Program Operations Manager
Los Angeles, CAJob$91–194K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
UCLA Health’s Department of Medicine seeks a Program Operations Manager to lead operations supporting departmental goals. The role plans and executes community initiatives, manages partnerships and stakeholder engagement, oversees deliverables, data collection, reporting, and communications, and provides operational and administrative support. It also ensures regulatory compliance. The ideal candidate demonstrates project management and leadership skills and works independently and collaboratively.
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Description
The Department of Medicine is seeking to hire a Program Operations Manager to lead and oversee program operations that support the department's mission and strategic objectives. This position is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing community-based initiatives; managing partnerships and stakeholder engagement; overseeing program deliverables, data collection, reporting, and communications; providing operational and administrative support; and ensuring compliance with UCLA, state, and federal regulations. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate strong project management and leadership skills, and work effectively both independently and collaboratively to advance program goals and community impact.
Annual range: $90,720.00-$194,040.00
Qualifications
Required:
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Bachelor's Degree or 5-7 years of experience and/or equivalent combination of education and experience
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Ability to work independently and also have interpersonal skills to work with teams, provide training, and supervise staff 1+ years' experience of supervising laboratory personnel and operations.
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Exceptional writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables.
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Experience communicating effectively and professionally and working with a variety of internal and external partners, including UCLA administrators, outside funders, policy makers and community representatives.
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Strong organizational skills to successfully work on and track complex programs involving short deadlines and multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple teams to achieve program/project mission and goals.
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Working knowledge of program/project development, evaluation, creating datasets, financial management and reporting, research principles including CITI training, grant writing and proposal submission, University procedures and policies, program/project related federal and state regulations.
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Ability to seek out and learn new policies, procedures, and software to advance the mission of the program/project.
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Ability to train new program/project managers and other staff within and external to the unit.
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Demonstrated ability to communicate medical, policy and administrative information in English.
Preferred:
- Master's Degree or 3-5 years of experience
UCLA Health welcomes all individuals, without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin or disabilities, and we proudly look to each person’s unique achievements and experiences to further set us apart.
How this job compares
Set against the 10,762 open Program Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$91–194K/yr
- California median$148–221K/yr1,056 salary ranges
- US median$127–201K/yr7,751 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $142K, is 24% below the California median midpoint ($188K) — in the lowest quarter of Program Management salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,327 open Program Management jobs in California and 10,762 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Program Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 9,219 postings).
- Education
- 4,200 of the 10,762 open Program Management jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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