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Project Program Manager roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA's Management Consultant category when the position involves directing cross-functional initiatives with a defined methodology. Canadian citizens can apply at the border or a U.S. consulate; Mexican citizens go through consular processing with a limited annual allocation.
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Reports to Director, Brown University Health Retail Pharmacy Services or Director, Specialty Pharmacy Services as applicable. Responsible for managing all operational, professional, and clinical activities for pharmacy operations at assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy (LP) site. Serves as the designated Pharmacist-in-Charge and Registrant for assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy site and is personally accountable to the Rhode Island (RI) Department of Health (DoH) and federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for the entire scope of activities intrinsic to these designations. Ensures compliance with state, federal, organizational, and accrediting organization requirements. Ensures appropriate clinical pharmacist, pharmacy technician, and student intern scheduling. Ensures budgetary adherence for labor, payroll, sales, script count, inventory levels, and expenses. Completes annual performance appraisal for clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns and serves as coach and mentor to develop staff. Oversees and closely reviews the work of clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns. Collaborates with multidisciplinary care providers to monitor, assess, and intervene as needed to ensure safe, appropriate, and cost-effective medication use.
Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers, and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include:
- Instill Trust and Value Differences
- Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate
In addition, our leaders will demonstrate an aptitude for:
- Ensure Accountability and Build Effective Teams
- Drive Vision and Purpose and Optimize Work Processes
By applying core and leadership competencies, leaders help Brown University Health achieve its strategic goals.
Responsibilities
Pursuant to Pharmacist-in-Charge and Registrant designations at the assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy licensed site is responsible to:
- Ensure the assigned LP licensed site meets the requirements set forth by federal and state law, RI Board of Pharmacy rules and regulations, and other applicable state regulations, including those pertaining to:
- All pharmacy licensed employee activities, including those beyond direct and indirect reports.
- All medication use and storage areas under the pharmacy license.
- All dispensing, compounding, order review, collaborative practice, and pharmacy clinical services being performed at the licensed location, even where no direct oversight.
- All pharmacy related policies, procedures, laws, rules and regulations and the activities performed under them.
- Any controlled substance loss or diversion at the assigned LP licensed location, regardless of role of individual diverting.
- All reports of significant controlled substance loss or diversion to State Board of Pharmacy and local Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
- Completion of biennial controlled substance inventory and maintenance of required records pertaining to receiving, dispensing, transferring, and reverse distribution of all control substances on site.
- Environmental conditions of all medication areas and assurance of pharmacy staff safety.
- Maintains knowledge of and compliance with regulations related to compounding including those promulgated by the Rhode Island Department of Health, Rhode Island Board of Pharmacy Rules and Regulations, United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) Chapters 795 and 800, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
- Ensures the highest standards of customer service are consistently executed, and that clinical pharmacist and pharmacy technician scheduling is adequate to meet patient/customer needs.
- Ensures clinical pharmacists consistently execute all established standards of service.
- Ensures budgetary adherence for labor, payroll, sales, script count, inventory levels, and expenses.
- Ensures new budgeted programs, initiatives, and technology are successfully implemented.
- Oversees compliance with the 340B drug purchasing program for pharmacies that serve as a contract pharmacy for one or more 340B covered entities.
- Ensures quality assurance standards are met, continually seeks out measures for improvement.
- Ensures staff participation in quality assessment and improvement activities and total quality management initiatives, including the adverse drug reaction, pharmacist clinical intervention, and medication incident reporting programs.
- Ensures staff is appropriately trained, follow policies and procedures, and complete required continuing education and corporate compliance learning modules.
- Precepts pharmacy interns and residents. Serves as a coach and mentor for all staff by assigning projects and establishing goals while providing continuous feedback.
- Completes annual performance appraisals for clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns. Initiates and conducts corrective action plans, when appropriate.
- Interviews and hires new staff, ensures new employee on-boarding is completed.
- Adjusts workflow to achieve maximal productivity and efficiency.
