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Manages the full grant lifecycle for Kansas Arts Commission programs serving arts organizations. Responsibilities include developing guidelines, reviewing applications, coordinating panels, executing contracts, monitoring compliance, processing payments, closing grants, and reporting outcomes. The role also coordinates arts education initiatives, delivers professional development, builds statewide relationships, supports accessibility compliance under ADA and NEA regulations, and represents the agency at events and meetings. This is a primarily remote, full-time contract role with occasional travel within Kansas.

Leads defense programs from planning and development through qualification, production, delivery, and contract completion. Manages cost, schedule, technical, quality, contractual, and customer objectives while coordinating engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, finance, contracts, and test teams. Serves as a key interface with customers, government stakeholders, prime contractors, suppliers, and leadership. Oversees risks, program reviews, deliverables, scope changes, design and readiness reviews, proposals, negotiations, and growth opportunities for mission-critical defense hardware.

Manage planning, implementation, and evaluation of HIV navigation, testing, and linkage-to-care programs. Oversee staff, budgets, data collection, quality improvement, and community partnerships. Ensure adherence to clinical protocols, supervise outreach and testing services, promote prevention (PrEP/PEP), and support timely linkage and retention in HIV care.

Own day-to-day execution across multiple concurrent cross-functional programs. Develop detailed project plans, facilitate planning sessions, track risks and dependencies, resolve blockers, coordinate handoffs, maintain documentation in Notion, and provide portfolio health reporting. The role also helps establish repeatable project management practices in a remote-first startup environment.

Lead and coordinate WDS compliance programs across multiple domains (privacy, security, Responsible AI, FCPA, trade, accessibility). Establish governance, track risks and remediation, deliver executive reporting, drive process improvements and AI-enabled automation, and align cross-functional stakeholders to ensure compliance readiness and measurable outcomes.

Manage end-to-end battery material qualification programs for Chinese battery manufacturers and OEMs. Drive milestones from sampling through scale-up, align technical and commercial schedules, resolve quality and delivery issues, and coordinate R&D, Quality, Operations, Finance, and customer stakeholders. Maintain Mandarin and English communication continuity, support APQP/PPAP requirements, and organize customer audits, technical reviews, and executive visits across China and global manufacturing sites.

Lead end-to-end execution of data center operations programs, owning roadmaps, milestones, and SOPs. Drive hardware logistics, rack integration, and facility readiness, remove bottlenecks, manage program health reporting, risk mitigation, and cross-functional coordination to ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure and deliver data-driven insights to leadership.

Leads large, complex workforce initiatives and virtual teams through discovery, implementation, and business value delivery. Provides program leadership, strategic decision support, analysis, facilitation, change management, and thought partnership to sponsors and project teams. Develops scalable, user-centered solutions, coordinates cross-functional delivery, mentors others, and supports training and organizational change across a geographically dispersed healthcare organization.

Leads end-to-end execution of a U.S. Navy eCRM development, operations, and sustainment program. Owns cost, schedule, technical performance, cybersecurity, staffing, subcontractor oversight, Agile releases, compliance, deliverables, risk management, and customer satisfaction. Serves as the primary interface with Navy stakeholders and corporate leadership, manages cleared multidisciplinary teams, oversees Salesforce and cloud environments, supports transition activities, and contributes to portfolio growth and business development.

Oversees multiple strategic, interrelated projects and coordinates resources, dependencies, budgets, risks, and priorities across cross-functional teams. Establishes program governance, roadmaps, metrics, reporting, and operating cadences; communicates progress and recommendations to senior leadership. Leads organization-wide initiatives, change management, stakeholder alignment, and adoption activities while mentoring project managers and improving delivery processes, tools, and standards.

Lead technical program management for Department of Veterans Affairs AI strategy, governance, and operations initiatives. Coordinate cross-functional teams, manage plans, risks, resources, and performance metrics, develop governance documentation, and brief senior officials. The role requires translating complex AI concepts into actionable strategies aligned with federal policy and VA priorities.

Leads large-scale federal transition assistance programs serving military Service members worldwide. Oversees program execution, staffing, deployment, risk mitigation, quality assurance, stakeholder coordination, contractual deliverables, schedules, reporting, and compliance. Manages multidisciplinary teams across curriculum development, training, onsite support, data analysis, and modernization. This remote role requires occasional travel and includes federal government and DoD stakeholder engagement.

Leads the CCPI Data Analytics Support Services contract for the VA, overseeing multi-workstream delivery, stakeholder engagement, agile planning, resource allocation, reporting, governance, risk mitigation, and compliance. The role bridges program leadership with health informatics expertise across VA enterprise data systems, analytics environments, cloud platforms, and federal healthcare initiatives.

