Field Healthcare Program Manger

Company Description

IHMS USA, Inc. provides medical services to some of the world’s most vulnerable populations, including individuals and families who are migrating, displaced, or affected by conflict, disaster, or disease. For more than 20 years, IHMS has delivered compassionate, high-quality healthcare services across the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, IHMS USA focuses on supporting communities across the Western Hemisphere while drawing on the global experience and best practices developed by IHMS teams around the world.

Our work is driven by a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and patient-centered care in complex environments. To support this mission, IHMS has developed accredited and compliant management systems that help ensure quality care while tracking and coordinating every aspect of patient health services. These systems promote transparency, strengthen safeguarding practices, and provide near real-time visibility into clinical operations.

We understand that many of the individuals we serve are navigating difficult and uncertain circumstances. That’s why our care model includes access to comprehensive behavioral health services when needed, ensuring patients receive both medical and emotional support.

For healthcare professionals, working with IHMS means being part of a mission-driven team dedicated to making a meaningful impact. Our teams operate around the world and stand ready to provide compassionate care wherever it is needed most. For more information, please visit: www.ihmsusa.us.

Job Description

This position is eligible for an additional sign-on bonus. 

The Field Healthcare Program Manager is responsible for overseeing the planning, implementation, evaluation, and day-to-day operational direction of health care programs within the facility to support patient care, operational efficiency, mission readiness, and compliance. The role coordinates resources, manages budgets, supports multidisciplinary operations, and helps ensure health care services and related programs are delivered in accordance with applicable policies, accreditation requirements, laws, regulations, and contract requirements. 

The position provides program direction across administrative and clinical support functions, maintains operational oversight through supporting managers, monitors program performance and required reporting, and supports safe, effective, and compliant health care operations in a hazardous-duty environment.   

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement health care programs that address patient needs, improve care delivery, and support facility goals. 
• Oversee multiple projects within the program to ensure they are completed on time, within budget, and to required standards. 
• Develop and manage program budgets, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and compliance with financial policies. 
• Collaborate with health care professionals, administrators, supporting managers, senior management, and outside agencies to support successful program execution and alignment with strategic and operational objectives. 
• Track and evaluate program performance using key metrics and implement improvements based on data analysis and feedback. 
• Ensure programs adhere to regulatory requirements, accreditation requirements, and health care standards, maintaining compliance with applicable laws and policies. 
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with program implementation and operation. 
• Prepare and present reports on program progress, outcomes, mission-related data, and financial status to senior management and relevant stakeholders. 
• Lead and support program staff and supporting managers, fostering a collaborative and productive working environment. 
• Ensure the organization and delivery of health care in the facility maintains compliance with applicable policies, accreditation standards, laws, and regulations. 
• Collaborate with the Clinical Director and Nurse Manager, as part of the triad of leadership, to establish processes and procedures that support consistent high-quality standards of care accessible to patients. 
• Serve as the final approving authority for the facility schedule to support the mission. 
• Maintain collaborative working relationships with outside agencies and other applicable stakeholders. 
• Maintain responsibility for planning, directing, organizing, coordinating, and controlling overall administrative operations through supporting managers with technical expertise in their respective areas. 
• Exercise high-level judgment, analysis, and decision-making when delegating tasks and responsibilities to the multidisciplinary workforce. 
• Provide program direction to suppo