Program Manager, Community Health and Health Equity, New Initiatives

About Us

As a not-for-profit organization, Mass General Brigham is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community by leading innovation across our system. Founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Mass General Brigham supports a complete continuum of care including community and specialty hospitals, a managed care organization, a physician network, community health centers, home care and other health-related entities. Several of our hospitals are teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School, and our system is a national leader in biomedical research.

We’re focused on a people-first culture for our system’s patients and our professional family. That’s why we provide our employees with more ways to achieve their potential. Mass General Brigham is committed to aligning our employees’ personal aspirations with projects that match their capabilities and creating a culture that empowers our managers to become trusted mentors. We support each member of our team to own their personal development—and we recognize success at every step.

Our employees use the Mass General Brigham values to govern decisions, actions and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients, Affordability, Accountability & Service Commitment, Decisiveness, Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion, Integrity & Respect, Learning, Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth, Teamwork & Collaboration.

General Overview

Mass General Brigham (MGB) Community Health leads the Mass General Brigham system-wide commitment to improve the health and well-being of low-income and vulnerable populations. Mass General Brigham’s commitment to the community is part of a $30 million pledge to programs aimed at dismantling racism and other forms of inequity through a comprehensive combination of approaches involving our health care delivery system and community health programs.

Under the direction of the Director for Community Health System Initiatives and Investments, the Program Manager is responsible for building out a formal infrastructure for managing grant making and receiving activities of MGB Community Health, as well as supporting the development of new community health strategies including those related to anchor and new enterprise initiatives (ERAPS)

Hybrid work environment, office-based work twice monthly within the Boston area.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Grant fund management and reporting
• Manage the development of a system-wide process for applying for and managing community health grants received by MGB from external organizations (with support from Director)
• Create an efficient process to manage communication across MGB related to community health grant opportunities and support enterprise-wide collaboration
• Manage MGB grantmaking activities to external organizations and manage a grants process to fund individuals and teams conducting research to advance community health delivery
• Manage the process for tracking of outcomes for community-based investments Conduct evidence-based research, manage data collection, and conduct analysis and reporting of data related to community-based investments, and communicate the impact to internal and external stakeholders.

• Support MGB strategy development and community health improvement initiatives, as needed

Qualifications

• BS degree and MS preferred
• 3 to 5 years prior management experience
• A combination of education and experience may be substituted for requirement
• Equivalency for BS requires 6 years of directly related experience in additional to required work experience

Skills/Abilities/Competencies

• Will need to demonstrate Mass General Brigham’s Leadership Competencies for both Performance Focused Leadership and People-Focused Leadership
  • Performance Focused:
    • Customer/Patient Focus: Building strong customer/patient relationships and delivering customer/patient centric solutions
    • Manage Complexity: Make sense of complex, high quality, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
    • Cultivate Innovation: Create new and better ways for the organization to be successful
    • Ensure Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
    • Learning Agility: Actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as a learning folder
    
    

• People Focused:
  • Drive Equity and Inclusion: Recognizes the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization
  • Build Effective Teams: Build cohesive teams that apply their diverse skills and perspective to achieve common goals
  • Collaborate: Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
  • Communicate Effectively: Develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
  • Instill Trust: Gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity

Mass General Brigham is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.