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Job Description

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children's!

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been named to the Honor Roll in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals 2025-2026” rankings . When you join our team, you’ll gain access to our groundbreaking biomedical research facilities and sophisticated medical education programs. We offer learning programs, tuition reimbursement and performance-improvement projects so you can achieve certifications and degrees while gaining the knowledge and experience needed to advance your career.

What will you be doing in this role?

The Program Manager plans, organizes, directs, and manages all aspects of a mid to large scale recognized organizational program. Provides leadership, guidance, and direction for day-to-day operations and administrative activities, including the authority to make independent decisions regarding program operations, administration, and governance. Leads and/or contributes to the short-term and long-term strategic planning, design, development and implementation of program objectives, processes and standards. May supervise staff as it relates to the overall management of the program.

Note: A program is an ongoing organizational initiative with defined objectives and scope, but without a defined end or completion date.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

+ Oversees and/or manages the assigned program and has authority for day-to-day program operations & administration. May be responsible for program development or expansion. Plans and implements program operations, determines and develops governance, processes and/or guidelines, coordinates program activities and timelines, and determines and organizes resources to meet program objectives.

+ May identify program participants and lead cross-functional teams in the program administration, maintenance or expansion.

+ Collaborates with internal and external key stakeholders including other departments, leaders across the organization, representatives from external agencies/organizations to provide guidance, resolve issues, grow the program, and/or implement processes and/or solutions. Identifies and defines any logistics, action items, changes, or information needed to effectively manage the program.

+ Identifies growth opportunities and further efficiencies that impact the program and/or departments success and aids in development of strategic plans to achieve objectives. Evaluates feasibility, forecasting financial impact and providing recommendations or making decisions to support the program's success. Works with internal/external collaborators to maintain and further develop program growth, community outreach activities, as well as relationship building and maintenance.

+ Researches and analyzes data for evaluating performance of program or program operations, including quality assurance and trends. Makes recommendations to leadership and/or implements program changes based on findings. Provides data and/or summary findings to program participants, collaborators, leadership, and/or cross-functional teams.

+ Evaluates requests for program exceptions or changes, and determines response, escalating as necessary.

+ Assesses communication & training needs, develops and implements any applicable communication, education, training, on-boarding and/or mentorship pertaining to the program. Provides regular communication to departments and organizational leaders. Notifies relevant parties of any program changes May work with cross-functional teams across multiple departments to develop communication and training materials.

+ In conjunction with leadership, responsible for planning, monitoring, and managing program fiscal budgets and financials, and resolves or raises up issues.

+ Maintains data system integrity and ensures QA measures are followed based on departmental standard operating procedures. May provide ad hoc reporting to support recommendations observed through trend analysis for future planning and enhancements.

+ Monitors program to ensure appropriate governance & compliance with local, state and federal laws; accreditation, professional and regulatory agency standards and licensure requirements. Maintains staff and program compliance with organizational policies and procedures.

+ May manage staff and/or lead the work of others.

Qualifications

Educational & Experience Requirements:

+ High School Diploma/GED required. Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare, Management, Business or related field preferred

+ Five (5) years of management, program or project management, or related experience required. Prior experiencing managing staff is strongly preferred.

+ Clinical research certification (SOCRA or ACRP) preferred.

+ Knowledgeable of clinical research protocols & research finance is helpful.

About Us

Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.

About the Team

Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.

**Req ID** : 12606

**Working Title** : Program Manager - Guerin Children's - Research Operations - Full-Time, Hybrid

**Department** : Childrens Health Institute

**Business Entity** : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

**Job Category** : Administrative

**Job Specialty** : Administrative

**Overtime Status** : EXEMPT

**Primary Shift** : Day

**Shift Duration** : 8 hour

**Base Pay** : $100,110.40 - $160,180.80

Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.