Sentara Healthcare

IT Program Manager - Office of the CIO

Norfolk, VA Full time

City/State

Norfolk, VA

Work Shift

First (Days)

Overview:

Overview

The IT Program Manager supports a broad range of initiatives within the Office of the CIO (OCIO), including program coordination, reporting, communication, and execution of enterprise IT transformation efforts. This role is responsible for overseeing and coordinating multiple interrelated technical projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives, strategic priorities, and program management best practices.

The IT Program Manager plays a key role in supporting presentation development, executive communications, resource planning, and financial tracking, including invoice processing and budget coordination. This position provides centralized governance and oversight across programs, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and successful execution of IT initiatives.

Working closely with IT leadership, project teams, and cross-functional stakeholders, the IT Program Manager monitors project dependencies, tracks performance, and consolidates reporting across initiatives. The role also supports the development and implementation of program management standards, templates, and methodologies while driving continuous improvement across the organization.

This position requires strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, influence stakeholders, and support enterprise-wide transformation efforts.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree (Preferred)
or

5 years of related experience in lieu of education

Certification/Licensure

PMP or related certification preferred

Experience

  • With a degree: Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in IT program/project management.

  • Experience in IT program or project management, supporting multiple concurrent initiatives

  • Experience with reporting, presentation development, and executive-level communication

  • Experience supporting resource planning, coordination, and financial tracking, including budgets or invoice processing

  • Ability to manage dependencies, risks, and timelines across multiple interrelated projects

  • Experience working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, with the ability to influence and coordinate without direct authority

Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career
Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
•Pet Insurance 
•Legal Resources Plan
•Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.


In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.