Program Officer, Strategy - Washington, United States - PCORI

PCORI

Verified Company

Washington, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

About Us
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010.

Its mission is to fund research that will provide patients, their caregivers and clinicians with the evidence-based information needed to make better-informed healthcare decisions.

PCORI is committed to continually seeking input from a broad range of stakeholders to guide its work.

Position Summary
The primary objectives of the Program Officer position on the Evaluation & Analysis (E&A) team are to:

Contribute to the design and implementation of approaches to describe and answer key learning and evaluation questions about PCORI's progress toward achievement of PCORI's organizational goals and mission; and support the study of unique and/or central aspects of PCORI's approach (e.g., major initiatives, processes, or organizational policies) to understand their contributions to PCORI's progress.
Facilitate PCORI's use of data and evidence to inform strategic decisions about programs and processes.
Coordinate highprofile projects that provide information of interest to key audiences, such as the PCORI Board of Governors (Board), the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), PCORI leaders, and external stakeholders.

The Program Officer uses extensive technical expertise, understanding of PCORI's mission and activities, and active collaboration to support E&A in key areas.

For this Program Officer role, we seek someone with a particular emphasis on

Describing and analyzing PCORI's award portfolio,
Supporting PCORI's ability to operate as a learning organization, by building culture and capacity for organizational learning, evaluation, and analysis in units across PCORI, and
Contributing to assessing and describing the impact of PCORI's research and policies.

Duties and Responsibilities

Supports the development and maintenance of PCORI's portfolio coding and reporting framework and a new coding taxonomy to characterize the funded portfolio within the parameters laid out in the portfolio coding and reporting framework.
Leads and collaborates on the establishment and maintenance of baseline systems of portfolio coding for use in portfolio analyses and reporting.
Plans and leads ad hoc, deepdive analyses on the funded portfolio.
Supports the organizational capacity for portfolio reporting and analysis by coleading the development of guidance, products, and processes that support portfolio reporting and analytic needs laid out in the portfolio coding and reporting framework.
Manages vendors conducting work in support of portfolio coding and reporting activities including providing guidance on vendor direction for work,, tracking and reviewing milestones and deliverables, and working with the Procurement department to execute, modify, and troubleshoot issues with vendor agreements.
Provide counsel to the Associate Director and other leaders across PCORI on approaches to enterprisewide portfolio reporting and analysis needs and current and alternate approaches for ongoing and emerging lines of work.
May lead matrixed teams or oversee the work of Program Associates performing coding or analytic activities.
Incumbents in this position may be required to perform other duties and special assignments not specifically stated above._
Statements outlined in this section are designated as essential job functions in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990._

Required Skills:

Expertise in a range of evaluation concepts to support portfolio analysis such as research design, data management, quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods analysis techniques.
Experience or leadership potential related to evaluation and analysis
Expertise in communicating about data, such as through data visualization or performance metrics.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor communications to a variety of internal and external audiences, across all levels including the executive level.
Strong project management skills; Ability to handle and manage multiple priorities effectively; must be adept at organizing time efficiently; high tolerance for ambiguity;
Able to synthesize material and focus quickly on the essence of an issue; to identify major opportunities in a specific area; to see the big picture
Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills; ability to understand and work effectively with PCORI staff members from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds and to develop productive relationships with colleagues, awardees, consultants, external funders, and others who contribute to program development and management
Sound judgment and maturity, exemplified by consistent professionalism in dealing with individuals at all levels, both internally and externally.
Ability to link organizational goals to individual unit mission and activities.
Commitment to promoting