Senior Director, Clinical Access and Equity
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Boston, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Serves as the senior adviser and thought partner to the CCAEO, providing counsel and operational coordination to implement, support and integrate clinical access programing across the enterprise.
- Work in conjunction with the Cancer Care Equity Program Leadership Team as well as the VP for Community Benefits in the planning and execution, integration and evaluation of CCAEO initiatives. Actively participates in strategic decision-making, risk assessment, challenging assumptions, communications, and budget creation.
- Provide analytic support to the CCAEO to drive operational and strategic planning and decision-making across departments.
- Manages the development and implementation, and oversees development by others, of large, cross-functional organization-wide projects or initiatives, working independently with stakeholders and key partners on the integration, and sustainability of clinical access and equity programing across the enterprise.
- Monitors, evaluates, and reports on the progress of projects to all key stakeholders. Anticipates, identifies, and resolves issues, communicating major issues and recommendations to the CCAEO to inform and support timely decision-making.
- Coordination of key leadership meetings, including identification of key issues for discussion, inclusion of necessary stakeholders and decision-makers. Track and lead execution of action items
- Develops content, presentations and/or organizes and gathers information from various departments and other resources; reports that information, along with recommendations, to a wide variety of audiences, including executive audiences and external stakeholders. Supports the Access and Equity working group transition team in conjunction with the Planning and Consulting team.
- Creates systems and processes to streamline operations.
- Serves on various Institute-level committees, representing the office of the CCAEO; serves as a liaison to partner institutions, as needed.
- Performs varying duties depending on the shifting needs of the office of the CCAEO and its staff members.
- A working knowledge of healthcare and academic medicine.
- Strong strategic thinking aptitude, management experience and analytic orientation.
- Expert-level knowledge of healthcare environment, strategic planning, change and project management.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to navigate highly complex projects through a consensus-driven environment.
- Excellent skills in organizational and time management with the ability to prioritize projects in connection with strategic priorities.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with ability to deliver presentations to a wide variety of audiences; ability to interact regularly and confidently with C-Suite executives.
- Ability to convert project and stakeholder needs into meaningful frameworks, providing guidance and thought partnership to key stakeholders.
- Ability to interact and influence organization-wide (and beyond) and to work collaboratively across functions, levels, and departments toward shared objectives.
- High level of comfort with ambiguous situations; ability to maintain flexibility and adaptability while maintaining focus on goals and important deadlines.
- Interest in and commitment to the mission of improving clinical access to high quality cancer care for marginalized patient populations.
- Supervise a Program Manager in the same department.
- Bachelor’s degree required; Business/Healthcare related field required. Master’s degree preferred (MBA, MPH, MHA).
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in business, operational or strategic planning, preferably in a highly complex, matrixed organization such as an academic medical center, medical school teaching hospital, research university, biopharma or other/consulting experiences in such environments required.