Public Trust Eligibility Required About Aretum Aretum is a mission-driven organization committed to delivering innovative, technology-enabled solutions to our customers across defense, civilian, and homeland security sectors. Our teams work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation, helping agencies solve their most critical challenges. We believe in investing in our people and creating a culture where collaboration, inclusion, and professional growth are at the forefront. Job Summary Aretum is seeking a highly experienced Program Manager to lead delivery for the VA’s enterprise-wide Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy initiative. This program is mission-critical, integrating clinical polypharmacy software with VA enterprise cloud environments, security frameworks, and operational processes. The role requires a senior leader with demonstrated experience managing complex federal programs, navigating VA infrastructure, and driving outcomes across large technical and cross-functional teams. Responsibilities - Serve as the primary Aretum representative to VA leadership, COR, program offices, clinicians, and technical teams. - Oversee all phases of the program: pilot, enterprise rollout, full capability deployment, and option periods. - Coordinate across Aretum and subcontractors to ensure unified delivery - Lead efforts related to AWS cloud architecture, ATO compliance, and secure hosting — aligning with experience performing cloud modernization and architecture reviews. - Oversee architecture review processes, ensuring solutions comply with VA enterprise standards and cloud governance frameworks. - Manage multi-million-dollar program operations including schedule, resourcing, risk, budget oversight, KPI tracking, and contract deliverables. - Apply mature program management practices consistent with managing $50M+ programs and multi-disciplinary teams - Lead integration activities between Polypharmacy software, VA systems, cloud environments, and data platforms. - Direct testing, validation, performance improvement, and pilot success criteria defined in the QASP. - Drive organizational change strategies aligning with VA clinical operations, Veteran-facing experiences, and enterprise engineering teams. - Facilitate communications, training coordination, and adoption activities. - Define staffing needs; develop role descriptions; oversee interviews and onboarding. - Lead matrixed teams including cloud engineers, security SMEs, analysts, architects, and clinical-technical staff.

• Oversee all contract program management functions, including resource management across assigned projects and tasks. • Lead pre-award and post-award acquisition support activities, including acquisition strategy development, cost analysis, and market research. • Develop forecasting tools to support life cycle cost analysis, cost-benefit evaluations, and program budgeting. • Map end-to-end acquisition and contracting processes and contribute to the development of acquisition training manuals. • Oversee pre-award activities such as requirements gathering, drafting Performance Work Statements (PWS), developing Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs), and crafting acquisition strategies. • Support post-award tasks including contract monitoring, performance assessments, invoice review and processing, and ensuring successful contract execution. • Collaborate with government and internal stakeholders to optimize procurement processes and drive operational efficiencies.

• Oversee the entire MIPS process from communication to audit to submission • Coordinate with the regulatory quality assurance team to ensure compliance with all regulations • Educate MIPS customers on MIPS process and requirements • Conduct regular client meetings based on client needs and size • Regularly meet with the product team to relay customer feedback • Participate in the implementation to assure a seamless transition • Manage client engagement in MIPS annual audit process • Resolve support requests for clients according to product/contract SLAs

• Provide programmatic leadership to successfully plan, develop, implement, and manage a portfolio of restoration and forest resilience projects. • Facilitate collaborative efforts and manage complex funding mechanisms. • Supervise program staff and collaboratively work with NFF’s technical advisory teams and the U.S. Forest Service. • Support and supervise up to four staff by helping develop their scopes of work, provide networking and fundraising support, and professional development guidance. • Lead collaborative development of field team strategies and work plans. • Work directly with contractors, consultants, nonprofit organizations, agency partners, and/or private landowners to coordinate the on-the-ground implementation of stewardship projects. • Oversee the advertising, negotiation, and awarding of contracts for services related to project implementation. • Manage program and project budgets and reporting associated with agreements and contracts with federal, state, local governments, and contractor services. • Provide collaborative conservation expertise and facilitation support for priority regional initiatives. • Draft and revise meeting agendas and facilitation-related meeting materials. • Expand existing partnerships with local National Forest Service partners.