MCES Special Programs Manager - MCES- MS Center for Emergency Services
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MSFull-timePosted 3w agoStill listed today
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The MCES Special Programs Manager collaborates in coordinating, managing, and overseeing project activities and resources for the Mississippi Center for Emergency Services. Projects may include grant applications and review, marketing, outreach management, and efforts to expand or enhance service lines. The role establishes project management processes to deliver requirements effectively, within budget, established standards, and specified time frames.
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Job Requisition ID: R00050481
Job Category: Clerical and Customer Service
Organization: MS Center for Emergency Services
Location/s: Main Campus Jackson
Job Title: MCES Special Programs Manager - MCES- MS Center for Emergency Services
Job Summary: To collaborate in the coordination, management, and oversight of activities and resources for an assigned project. To establish and implement project management processes to ensure that project requirements are delivered effectively, within budget, in compliance with established standards, and within the specified time frame. Projects may include but are not limited to grants applications, grant review, marketing, outreach management, as well as other ventures to expand or enhance MCES service lines.
Education & Experience Education and Experience Required: Degree (Associate's or Bachelor's) and two (2) years' work experience in project or operations management
Certifications, Licenses, or Registration required: N/A
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Knowledge of project management processes. Skilled in the use of personal computers and related software applications. Verbal and written communication skills. Interpersonal skills to interact with a wide range of constituencies. Ability to present information and respond to inquiries. Ability to clarify project objectives, goals, and the roles and responsibilities of participants. Ability to organize and manage resources.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates in the day-to-day management of the operational aspects of a project and scope. Works with clients to identify project objectives and establish project parameters, budgets, deliverables, and deadlines.
- Develops project plans and cost projections and recommends changes as appropriate; identifies and allocates resources and prioritizes tasks to ensure that objectives are met.
- Aligns project activities with organizational objectives; ensures that project outcomes equate to organizational success.
- Coordinates the development of policies and procedures to meet project requirements.
- Interfaces with relevant parties to resolve problems, maintain progress, and maintain mutual interaction of respected parties to reduce the risk of failure and ensure success of project.
- Informs management of key activities and makes periodic progress reports; maintains and ensures accuracy of project documents and reports.
- Responds to inquiries and explains MCES program activities.
- Oversees and participates in collection of data and the preparation of applicable reports to support program activities and grants
- Creates and maintains relevant files and databases for grants.
- Develops and produce print and digital material for marketing, outreach and educational purposes.
- Develops, organizes and coordinates outreach activities.
- Assist with PSSD physicals through setup, registration and patient flow.
- When needed, provide onsite assistance at various outreach programs. Extended and overnight travel may be required.
- The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.
Physical and Environmental Demands Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, exposure to bio-hazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to offsite locations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, frequent work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, constant sitting, frequent standing, occasional twisting, and frequent walking.
Time Type: Full time
FLSA Designation/Job Exempt: Yes
Pay Class: Salary
FTE %: 100
Work Shift: Rotating
Benefits Eligibility:
Grant Funded: No
Job Posting Date: 10/15/2026
Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):
How this job compares
Set against the 11,040 open Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Mississippi median$115–210K/yr60 salary ranges
- US median$42–57/hr367 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 78 open Program Manager jobs in Mississippi and 11,040 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 9,520 postings).
- Education
- 4,361 of the 11,040 open Program Manager jobs (40%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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