Senior Manager, Policy

Senior Manager, Policy

Hybrid: Washington, DC (preferred) or New York, NY

About the Peterson Center on Healthcare

The Peterson Center on Healthcare (“Center”) is a non-profit organization dedicated to making higher quality, more affordable healthcare a reality for all Americans. The organization is working to transform U.S. healthcare into a high-performance system by finding innovative solutions that improve quality and lower costs, and accelerating their adoption on a national scale. Established by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Center collaborates with stakeholders across the healthcare system and engages in grant-making, partnerships, and research. 

About the Opportunity

The Center seeks a Senior Manager to support the ideation, development, and execution of work primarily within its health technology policy portfolio. This position will play a central role in articulating and advancing the Center’s health technology policy development efforts, with a focus on policies that can increase efficiency, improve health outcomes, and lower healthcare costs.

The person for this role will help translate insights and findings from the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) into a broader policy agenda aimed at creating the conditions for health technology innovation to improve health outcomes and lower spending.

This person will work closely with the Senior Director of Policy and other Center leadership to support existing projects and grants including significantly contributing to policy and research papers, regulatory comment letters, and other policy collateral aligned with the Center’s goals. They will also assist in the development of new grants and continuing to build out areas of strategic focus.

More specifically, responsibilities include:

Project Design, Execution and Management

Support and help drive a dynamic, growing technology focused portfolio of policy and policy-adjacent projects and deliverables for the Center, such as:

• Drafting research papers and select regulatory comment letters to advance our technology policy objectives.
• Supporting the Senior Director in the ideation and development of the tech portfolio’s thesis, which will have an emphasis on policy change.
• Understanding the tech policy environment, being able to parse signals from noise in a fast-moving space.
• Serving as the content and managerial glue between Sr. Director and associate staff.

Oversee and facilitate the development and management of grants and contracts that support the Center’s goals. This includes supporting the grant lifecycle process:

• Serve as a thought partner in each step of the grant making process from ideation to proposal development to final outcomes and deliverables.
• Synthesize learnings and develop and present complex deliverables to leadership;
• Oversee associate staff to ensure meticulous tracking of project status, internal and external partners, necessary follow-ups, and next steps.
• Evaluate the project and outcomes to develop recommendations for subsequent funding.
• Work closely with the Grant Operations team to ensure that grantees comply with organizational financial policies, oversight processes and requirements.
• Work with Center leadership and other staff to identify and implement process improvements related to grant creation, project management and administration.

Internal and External Strategy and Management

• Collaborate closely with colleagues and the leadership team on internal strategic priorities and decision making regarding the portfolio and the broader program.
• Build relationships with, and serve as a connector and convener of foundations, experts, leadership organizations and other key partners where appropriate.
• Commission, oversee, and conduct relevant research and analysis and share key findings.
• Attend relevant external meetings and conferences as well as ensure constant scans of the healthcare field, including debates, developments, new research findings, and policy decisions to stay current.
• Partner with the Communications department to identify opportunities to promote and elevate the Center’s work. Manage the work of junior staff to support projects; work with the Sr. Director to develop professional learning and growth opportunities.

About the Successful Candidate: Are you someone who:

Drives results as a collaborative team player: You bring a proactive, can-do attitude and are willing to step into projects wherever needed to help the team succeed. You thrive working across teams and levels of seniority, including supporting junior staff. You derive satisfaction from the success of your teammates and helping the entire team perform at a higher level. You correctly anticipate the needs of senior staff and develop the relationships and judgement to move projects forward.

Possesses relevant health policy or strategic consulting experience: You have experience in areas relevant to health tech policy, such as coverage, reimbursement, regulatory oversight, or data-sharing frameworks that govern the U.S. health technology ecosystem. You are motivated to deepen expertise in emerging area of health technology while remaining open to expanding into other areas of health policy as the Center’s needs and interests evolve.

Brings nimble learning and adapts with agility: You learn quickly when facing new situations and are comfortable navigating ambiguity. You gather, analyze, and synthesize information to support effective decision-making and execution. You take on the challenge of unfamiliar tasks, persist despite obstacles and setbacks, and extract lessons from both successes and setbacks.

Has a strategic mindset: You can step back to see the big picture while continuously adjusting and adapting as circumstances, evidence, and organizational priorities change.

Applies strong analytical skills: You apply logical thinking to complex problems. You can identify and define problems, extract key information from data, and develop workable, evidence-based solutions.

Excels at project management: You bring an organizational mind-set and deliver projects with clear workflows, timelines, and deliverables.

Is a superior communicator and writer: You write and speak clearly, effectively, and succinctly, including under time pressure. You can synthesize complex information into understandable and persuasive messages.

Additionally, do you have:

• At least 9+ years of experience in relevant areas of health tech policy, either within government or engaging regularly with government officials and/or government policymaking processes, strategic consulting, corporate strategy, business operations or other professional services, program or project management, or related experience.
• Intellectual curiosity about how philanthropy drives change in health care markets and policy, and interest in healthcare delivery, funding and financing, healthcare system transformation.
• A bachelor’s degree; advanced degree in science, public health, public policy or related area is a plus.
• In order to build productive relationships across the organization and to ensure effective collaboration, this role requires in-person presence in accordance with the organization’s hybrid schedule of working in the office three days per week.

Salary and Benefits

We anticipate that the starting base salary range for this position will be $115,000 to $120,000, plus eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus. A final decision on the successful candidate’s starting salary will be based on a number of factors, such as skills, experience, qualifications, education, and the location in which the job will be performed. In addition, we offer an extensive benefits package to support our employees, including comprehensive health insurance, a substantial 401k match, paid time off, a hybrid work schedule and other flexible work policies.

The Peterson Center on Healthcare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply to our organization. We offer a welcoming community that respects each individual and fosters a diverse set of experiences, perspectives, skills and ideas. We are committed to building a workplace in which every team member can thrive personally and professionally and contribute to our mission.