Lead Project Manager, Strategic Quality and Safety

1 week ago

Brookline, United States Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Full time

**Job ID**:
39667

**Location**:
10 Brookline Place West, Brookline, MA 02445

**Category**:
Operations

**Employment Type**:
Full time

**Work Location**:
**Remote**: occasional time on campus

Overview

The Department of Quality and Patient Safety (QPS) supports Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s mission to reduce the burden of cancer at Dana-Farber and beyond by educating, inspiring, measuring, improving, and innovating to advance quality across the cancer care continuum. Under the direction of the Administrative Director for Quality and Patient Safety Operations, the Lead Project Manager for Strategic Quality and Safety Initiatives will provide team oversight and expert project management to a portfolio of cross-functional priorities that support the department’s growth, expand its operating capabilities, and further its mission across the six pillars of quality.

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

**Responsibilities**:
Team Start-up and Leadership

Collaborate with the Administrative Director and department leadership to formulate the vision, structure, and operating model for the Strategic Quality and Safety Initiatives team, which will function as a departmental project management office (PMO).
Define the project management methodologies and standards applied and espoused by the team.
Recruit, train, supervise, and coach incoming hires and provide day-to-day operational direction to the team.
Partner with the Administrative Director to design and implement a centralized request management framework that standardizes the intake and prioritization of QPS projects and guides resource distribution decisions for balance and maximal priority-payoff.
Monitor the team’s project portfolio and perform quality checks, ensuring projects and their associated deliverables are completed to spec and within time, scope, and budget constraints.
Guide the annual QPS goal setting and monitoring processes.
Design and routinely produce a QPS Project Dashboard to track the health, risks, and achievements of projects managed throughout the department.
Establish and maintain productive relationships with the leaders and staff within each QPS division and with key stakeholders in other departments.

Direct Project Support

Serve as the go-to project management resource for initiatives directed by the Chief Quality Officer, Vice President, and Administrative Director.
Support the project management needs within QPS for major Institutional endeavors (e.g., Dana-Farber Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Collaboration, Project NExT enterprise resource planning system migration).

**Manage multiple projects concurrently, which will involve**:
Mobilizing and leading project teams that require significant multi-departmental engagement and/or intradepartmental collaboration.
Developing project plans, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring progress across the team.
Understanding and proactively managing stakeholder expectations.
Organizing, facilitating, and documenting project meetings, then overseeing follow up activity.
Preparing project artifacts, deliverables, meeting materials, and other content.
Anticipating, identifying, escalating, and resolving risks to a project’s status, milestones, and/or timeline.
Delivering effective progress briefings, in-depth project reviews, closure presentations, and postmortem analyses to engage leadership/key stakeholders throughout a project’s lifecycle.

Project Management Practice Champion

Form and chair the QPS Project Advisory Board.
Maintain and continually enhance the QPS Project Management Toolkit and Community of Practice.
Serve as the department’s in-house expert for Smartsheet and other collaboration, productivity management, and survey tools.
Keep up to date on advances in the science of project management, absorbing and communicating emerging best practices.
Advise and mentor junior/aspiring project managers outside the Strategic Quality and Safety Initiatives team.
Establish and contribute to the QPS Artifact Repository, a one-stop-shop for accessing project documentation (e.g., charters, timelines, issue/decision logs) and amplifying lessons learned.
Develop and implement strategies to expand project management capabilities within the department.

**SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
The Lead Project Manager will directly

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