Leads end-to-end program management for the VA Office of Suicide Prevention’s Elevated Risk Care Management initiative. Coordinates VA clinical, policy, administrative, and IT stakeholders; manages plans, schedules, risks, reports, dashboards, milestones, and deliverables; monitors performance; recommends corrective actions; and prepares federal briefings, white papers, and Congressional reports. Serves as the liaison between the contractor team and VA leadership while supporting care-management integration across the VA healthcare system.

Lead end-to-end program management for the VA’s AI Citizen Developer Ecosystem. Responsibilities include planning, scheduling, governance, stakeholder coordination, risk and issue management, executive reporting, compliance with federal and VA requirements, and coordination of AI, data, clinical, and IT teams supporting healthcare transformation.

Leads a federal 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline awareness program, overseeing communications, marketing, advertising, media, outreach, events, budgets, deliverables, contract compliance, and multidisciplinary teams. Coordinates with SAMHSA and federal stakeholders, manages campaign performance and risk, and ensures activities support public health and behavior-change goals. The role requires extensive federal communications or public health program management experience and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Lead a federal AI program supporting the Veterans Health Administration by developing operating models, governance processes, field pilot structures, adoption playbooks, and AI center-of-excellence capabilities. Manage six workstreams, program costs, schedules, risks, evaluations, stakeholder communications, and governance meetings. Brief senior government leadership and support AI strategy development across multiple VHA business units.

Leads the planning, execution, oversight, and closeout of complex VA/VHA transformation initiatives. Manages scope, schedules, budgets, risks, deliverables, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional coordination. Provides status updates and strategic recommendations to senior VA leadership, maintains program management artifacts, monitors performance metrics, and drives continuous process improvement. The role supports DEAN digital and operational transformation efforts within a federal healthcare environment.

Leads complex, cross-functional technical programs across platform services and engineering. Responsibilities include translating strategic priorities into roadmaps, managing dependencies and risks, establishing governance and success metrics, driving executive reporting, resolving systemic execution issues, aligning technical stakeholders, supporting platform adoption, and improving delivery practices across interdependent teams.

Builds and stewards a global portfolio of transnational movement partners focused on food sovereignty, agroecology, climate justice, energy democracy, and the commons. The role coordinates cross-regional collaboration, movement convergence, funder and partner relationships, convenings, learning processes, strategic analysis, and communications. It synthesizes insights into reports and strategy, supports grantmaking and resource stewardship, represents the organization externally, and manages related travel and administrative responsibilities in a fully remote environment.

Lead complex technology programs from planning through delivery, managing technical requirements, resources, budgets, timelines, risks, and cross-functional stakeholders. Apply analytical reasoning, Agile practices, and enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to improve planning, governance, reporting, and risk synthesis. Partner with engineering, product, and business teams to align deliverables with organizational goals, validate AI-assisted outputs, and drive continuous improvement. A development or SRE background and experience leading programs are required; Generative AI development experience is preferred.

Leads complex, multi-site manufacturing facility optimization and decommissioning programs from planning through closure. Coordinates engineering, operations, maintenance, IT, EH&S, legal, real estate, finance, and vendors. Manages RFQs, procurement, contracts, budgets, schedules, risks, asset disposition, environmental compliance, change control, and audit-ready documentation while ensuring safe, compliant, and cost-effective execution.

Leads WGU’s enterprise apprenticeship portfolio, designing and scaling competency-based, work-based learning models across industries, states, and employer partners. Builds employer and workforce partnerships, translates apprenticeship regulations into program designs, oversees onboarding and sponsor/provider models, establishes KPIs, and drives continuous improvement through data. Serves as an external thought leader while coordinating academic, compliance, product, and partnership teams in a remote, matrixed environment.

Manage Curana Health’s AI transformation programs, including workflow redesign, AI training, competency assessments, and talent acquisition screening. Establish program infrastructure, operating rhythms, roadmaps, dependency tracking, reporting, decision logs, and ROI documentation. Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, vendors, tools, security requirements, and learning platforms while monitoring capacity, risks, milestones, and delivery outcomes. Support repeatable processes that enable AI adoption across healthcare operations.

Supports aerospace program execution through cross-functional coordination, performance monitoring, reporting, vendor communication, program reviews, issue resolution, risk management, change orders, procurement support, and contract compliance. Maintains program tools, processes, policies, and communications while helping ensure assigned projects meet schedule, budget, quality, and contractual objectives. Also supports onboarding and final inspection activities.