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

Department:

SOM KC The Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC)

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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 contrib