Program Manager - Alzheimer's Disease Center (Clinical Innovation and Implementation)

Department: SOM KC The Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC) ----- Alzheimer's Disease Center Staff Position Title: Program Manager - Alzheimer's Disease Center (Clinical Innovation and Implementation) Job Family Group: Professional Staff Job Description Summary: The Program Manager, Alzheimer's Disease Center is a university-based leadership role within the ADRC, positioned at the intersection of research and clinical care. This role is responsible for advancing new models of brain health and dementia care—translating research-derived approaches into scalable, real-world clinical practice. The purpose of the role is to bridge academic discovery and clinical execution—ensuring that ADRC innovations are implemented with rigor, adopted in real-world settings, and translated into scalable models that improve access, timeliness, and quality of dementia care. This role operates across both research and clinical environments, translating structured protocols into workflows that function effectively within high-volume, real-world clinic settings. The Program Manager partners closely with frontline teams to align new models of care with how care is actually delivered, adapting implementation approaches as needed while preserving the integrity of the program. Job Description: Job Duties: Lead execution of BHCA as a clinic-embedded innovation program. Translate research concepts and protocols into clinical workflows. Maintain alignment between research aims and real-world clinical implementation. Work directly with clinic teams to ensure new workflows align with real-world care delivery patterns and constraints. Coordinate training programs across primary care and specialty clinics. Support onboarding and early adoption of new workflows and tools. Work with clinical leaders and champions to drive engagement. Reinforce implementation approaches that are intuitive and workable within everyday clinical practice. Serve as the central operational hub across team. Run meeting cadence, agendas, and follow-through. Track dependencies, risks, and progress across workstreams. Creating and maintaining a protocol or documentation of best practices/procedures for scalability and dissemination. Ensure development and tracking of core program metrics. Create live and summary reports for stakeholders that support appropriate project evaluation. Use data and feedback to drive ongoing refinement of the program. This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. It is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, duties, and assignments. Furthermore, job duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Required Qualifications Work Experience: Four (4) years of experience in clinical research operations or ambulatory clinical settings, implementation, or program management. Education may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis. Experience managing multi-team programs. Experience working with EHR-derived data and reporting outputs. Preferred Qualifications Education: Clinical or advanced degree (RN, MSN, DNP, MPH, MHA, or related). Certifications/Licenses: Clinical licensure or registration. Informatics or data science certificate. Work Experience: Five (5) years of experience in clinical research operations or ambulatory clinical settings, implementation, or program management. Experience in the implementation of science frameworks (RE-AIM, CFIR). Experience collaborating with informatics, biostatistics, and data science teams. Experience with creating EMR-based reporting and performance dashboards. Skills Organization Communication Collaboration Program management Interpersonal skills Comprehensive Benefits Package: Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html Employee Type: Regular Time Type: Full time Rate Type: Salary Compensation Statement: The pay range listed for this position is determined by our compensation program using market data and salary benchmarking. A combination of factors is considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, education, experience and training, qualifications relative to the requirements of the position, and funding. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, a reasonable estimate for the starting pay range will be the minimum to midpoint of the posted range, taking into account the combination of factors listed above. Pay Range: $60,800.00 - $91,200.00 Minimum $60,800.00 Midpoint $76,000.00 Maximum $91,200.00 The mission of the University of Kansas Medical Center is to improve lives and communities in Kansas and beyond through innovation in education, research, and health care. The University of Kansas Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, age, protected veteran or disability status, marital status, parental status, or genetic information. http://policy.ku.edu/IOA/nondiscrimination https://kumc-publicpoliciesandprocedures.policystat.com/policy/8446235/latest/ Under Kansas state law, certain KUMC positions are subject to disability preference. 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