Program Manager

10100 Children's Hospital; United States; On-site; USD 131,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's National Hospital in Silver Spring, MD, is seeking a Program Manager, Digital Health to lead a portfolio of digital health initiatives from initiation through completion, coordinating multiple workstreams that touch patients, families, clinicians, and referring providers.

You will align tools with clinical workflows, oversee cross‑functional teams, manage vendors, track milestones and budgets, and drive adoption of patient‑facing technology in a fast‑paced healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a related field.
• PM experience in healthcare IT with internal and external audiences.
• Vendor management experience and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define scope, timeline, milestones, and budget for digital health initiatives.
• Coordinate work across teams, ensuring consistency and standards.
• Gather input from patients and families on usability and accessibility.
• Align digital tools with clinical workflows and adoption needs.
• Manage relationships with external vendor networks and contractors.
• Provide regular program updates to stakeholders and leadership.
• Maintain risk and issue logs and monitor dependencies across projects.
• Coordinate phased training and rollout for staff and clinics.

Skills

Multi-stakeholder coordination

Agile / Waterfall

Clear communication

Issue tracking

Familiarity with EHR systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

EHR systems

Job description

1 Inventa Place Silver Spring, MD 20910 Kids Are Our Everything. Department 10014 Clinical Informatics. Pay Range $131,060.80 - $218,441.60

The Program Manager, Digital Health leads a portfolio of digital health projects from initiation through completion. This role coordinates multiple concurrent, interconnected workstreams that touch patients, families, internal providers, and referring providers, ensuring each is delivered on time and works well together, while partnering closely with clinical, technical, and vendor teams to support pediatric care.

Key Responsibilities

• Define scope, timeline, milestones, and budget for each project within a related set of digital health initiatives, sequencing and coordinating dependencies between them.
• Coordinate work across teams, ensuring consistency and shared standards.
• Gather input and feedback from patients and families on tools that affect their care experience and ensure usability and accessibility needs are addressed before rollout.
• Work with internal clinicians and care teams to align digital tools with clinical workflows, gather workflow requirements, and support adoption.
• Partner with referring provider networks and their staff to ensure external-facing tools integrate smoothly with their existing processes.
• Manage relationships with vendors supporting these tools - tracking deliverables, implementation timelines, and issue resolution across each project.
• Lead team collaboration initiatives, manage cross-functional teams, and foster a collaborative, mission-driven environment.
• Provide consolidated status updates to a wide stakeholder group - patients/families, internal providers, referring providers, and operational leadership - tailoring communication to each audience.
• Maintain risk and issue logs across all active projects, watching for dependencies or conflicts between them and across stakeholder groups.
• Coordinate phased training and rollout support for internal staff, referring provider offices, and patients/families as each project reaches deployment.
• Drive high-impact initiatives to support digital transformation.

Education

Bachelor's degree required.

Experience

Project management experience in healthcare IT, with experience managing tools or projects that serve both internal and external (patient-or-provider-facing) audiences; vendor management experience.

Skills

Strong multi-stakeholder coordination across clinical, patient/family, and referring provider groups; task and timeline management (Agile/Waterfall); clear communication tailored to varied audiences; issue tracking; working familiarity with EHR systems and patient-facing platforms; digital and content accessibility.

Functional Accountabilities

• Lead the end-to-end management of complex programs, including defining program scope, goals, deliverables, resources, and budget.
• Develop and maintain program roadmaps, timelines, and project plans, ensuring alignment with business objectives and strategic goals.
• Act as the primary point of contact for program stakeholders, providing regular updates on program status, risks, and mitigations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify requirements, allocate resources, and manage dependencies between projects and initiatives.
• Implement best practices and methodologies for program management, ensuring consistent and efficient execution across the IS department.
• Identify potential risks and issues within the program and develop strategies to address and mitigate them.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior project/program managers, fostering their growth and development.
• Monitor and report program metrics and KPIs, providing insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Support the evaluation and selection of external vendors, partners, and contractors when necessary.
• Collaborate with the IS leadership team to align program strategies with the overall IS roadmap and business objectives.

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children's National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children's National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual's combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications.

Children's National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

Children's National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law.

The Know Your Rights poster is available here: Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a drug-free work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act) or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.