program manager

American  

[proh-gram man-i-jer, -gruhm] / ˈproʊ græm ˈmæn ɪ dʒər, -grəm /

noun

1. a person who is in charge of a set of related projects in a company or organization.

   She has advanced her professional career as an engineer and program manager.

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Etymology

Origin of program manager

First recorded in 2010–15

Example Sentences

Hotak, 38, is an Afghan immigrant who served as a program manager at refugee resettlement organization Lao Family Community Development until layoffs due to federal cuts forced him out of work in May.

From Los Angeles Times

Carbon capture is “tied for better or worse to the fossil-fuel industry,” while other fields are more heavily associated with “addressing the climate crisis,” said Anna Littlefield, a carbon-capture program manager at the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines who previously worked as a geologist for Occidental and Anadarko Petroleum.

From MarketWatch

Seventy miles south, Monterey is the state’s third district to take a different tack by buying an existing building, according to Sara Hinkley, California program manager of the Center for Cities and Schools at the University of California, Berkeley.

From The Wall Street Journal

The park has a small nursery of its own, but after contending with significant damage from large fires in recent years, officials want an arsenal of plants to respond efficiently, said Patrick Emblidge, the land trust’s plant conservation program manager.

From Los Angeles Times

According to Sandra Chang, Cultural Competency Unit Program Manager at Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, a language needs at least 3,000 Medi-Cal beneficiary speakers in a given area for it to be considered a threshold language, which triggers such requirements.

From Los Angeles Times