Program Manager, Patient Family Relations
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Job Location:
Somerville, NJ - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 62400 - 90750
Posted on:
08-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals including doctors nurses business people tech experts researchers and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit we support patient care research teaching and community service striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
The Program Manager PFR MGB works closely with the Vice President Patient and Family Relations to develop and manage projects relating to Patient and Family Relations strategy measurement and policy. Responsible for managing all aspects of a program and corresponding projects. Implements initiatives that support alignment with organizational goals and strategic planning. Leads the communication and collaboration with stakeholders. Analyzes data prepares reports and provides regular updates to program leadership. Identifies and escalates issues and risks and recommends solutions. Leads and provides guidance and support to other administrative team members.Principal Duties and Responsibilities
With support from the Vice President Patient and Family Relations the Program Manager PFR MGB supports strategy measurement and policy and relating to Patient and Family Relations.
Provides effective project management support for Patient and Family Relations strategic initiatives.
Contributes to enterprise-wide efforts to standardize Patient and Family Relations operations including the refinement and adoption of shared workflows procedures and service standards to ensure consistency and equity in the patient experience across all sites.
Serves as an administrator for RL Feedback module for Patient and Family Relations overseeing user access maintaining forms and workflows troubleshooting system issues and partnering with Safety/Risk Patient Experience and IT teams to support data integrity reporting and optimization of the platform. Participates in training configuration updates and enterprise-level discussions when needed to ensure consistent and effective use of the tool across all entities.
Serves as project support for PFR escalation grievance compliance and data tracking.
Crafts and implements framework supporting patient and family relations.
Leads program and project teams and coordinates and delegates cross-project initiatives.
Conducts research manages and analyzes data in systems and develops reports and presentations to support programs.
Monitor program progress and proactively address deviations from plans timelines or budgets.
Work with minimal to no oversight.
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Advanced project management skills/expertise including large complex projects
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent years of experience required
- 2 years of proven project management skills required
- 3 to 5 years prior experience in field related as project manager preferred
- Strong interpersonal skills to enable collaboration across the Mass General Brigham enterprise as well as with patients and families
- A combination of education and experience may be considered in place of requirements
Skills Abilities and Competencies
- Will need to demonstrate Mass General Brighams 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
- 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
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Pay Range
$62400.00 - $90750.40/AnnualGrade
6EEO Statement:
Mass General Brigham Competency Framework
At Mass General Brigham our competency framework defines what effective leadership looks like by specifying which behaviors are most critical for successful performance at each job level. The framework is comprised of ten competencies (half People-Focused half Performance-Focused) and are defined by observable and measurable skills and behaviors that contribute to workplace effectiveness and career success. These competencies are used to evaluate performance make hiring decisions identify development needs mobilize employees across our system and establish a strong talent pipeline.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Program Management
- Management Experience
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Project Management
- Microsoft Project
- Budgeting
- DoD Experience
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Contracts
About Company
Patients at Mass General have access to a vast network of physicians, nearly all of whom are Harvard Medical School faculty and many of whom are leaders within their fields.
