Program Manager III

Kaiser Permanente; San Diego, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in San Diego seeks a Project/Program Manager to lead small-to-medium initiatives across departments, ensuring outcomes from initiation to close-out. You will coordinate internal and external resources, monitor risks, governance, and compliance with accreditation standards.

The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, change management, and process standardization to support residency and fellowship programs within a dynamic, regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and 3+ years of project management experience or 6+ years in related field.
• Experience in academic medicine and GME administration is preferred.
• ACGME requirements knowledge is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead small-to-medium projects with multi-workstreams toward defined outcomes.
• Coordinate internal and external resources and monitor risks and issues.
• Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and accreditation requirements.
• Engage stakeholders and vendors to align goals and deliverables.

Skills

Ambiguity Management

Communication

Decision Making

Problem Solving

Project Management Tools

Change Management

Risk Assessment

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Access

Tableau

Minitab

QI Macros

Job description

Technical Summary: Ideal candidate (skills, experience, background) reporting to the San Diego GME Manager, brings a strong foundation in both Graduate Medical Education administration, Emergency Medicine preferred. This person will have spent several years managing a program or set of programs within an academic medicine setting, with direct exposure to residency and fellowship programs. Their background should include experience in onboarding and offboarding physicians-in-training, ACGME requirement knowledge/experience is essential, as this role requires ensuring operational the success of key programs in partnership with Physician leaders. In terms of competencies, the candidate should excel in change management, guiding programs through organizational shifts while maintaining compliance and stakeholder engagement (as there are ever changing requirements for FM programs . They are adept at developing and standardizing processes that align with institutional policies and accreditation requirements, ensuring efficiency and accuracy.

Job Summary:

Manages small-to-medium sized projects/programs or components with multiple workstreams and strategic business goals across departments, functions, or regions with responsibility and accountability for achieving program outcomes from initiation to close-out in an extended or open-ended time frame. Leads the work of project/program teams by coordinating and monitoring internal and/or external resources. Monitors and identifies project/program risks, issues, and trigger events by executing mitigation plans and strategies. Monitors compliance of project/program activities by ensuring project/program plans and team members adhere to relevant policies and procedures. Ensures the alignment, buy-in, coordination, and support of diverse stakeholders. Assists with reviews of vendor performance levels, ensures service level agreements are met, and supports contract negotiations with vendors.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
• Manages small-to-medium sized projects/programs or components with multiple workstreams and strategic business goals across departments, functions, or regions with responsibility and accountability for achieving program outcomes from initiation to close-out in an extended or open-ended time frame. Develops, analyzes, and executes less complex project/program plans which include scope identification and management, schedule, inter-dependencies, and resource forecast. Manages project/program financials for small-to-medium size programs. Monitors project/program performance to ensure initiatives effectively deliver maximum long term value or benefit to the organization, and makes adjustments as needed in an uncertain environment where scope may be fluid. Manages project/program activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the program. Allocates resources, establishes schedules, and makes task assignments.
• Leads the work of project/program team members. Requests and coordinates internal and/ or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and program demands. Promotes program vision and objectives with project/program team.
• Monitors and identifies project/program risks, issues, and trigger events by executing mitigation plans and strategies; and resolving or escalating risks or issues as appropriate.
• Monitors adherence of project/program activities to policies and procedures by ensuring plans and team members follow KP, departmental, and/or business line policies and procedures.
• Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders by building rapport with stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and management; and clarifying accountability and authority across stakeholders. Identifies and works closely with key stakeholders. Ensures all appropriate stakeholders are represented and included. Provides insight to key stakeholders and project/program sponsors by developing goals, setting the prioritization of deliverables, discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. program change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for program delivery. Communicates tough issues to stakeholders while maintaining an independent opinion, providing recommendations, delivering presentations, and providing reports to stakeholders.
• Assists with reviews of vendor performance levels and ensures service level agreements are met. Supports the contract negotiation process with vendors and reviews project/program invoices submitted by vendors for accuracy.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Applied Data Analysis
• Change Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Financial Acumen
• Managing Diverse Relationships
• Project Management Tools
• Quality Assurance Process
• Risk Assessment
• Service Focus
• Strategic Program Management

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and minimum three (3) years project management experience OR Minimum six (6) years experience in project management or a directly related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two (2) years experience working with database software (e.g., Access).
• Two (2) years experience working with data analysis software (e.g., Minitab, QI Macros, Tableau, etc.).