- Maintains appropriate documentation and records regarding drug purchasing, storage, preparation, and distribution as required by organizational procedures and/or applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
- Ensures that refrigerated and frozen medications are stored at optimal temperatures and that optimal temperatures are maintained until medications are delivered to the patient.
- Monitors and drives sales and script count goals; interprets financial and performance metrics on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis as applicable to the site. Understands key business metrics and executes best practices to improve these metrics (i.e., customer satisfaction scores).
- Participates in education and training of healthcare practitioners, including pharmacy students and technicians, physicians and other practitioners, nurses, other care providers, and patients/customers on matters relevant to medication use.
- Maintains professional competence through participation in pharmacy development and skills enhancement programs, ongoing independent study, education-related professional activities, and affiliations. May perform the duties of a clinical pharmacist as needed.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
- Effective utilization of resources
- Management of continuous quality improvement
- High quality, high value patient-focused services
- Resource productivity
- Fiscal responsibility
- Development and implementation of effective, quality programs
- Customer satisfaction
- Performance improvements year-to-year
- Positive feedback from colleagues and staff
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Science in pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited college of pharmacy.
- Prior to start date, possesses current unrestricted licensure as a licensed pharmacist, or as a licensed 90-day temporary pharmacist, in the State of Rhode Island. Obtains full licensure prior to expiration of 90-day temporary pharmacist license, then possesses and maintains current unrestricted licensure as a licensed pharmacist in the State of Rhode Island.
QUALIFICATIONS - EXPERIENCE
- Three years progressively more responsible related experience, preferably gained in a similarly diverse and operationally complex health care environment is desired.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, to interact appropriately with patients, families, colleagues, and others.
- Effective organizational and presentation skills.
- Knowledge of area/specialty specific technology, including, but not limited to, pharmacy information systems, automated dispensing technology, software, equipment, and automation. Experience with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and web browsers.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
- Direct supervision of up to 60 FTEs.
Pay Range
$134,035.20-$221,187.20
Location
795 Middle Street - 795 Middle Street Fall River, Massachusetts 02721
Work Type
M-F 7:00am-7:00pm
Work Shift
Day
Daily Hours
8 hours
Driving Required
No
Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.
SUMMARY
Reports to Director, Brown University Health Retail Pharmacy Services or Director, Specialty Pharmacy Services as applicable. Responsible for managing all operational, professional, and clinical activities for pharmacy operations at assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy (LP) site. Serves as the designated Pharmacist-in-Charge and Registrant for assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy site and is personally accountable to the Rhode Island (RI) Department of Health (DoH) and federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for the entire scope of activities intrinsic to these designations. Ensures compliance with state, federal, organizational, and accrediting organization requirements. Ensures appropriate clinical pharmacist, pharmacy technician, and student intern scheduling. Ensures budgetary adherence for labor, payroll, sales, script count, inventory levels, and expenses. Completes annual performance appraisal for clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns and serves as coach and mentor to develop staff. Oversees and closely reviews the work of clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns. Collaborates with multidisciplinary care providers to monitor, assess, and intervene as needed to ensure safe, appropriate, and cost-effective medication use.
Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers, and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include:
- Instill Trust and Value Differences
- Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate
In addition, our leaders will demonstrate an aptitude for:
- Ensure Accountability and Build Effective Teams
- Drive Vision and Purpose and Optimize Work Processes
By applying core and leadership competencies, leaders help Brown University Health achieve its strategic goals.
Responsibilities
Pursuant to Pharmacist-in-Charge and Registrant designations at the assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy licensed site is responsible to:
- Ensure the assigned LP licensed site meets the requirements set forth by federal and state law, RI Board of Pharmacy rules and regulations, and other applicable state regulations, including those pertaining to:
- All pharmacy licensed employee activities, including those beyond direct and indirect reports.
- All medication use and storage areas under the pharmacy license.
