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Program & Project Management Lead – Emerging Priorities
CompanyASRT, Inc.
LocationAtlanta
Work ModeOn Site
PostedAugust 24, 2026
About The Company
ASRT, Inc. is an 8(a) certified small business that offers services in health science, information technology, and other related fields to the federal government, state governments, the private sector, and other organizations domestically and internationally. Founded in 2017, our goal is to embark and charter new innovative science and technology-based solutions that help advance efforts made in the fields of health, science, and medicine.
ASRT's highly skilled and dedicated employees form the foundation for our success. Therefore, we proudly invest in employees to ensure that they are of the highest caliber and best fit to serve our clients. At the same time, our excellent benefits package, responsiveness to employee concerns and focus on supporting and investing in our employees enables us to attract and retain the most highly qualified candidates.
We seek individuals who are analytical, ambitious, determined, and take pride in their work. All of our experts must be able to work within a dynamic and professional environment that values each person's unique perspective. We provide a supportive environment that empowers individuals to grow and exercise their individuality. Our employees value ASRT as not simply a job, but as a career.
ASRT’s highly competitive benefits package, which is offered to full-time employees, includes:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan with Company Matching Contributions
- Employee Assistance Program
- Telemedicine – 24/7 access to Board Certified Physician
- Paid Time Off, Personal Time, and Holiday Pay
- Medical and Dependent Care - Flexible Spending Accounts
- Tuition and Training Reimbursement for Career Development
- Transportation Reimbursement for mass public transportation and vanpools
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About the Role
Description
JOB TITLE: Program & Project Management Lead – Emerging Priorities
POSITION NUMBER: 260821-0085-PPML-EP
POSITION LOCATION: Atlanta, GA, USA
TRAVEL: As required to fulfill the responsibilities of the position
ASRT is seeking a Program & Project Management Lead – Emerging Priorities to establish repeatable project-management processes that enable The Center for Disease Control and Prevention C(DC) to rapidly organize, prioritize, implement, and monitor emerging public-health initiatives. The role will translate emerging requirements into executable workplans, schedules, governance structures, dashboards, risk controls, communication processes, and change-management activities.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead project-management support for emerging CDC priorities.
- Develop repeatable approaches for identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing projects.
- Translate emerging requirements into project charters, workplans, milestones, activities, and ownership.
- Establish project schedules, milestones, dependencies, and governance.
- Develop dashboards for status, milestones, risks, issues, and executive decision-making.
- Maintain risk, issue, action, assumption, and decision logs.
- Develop project-management standards, templates, SOPs, checklists, and job aids.
- Develop and execute transition and change-management plans.
- Coordinate high-priority workgroups and stakeholder activities.
- Manage production calendars for significant events and communication products.
- Track leadership deadlines and communication-clearance activities.
- Identify project-management training and competency needs.
- Develop training materials and support adoption of standardized project-management practices.
- Provide management reporting, variance analysis, and corrective-action recommendations.
Requirements
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Public Health, or related discipline .
Preferred Education/Certification
- Master’s degree in Business Management or Public Health .
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred.
- Agile/Scrum certification desirable.
- Change-management certification desirable.
Minimum Experience
- 6 years of progressively responsible project-management experience.
- Experience managing complex Federal, public-health, healthcare, or professional-services projects.
- Demonstrated schedule, risk, quality, and stakeholder-management capability.
- Experience managing concurrent projects
Preferred Experience
- CDC/Health and Human Services (HHS) experience.
- Public-health emergency response or emerging-priority work.
- Dashboard development.
- Change management.
- Federal communication/clearance processes.
- PMO development or implementation.
- Experience supporting executive leadership and cross-functional workgroups.
Required Skills & Tools
- Project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/control, and closeout.
- Integrated schedule and milestone management.
- Dependency and critical-path management.
- Risk, issue, action, and decision tracking.
- Project governance and stakeholder management.
- Change and transition management.
- Dashboard and performance-report development.
- Production-calendar and deadline management.
- Executive-level reporting and briefing.
- PMO standards, templates, and process development.
- Training-needs assessment and job-aid development.
- Microsoft Project or comparable project-scheduling software.
- Microsoft Planner, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Power BI for project dashboards and performance reporting.
- Smartsheet or comparable project/work management platform.
- Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or comparable workflow/issue-management tools desirable.
- Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, and predictive project-management approaches.
Language Skills:
- The candidate must possess excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
REQUIREMENT: Must be a United States citizen or permanent resident or have authorization for employment in the United States.
SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.
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- To view all of our open positions and to apply to job openings in which you may be interested, please visit our Career page at https://www.asrtinc.com/careers.
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Key Skills
Project managementRisk managementStakeholder managementChange managementDashboard developmentGovernanceMicrosoft ProjectPower BIPublic healthStrategic planningProcess improvementAgileScrumData analysisCommunicationTraining development
Categories
Management & LeadershipHealthcareGovernment & Public SectorTechnologyConsulting
Job Information
📋Core Responsibilities
The Program & Project Management Lead will establish repeatable project-management processes to help the CDC organize and implement emerging public-health initiatives. This role involves translating requirements into executable workplans, managing project governance, and developing dashboards for executive decision-making.
📋Job Type
full time
📊Experience Level
5-10
💼Company Size
82
📊Visa Sponsorship
No
💼Language
English
🏢Working Hours
40 hours
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