Program Operations Manager

General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Posted Date

10/16/2026

Salary Range: $90720.00 - 194040.00 Annually

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

Indeffinite

Job #

33608

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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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

Job Qualifications

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Required:

• Bachelor's Degree or 5-7 years of experience and/or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 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.
• Exceptional writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ability to seek out and learn new policies, procedures, and software to advance the mission of the program/project.
• Ability to train new program/project managers and other staff within and external to the unit.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate medical, policy and administrative information in English.

Preferred:

• Master's Degree or 3-5 years of experience

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.