- All dispensing, compounding, order review, collaborative practice, and pharmacy clinical services being performed at the licensed location, even where no direct oversight.
- All pharmacy related policies, procedures, laws, rules and regulations and the activities performed under them.
- Any controlled substance loss or diversion at the assigned LP licensed location, regardless of role of individual diverting.
- All reports of significant controlled substance loss or diversion to State Board of Pharmacy and local Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
- Completion of biennial controlled substance inventory and maintenance of required records pertaining to receiving, dispensing, transferring, and reverse distribution of all control substances on site.
- Environmental conditions of all medication areas and assurance of pharmacy staff safety.
- Maintains knowledge of and compliance with regulations related to compounding including those promulgated by the Rhode Island Department of Health, Rhode Island Board of Pharmacy Rules and Regulations, United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) Chapters 795 and 800, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
- Ensures the highest standards of customer service are consistently executed, and that clinical pharmacist and pharmacy technician scheduling is adequate to meet patient/customer needs.
- Ensures clinical pharmacists consistently execute all established standards of service.
- Ensures budgetary adherence for labor, payroll, sales, script count, inventory levels, and expenses.
- Ensures new budgeted programs, initiatives, and technology are successfully implemented.
- Oversees compliance with the 340B drug purchasing program for pharmacies that serve as a contract pharmacy for one or more 340B covered entities.
- Ensures quality assurance standards are met, continually seeks out measures for improvement.
- Ensures staff participation in quality assessment and improvement activities and total quality management initiatives, including the adverse drug reaction, pharmacist clinical intervention, and medication incident reporting programs.
- Ensures staff is appropriately trained, follow policies and procedures, and complete required continuing education and corporate compliance learning modules.
- Precepts pharmacy interns and residents. Serves as a coach and mentor for all staff by assigning projects and establishing goals while providing continuous feedback.
- Completes annual performance appraisals for clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns. Initiates and conducts corrective action plans, when appropriate.
- Interviews and hires new staff, ensures new employee on-boarding is completed.
- Adjusts workflow to achieve maximal productivity and efficiency.
- Maintains appropriate documentation and records regarding drug purchasing, storage, preparation, and distribution as required by organizational procedures and/or applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
- Ensures that refrigerated and frozen medications are stored at optimal temperatures and that optimal temperatures are maintained until medications are delivered to the patient.
- Monitors and drives sales and script count goals; interprets financial and performance metrics on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis as applicable to the site. Understands key business metrics and executes best practices to improve these metrics (i.e., customer satisfaction scores).
- Participates in education and training of healthcare practitioners, including pharmacy students and technicians, physicians and other practitioners, nurses, other care providers, and patients/customers on matters relevant to medication use.
- Maintains professional competence through participation in pharmacy development and skills enhancement programs, ongoing independent study, education-related professional activities, and affiliations. May perform the duties of a clinical pharmacist as needed.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
- Effective utilization of resources
- Management of continuous quality improvement
- High quality, high value patient-focused services
- Resource productivity
- Fiscal responsibility
- Development and implementation of effective, quality programs
- Customer satisfaction
- Performance improvements year-to-year
- Positive feedback from colleagues and staff
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Science in pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited college of pharmacy.
- Prior to start date, possesses current unrestricted licensure as a licensed pharmacist, or as a licensed 90-day temporary pharmacist, in the State of Rhode Island. Obtains full licensure prior to expiration of 90-day temporary pharmacist license, then possesses and maintains current unrestricted licensure as a licensed pharmacist in the State of Rhode Island.
QUALIFICATIONS - EXPERIENCE
- Three years progressively more responsible related experience, preferably gained in a similarly diverse and operationally complex health care environment is desired.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, to interact appropriately with patients, families, colleagues, and others.
- Effective organizational and presentation skills.
- Knowledge of area/specialty specific technology, including, but not limited to, pharmacy information systems, automated dispensing technology, software, equipment, and automation. Experience with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and web browsers.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
- Direct supervision of up to 60 FTEs.
