Publications Program Manager

Job Title: Executive Secretariat Program Manager, Publications and Issuances

Location: Bethesda, MD (On-Site)

Company: BLN
24

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Position Overview:

BLN
24 is seeking an organized, detail-oriented Executive Secretariat Program Manager to support publications, issuances, and project coordination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC). This position combines responsibility for managing official documents throughout their lifecycle with planning, tracking, and coordinating projects that support hospital leadership and administrative operations.

The successful candidate will guide policies, administrative instructions, procedures, and related forms through development, stakeholder review, approval, publication, and periodic updates. The role also requires managing schedules, dependencies, action items, and competing priorities across multiple directorates. Experience supporting the Defense Health Agency, military healthcare organizations, or military treatment facilities is preferred.

• Manage the lifecycle of official publications and issuances, including development, coordination, review, approval, dissemination, revision, supersession, and cancellation.
• Review documents for clarity, completeness, formatting, consistency, and alignment with applicable organizational guidance.
• Coordinate clinical, legal, safety, administrative, and leadership reviews, consolidating feedback and helping document owners resolve comments.
• Ensure policies, procedures, instructions, and associated forms remain consistent and properly linked.
• Maintain an organized publications repository with accurate version control, approval records, review dates, and document status.
• Identify publications approaching review deadlines and coordinate timely updates with responsible offices.
• Develop and maintain templates, preparation instructions, and submission checklists that help directorates produce complete review packages.
• Support executive correspondence, records, and forms management during absences, workload surges, and other assigned needs.
• Prepare complete, decision-ready packages for Government review and approval.

• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverable trackers for assigned publications and administrative initiatives.
• Coordinate multiple concurrent projects, identifying dependencies, required decisions, resource needs, and potential delays.
• Maintain action, risk, issue, and decision logs with clear owners and due dates.
• Facilitate working sessions and stakeholder meetings, document decisions, and follow up on outstanding actions.
• Monitor progress against agreed schedules and elevate issues requiring leadership attention.
• Prepare status reports and briefings covering completed work, upcoming deadlines, overdue actions, risks, and recommended next steps.
• Coordinate changes in priorities and scope with Government stakeholders and communicate their effects on schedules and deliverables.
• Identify opportunities to improve document routing, review cycles, tracking, and collaboration across directorates

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least five years of relevant…