Program Manager - Cancer Network

Program Manager with The Cancer Network

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is a leading institution focused on cancer care, research, education, and prevention. The Cancer Network supports programs that improve access to cancer prevention, screening, education, and treatment services through collaborations with healthcare providers, community organizations, and research partners. The Program Manager plays a key role in supporting cervical cancer prevention initiatives through grant-funded programs, research activities, and operational oversight.

The Program Manager manages the administrative and operational aspects of a portfolio of grants for the Program for Reducing Cervical Cancer. The Program Manager collaborates closely with researchers, clinicians, healthcare providers, patient navigators, and external partners to support project implementation, reporting, and program objectives. This Program Manager role supports initiatives focused on cervical cancer prevention in resource-limited settings, primarily throughout Texas.

The ideal candidate will be bilingual in English and Spanish and have experience in a clinical healthcare setting, including working directly with providers, healthcare operations, billing processes, data collection, and program reporting. Experience utilizing databases such as REDCap is highly valued.

Salary Range\: Minimum $79,000 – Midpoint $99,000 – Maximum $119,000
Work Location\: The Medical Center

Why Us?
This role offers the opportunity to support impactful cancer prevention initiatives across Texas while building expertise in grant administration, healthcare operations, project management, and stakeholder engagement. The position provides exposure to strategic programs, cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision making, and operational leadership that support continued professional growth within UT MD Anderson.

• Lead grant-funded cervical cancer prevention initiatives.
• Expand experience in healthcare operations and project management.
• Partner with researchers, clinicians, providers, and community organizations.
• Develop expertise in program reporting, data analysis, and grant management.
• Strengthen leadership and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Support initiatives that improve access to care and patient outcomes.

Responsibilities
Project Management
• Manage assigned relationships and projects and serve as an integrator of information across departments, divisions, and external partner organizations
• Represent UT MD Anderson as a liaison between external collaborators and institutional experts
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with healthcare organizations, community partners, and academic professionals
• Utilize project management tools, methodologies, and techniques to coordinate activities and deliverables
• Identify, analyze, and manage project risks and develop mitigation plans
• Escalate barriers and implement solutions to support project success
• Integrate project components and analyze data from institutional, vendor, and partner sources
• Contribute to annual budget planning and develop project-specific budgets as needed
• Apply knowledge of the healthcare continuum in project development and implementation

Operational Management
• Manage daily research and capacity-building activities associated with the Global Oncology Program
• Support planning, operations, budgeting, development, production, dissemination, and implementation of project components and materials
• Manage grant and project timelines, deliverables, milestones, and long- and short-term goals
• Develop and maintain process maps and operating procedures
• Create meeting agendas, document meeting minutes, track action items, and coordinate follow-up activities
• Create and maintain shared folders and information repositories that facilitate collaboration and information exchange

Reporting & Data Management
• Monitor project implementation, progress, outcomes, and impact
• Lead development, coordination, quality review, and timely submission of internal and external reports
• Prepare bi-weekly reports, presentations, and project updates
• Collect, analyze, track, and report project and program data
• Coordinate reporting activities and data collection efforts with patient navigators, providers, clinicians, and stakeholders
• Track project milestones, execution metrics, and strategic priorities
• Create tools and templates to support program reporting and project management needs
• Prepare presentation materials and stakeholder communications
• Utilize data management systems and databases, including REDCap when applicable

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
• Coordinate communications and activities among researchers, clinicians, providers, patient navigators, community organizations, academic partners, and collaborators
• Facilitate knowledge transfer and information exchange across teams and organizations
• Communicate project status, timelines, deliverables, and priorities to stakeholders
• Build and maintain effective working relationships that support project success

Service & Professional Competencies
• Encourage collaboration and teamwork across multidisciplinary groups
• Build and maintain professional relationships and networks
• Demonstrate active listening and responsiveness to stakeholder feedback
• Communicate clearly through written and verbal communications
• Demonstrate initiative, adaptability, accountability, and a results-oriented approach
• Apply awareness of healthcare, technological, social, and economic trends to program objectives
• Provide service in a safe, courteous, accountable, efficient, and innovative manner
• Adhere to institutional policies, procedures, and standards of conduct

Other duties as assigned