilitation. Models related to best practices.
• Comfortable owning your space and establishing a sense of urgency in the fabric of what you do.
• Agile work experience.
• Product methodology work experience.
• Ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
• Ability to effectively interact with all levels of management.
• Cyber security work experience.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
• Strong Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Occasional work outside of standard business hours.

Desired Characteristics

• Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams and initiatives.
• Growth mindset. Change-oriented in both actions and words.
• Experience successfully executing multiple simultaneous initiatives – both planned and ad hoc.
• Proponent of people change management with experience incorporating it into your work.
• Expects resistance to change and enjoys the challenge of mitigating it in positive ways.
• Product Owner experience.
• Healthcare experience.
• Experience with various industry regulations and frameworks (PCI, HIPAA, Data Privacy Laws, ISO27001/2, NIST, HITRUST, etc.).

Education

• 8+ years of relevant experience with a degree (Required)

or

• 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree (Required)
• Experience in lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree

Certification/Licensure

• A relevant professional certification - Project Portfolio Management
  (PPM) (Required)

or

• Program Management Professional (PgMP) (Required)

or

• Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) (Required)

Experience

• 8 to 10+ years of relevant experience (Required)

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay rate for Full Time employment is: $116,729.60 - $216,777.60. Additional compensation may be available for this role such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus ifestablished system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco‑free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.