Title: Military Medics & Corpsmen (MMAC) Program Manager

State Role Title: Prog Admin Specialist II

Hiring Range: $70,000

Pay Band: 5

Agency: Dept of Veterans Services

Location: JAMES MONROE BUILDING

Agency Website: www.dvs.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Calling All Trailblazers in Military Medicine!

Are you a former Medic or Corpsman ready to lead the charge in transforming military healthcare experience into civilian career success? Or maybe you're a strategic powerhouse with a passion for workforce development and veteran advocacy?

The Military Medics and Corpsmen (MMAC) Program at the Virginia Department of Veterans Services is on the hunt for a dynamic Program Lead to take this groundbreaking initiative to the next level. You’ll be the face of MMAC—building partnerships, shaping career pathways, and connecting military-trained professionals to life-changing opportunities in Virginia’s healthcare system. 

Key Responsibilities:

•Leading the MMAC Program and supervision of MMAC staff.

•Hosting events, delivering presentations, and making MMAC a household name in healthcare circles and on military installations.

•Partnering with hospitals, clinics, training providers, colleges, and agencies to build seamless career transitions.

•Managing data, dashboards, and communications to recruit new partners applicants and more.

•Providing direct service support to employers seeking to recruit, hire, train and retain veterans with healthcare experience and job seekers.

•Establishing new pathways for clinical specialties, dentistry, advanced nursing, pharmacy, laboratory sciences, and more


What You Bring to the Table:

•Experience as a Medic or Corpsman or veteran with hands on clinical/healthcare experience.

•A knack for planning, analysis, and decision-making.

•Stellar communication skills and Tech-savviness with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access.

•The ability to juggle tasks, lead teams, and make things happen.

•A passion for helping others succeed, live work and raise a family in Virginia.


You’ll be part of a mission that matters - helping to shape the future of healthcare careers for Virginia’s veterans. Ready to lead with purpose? Apply now and help us turn military experience into civilian excellence, one career at a time. In this role, you will be eligible to telework one day per week.

Minimum Qualifications

• Comprehensive understanding of healthcare systems, workforce development, and credentialing/licensure processes

• Familiarity with federal, state, and local regulations related to healthcare service providers and facilities

• Knowledge of military healthcare roles and their civilian equivalents

• Experience in planning, analysis, and decision-making within programmatic or operational contexts

• Understanding of career pathway development and educational advancement strategies

• Strong oral and written communication skills for diverse audiences

• Strategic planning, program development, and stakeholder engagement

• Event coordination and public speaking

• Data analysis, reporting, and dashboard management

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access

• Ability to build and maintain partnerships with private sector hospitals and healthcare systems

• Ability to independently manage a high volume of work/clients

• Ability to interpret and apply complex regulations and policies to program operations

• Experience with presentation development and public speaking

• Experience with data management and analysis

• Prior program management and supervision experience

• Prior experience conducting training and developing educational programs.

• Knowledge of administrative, human resources, procurement, and fiscal/budgetary principles.

• Demonstrated knowledge of supervisory and program management principles and practices.

• Experience with identifying and/or providing services/resources to the military population.

• Prior military service as a Combat Medic/68W, Corpsman or Medical Technician/4N0X.

Additional Considerations

Experience in public health, clinical or medical services and prior military service as a healthcare professional with duties similar to a military medic or combination of education and job experience.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

VDVS accepts submissions of on-line applications only. Faxed, mailed, or emailed applications will not be considered. Applications are accepted until 11:59 P.M. on the job closing date. Applications and/or resumes should include relevant work history which includes your specific qualifications for the position you are seeking.
The decision to interview an applicant is based solely on the information received for this position from either the electronic applications and/or resume. RMS provides confirmation or receipt when your application and/or resume is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your RMS account to check the status of your application.
It is the policy of VDVS to provide equal opportunity for all applications and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, gender, identify or expression, disability, veterans’ status or political affiliation, or against otherwise qualified person with disabilities.
Commonwealth of Virginia State agencies must provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities, where appropriate. Applicants requiring accommodation should direct inquiries to the human resource contact directly. Requests for reasonable accommodation will be reviewed and determined on a case-by-case basis.
Applicants who possess an Interagency Placement Screening Form (Yellow Form) or a Preferential Hiring Form (Blue Form) as issued under the Department of Human Resources Management (DHRM) Policy 1.30 Layoff (Commonwealth of Virginia Employees Only), MUST attach these forms when submitting their state application and/or resume.

Contact Information

Name: DVS HR Team

Phone: N/A

Email: recruitment@dvs.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.