Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SMX Services & Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Program Manager to lead overall performance and coordination for NIH data access and data linkage services. The role involves managing staffing, schedules, quality control, and executive-level reporting while ensuring compliance with federal data security and privacy obligations.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall program execution and coordinate across BPA and call order workstreams
• Serve as senior interface with NIH/NIA stakeholders, COR, CO, technical leads, data users, and partner organizations
• Manage staffing plans, onboarding coordination, key personnel continuity, and team performance
• Maintain program schedules, risk registers, issue logs, action trackers, and corrective action plans
• Oversee deliverable quality, timeliness, and compliance with contract requirements
• Support program management reviews, status reports, meeting materials, dashboards, and performance summaries
• Coordinate technical, analytical, security, privacy, and user support teams
• Ensure work is performed with awareness of federal data security, privacy, FISMA, FedRAMP, ATO, CUI, HSPD-12/PIV, CMS data, and data use agreement obligations
• Communicate program status, risks, issues, and decisions clearly to customer and internal leadership

Skills

• U.S. citizenship required
• Experience managing federal IT, data, health research, cloud, analytics, or technical support programs
• Knowledge of federal and NIH security policies, procedures, standards, and methodologies
• Knowledge of federal data security and data management procedures
• Experience managing projects of similar size and scope
• Experience with risk management, quality assurance, customer reporting, and staff coordination
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to pass required NIH/HHS suitability or public trust processing
• NIH, HHS, CMS, public health, or research data environment experience
• Experience with CMS data, data linkage, data use agreements, data access review, data governance, or privacy-sensitive datasets
• Experience supporting multi-cloud or cloud data platform environments
• PMP, CISSP, CISM, SANS GSNA, or comparable certification
• Experience with ATO, FISMA, FedRAMP, CUI, Section 508, HSPD-12/PIV, or federal security documentation
• Degree or advanced degree in health services, social sciences, economics, behavioral research, bioinformatics, information systems, or related field

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