Pay Range
$134,035.20-$221,187.20
Location
795 Middle Street - 795 Middle Street Fall River, Massachusetts 02721
Work Type
M-F 7:00am-7:00pm
Work Shift
Day
Daily Hours
8 hours
Driving Required
No
Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as a Project Program Manager
Frame your credentials around Management Consultant criteria
TN visa approval for Project Program Managers depends on mapping your role to the Management Consultant category. Gather a bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or a related field and document how your work involves systematic analysis and advisory deliverables, not just task coordination.
Target employers with active federal contracts
Companies holding federal or state government contracts often sponsor work visas for program managers because project documentation requirements align with USMCA visa specialty occupation criteria. Look for employers with recent visa filings in your discipline—those with demonstrated sponsorship experience are more likely to support qualified candidates through the TN application process.
Negotiate a detailed offer letter before crossing the border
Canadian applicants often process TN status at a port of entry, so your offer letter does the work a petition normally would. It must name the position, describe the managerial methodology involved, state the degree requirement, and confirm a fixed end date for the initial status period.
Use Migrate Mate to find employers already sponsoring TN roles
Searching broadly wastes time on employers unfamiliar with visa sponsorship. Migrate Mate surfaces Project Program Manager roles where employers have recent visa filings, letting you prioritize outreach to hiring managers who understand the sponsorship process and can quickly prepare your support letter for TN status.
Prepare a scope-of-work memo for complex program structures
If your program manager title spans multiple business units or matrixed teams, CBP officers may question whether the role is executive rather than consultative. A one-page scope-of-work memo distinguishing your advisory and analytical outputs from direct supervisory authority significantly reduces that challenge risk.
Target employers with recent visa filing experience
Mexican citizens cannot use port-of-entry processing, so your employer must prepare a support letter and you'll apply at a U.S. consulate. Confirm your employer understands the TN application process and that your consulate appointment is scheduled to proceed smoothly without timing gaps.
Project Program Manager TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Project Program Manager role qualify for a TN visa?
Yes, but qualification depends on how the role is structured. TN visa approval for Project Program Managers is granted under the Management Consultant category, which requires the position to involve systematic analysis, recommendations, and defined project methodologies. Roles focused primarily on administrative oversight or staffing coordination, without an analytical or advisory component, face higher scrutiny at the port of entry or consulate.
How does TN visa sponsorship for this role compare to H-1B?
TN sponsorship is generally faster and more predictable for Project Program Managers than H-1B visa. There is no lottery, no cap for Canadian citizens, and Canadian nationals can receive TN status at a U.S. port of entry the same day. H-1B requires annual lottery selection, a months-long USCIS adjudication, and employer-paid filing fees that are substantially higher. The trade-off is that TN does not lead directly to a green card the way H-1B visa can.
What documentation does my employer need to provide for TN sponsorship?
Your employer must provide a signed offer letter that describes the role in terms aligned with the Management Consultant category: the analytical or advisory nature of the work, the degree required, the project scope, and the duration of employment. For Mexican nationals, your employer submits the offer letter and supporting documentation to the U.S. consulate as part of your TN visa application. Canadian nationals typically present these documents directly at the port of entry without a prior government filing.
How can I find Project Program Manager jobs where employers already understand TN sponsorship?
Most general job postings do not specify TN visa familiarity, which means applicants often spend interview cycles educating hiring managers. Migrate Mate is built specifically to surface roles at employers with recent visa filings, so your search focuses on companies that have already navigated work visa sponsorship and are prepared to support it again.
Can I switch employers after receiving TN status as a Project Program Manager?
Yes, but TN status is employer-specific. If you change jobs, your new employer must establish a new TN authorization before you begin work. Canadian citizens can do this at a port of entry with a new offer letter. Mexican citizens must complete a new consular appointment. There is no USCIS portability provision for TN the way AC21 works for H-1B holders, so timing the transition carefully is essential to avoid a gap in work authorization.