Senior Program Manager – Strategic Planning & Analytics

Senior Program Manager – Strategic Planning & Analytics

Bethesda, Maryland

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Senior Program Manager – Strategic Planning & Analytics
. The Senior Program Manager will provide strategic, analytical, and program leadership to support-wide strategic planning, program evaluation, performance measurement, business intelligence, enterprise reporting, and executive decision-making.

This is a highly visible role requiring an experienced professional who can independently take an ambiguous leadership or organizational question, determine what evidence is needed, establish an analytical approach, assemble and validate information from multiple sources, identify gaps and limitations, and translate findings into clear, defensible recommendations for senior leadership.

The position will work across administrative, scientific, financial, workforce, operational, programmatic, and evaluation information to identify trends, risks, opportunities, duplication, performance gaps, and implications for organizational decision-making.

A primary focus will be helping determine how to best identify, assess, and leverage evidence to develop a comprehensive 10-year strategic report covering the 2017–2027 Strategic Plan.

The Senior Program Manager will serve as the day-to-day analytic project lead for this effort, coordinating evidence collection across various organizations, reconciling information from multiple sources, assessing the quality and strength of available evidence, conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, and developing leadership-ready findings and recommendations.

The role will also help strengthen longer-term performance measurement and analytical capabilities by improving data governance, standardizing metrics, developing reusable analytical processes, and establishing sustainable approaches to enterprise reporting and strategic monitoring.

Just as importantly, this person will help prepare for the next strategic plan by developing the systems, metrics, processes, and governance mechanisms needed to continuously measure progress and capture evidence throughout the life of the plan.

This is a full-time opportunity supporting NLM in Bethesda, MD.

• Lead strategic planning, program evaluation, performance measurement, and analytical initiatives supporting OSI and NLM leadership.
• Serve as the day-to-day analytic project lead for development of the NLM 2017–2027 Strategic Plan Summary.
• Develop an evidence-based approach for assessing progress, accomplishments, outcomes, and lessons learned across the 10-year strategic-plan period.
• Coordinate evidence collection across NLM Divisions, Offices, and Centers and reconcile information from multiple organizational and data sources.
• Assess data quality, completeness, comparability, and limitations and identify evidence gaps, conflicting information, or unsupported conclusions.
• Conduct quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method analyses, including trend analysis, benchmarking, forecasting, portfolio analysis, and other organizational assessments.
• Develop executive-ready reports, dashboards, visualizations, briefing materials, and recommendations.
• Develop performance measures, indicators, baselines, evaluation approaches, and monitoring frameworks aligned with strategic goals.
• Translate lessons from the 2017–2027 assessment into recommendations for NLM's next strategic planning cycle.
• Proactively establish systems and processes for ongoing evidence collection, performance monitoring, data ownership, reporting, and strategic-plan progress reviews.
• Manage multiple work streams, schedules, milestones, risks, stakeholders, reviews, and deliverables.
• Improve the organization, documentation,…