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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday- Friday 8am- 5pm
Posted Date
01/21/2026
Salary Range: $95400 - 208300 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
indefinite
Job #
28316

Primary Duties and Responsibilities


Under the direction of the Director of Clinical Epidemiology & Infection Prevention, the Program Manager leads the implementation and sustainability of hand hygiene and antimicrobial stewardship initiatives across UCLA Health. This role partners closely with Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship medical leadership to advance organizational goals related to safety, quality, and high reliability.

You will:

  • Lead systemwide hand hygiene and antimicrobial stewardship initiatives
  • Develop and implement assessment, measurement, and improvement protocols
  • Coordinate analytics, reporting, and data-driven requests across departments
  • Collaborate with clinical and operational teams to operationalize and sustain CEIP/ASP goals at the department level
  • Utilize Lean and performance improvement methodologies to identify and drive process improvements
  • Manage program metrics, reports, and standard work
  • Facilitate and lead multidisciplinary performance improvement teams
  • Coordinate analytics, reporting, and data-driven requests across departments
  • Collaborate with clinical and operational teams to operationalize and sustain CEIP/ASP goals at the department level
  • Utilize Lean and performance improvement methodologies to identify and drive process improvements
  • Manage program metrics, reports, and standard work
  • Facilitate and lead multidisciplinary performance improvement teams


Salary Range: $95,400 - $208,300/annually

Job Qualifications

We’re seeking a detail-oriented individual with:

Required:

  • A Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience
  • Three or more years of experience managing increasingly complex projects or scopes of work
  • Strong knowledge of infection prevention and control principles, with specific emphasis on hand hygiene practices and antimicrobial stewardship in healthcare settings
  • Understanding of healthcare quality improvement frameworks including performance improvement, high reliability principles, and zero-harm initiatives
  • Working knowledge of regulatory, accreditation, and institutional requirements, including HIPAA, Department of Public Health, The Joint Commission, and organizational policies related to infection prevention and patient safety
  • Proficiency in Lean methodology, process improvement tools, and change management principles to drive sustainable operational improvements
  • Ability to plan, manage, execute complex programs and projects, including scope development, timelines, resources, budgets, and deliverables across multiple initiatives
  • Experience with data management, analysis, reporting, including interpretation of performance metrics, dashboards, and program outcomes to support decision-making
  • Ability to conduct assessments (e.g. current-state analysis, gap analysis, literature review, and risk assessments to identify improvement opportunities in inpatient and outpatient settings
  • Strong facilitation and coaching skills to lead interdisciplinary performance improvement teams and engage frontline staff and clinical leaders
  • Proven ability to develop and implement standard work and sustainability plans to ensure long term adoption of hand hygiene and antimicrobial stewardship interventions.
  • Effective stakeholder engagement and collaboration, including effective partnership with medical directors, executive leadership, quality teams, and operational departments
  • Ability to identify, analyze, and mitigate program and project risks, while balancing competing priorities in a complex healthcare environment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly to diverse audiences, including executive leadership, medical staff, and frontline teams
  • skills, with the ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, and manage multiple concurrent initiatives

Preferred:

  • A Master’s degree
  • A Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
  • One or more years of experience in project management in a healthcare environment