Director, Operations KCO, Regev and Xavier Lab
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Job Location:
Cambridge, MA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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Description & Requirements
About the Broad Institute
The Broad Institute brings together a collaborative community of researchers from MIT Harvard and affiliated hospitals with the mission of advancing the understanding and treatment of human disease. apply our deep knowledge of human genetics to empower a revolution in biomedicine and accelerate the pace at which the world conquers disease. Through our partnerships with MIT Harvard and the Harvard teaching hospitals weve become a worldwide hub of cutting-edge biomedical science.
TheDirector Operations serves as a trusted strategic partner to senior leadership overseeing operational performance coordinating lab-wide initiatives and ensuring that administrative and strategic priorities advance efficiently. This individual is responsible for driving execution improving cross-functional workflows supporting decision-making and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. This role requires exceptional organizational leadership scientific or research-environment fluency and the ability to operate with sound judgment in a complex fast-paced research-focused institution.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership helping shape priorities organizational plans and long-range initiatives.
- Oversee daily operational activities across functional areas (administration sponsored research finance legal and HR).
- Partner with scientific and administrative leaders to identify operational challenges and implement solutions.
- Partner with scientific and operational leadership to ensure administrative functions proactively support evolving research priorities.
- Drive continuous improvement efforts promoting efficiency transparency and effective communication across teams.
- Oversee budgeting forecasting financial reporting and financial planning across the lab.
- Ensure strong internal controls compliance with reporting requirements and responsible stewardship of institutional resources.
- Support strategic resource allocation and long-range financial planning in collaboration with senior leadership.
- Support annual budgeting and resource planning processes in partnership with finance and program leadership.
- Monitor budgets staffing allocations space planning and operational expenditures to ensure alignment with strategic priorities.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree; advanced degree preferred (MBA MPH MPA MS/PhD in a scientific field or related discipline).
- At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in operations strategic planning project management or program leadership preferably within a research academic biomedical or nonprofit environment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously.
- Exceptional communication facilitation and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively at all organizational levels.
- Understanding of budgeting research operations grant management and laboratory operations.
- Strong analytical organizational and systems-thinking capabilities.
- Prior experience serving as a comparable executive-level operations leader.
- Proven track record of team leadership and organizational development.
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Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Employee Relations
- Employee Evaluation
- Management Experience
- Profit & Loss
- Conflict Management
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Budgeting
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Leadership management
- Financial Planning
About Company
Broad Institute is a multidisciplinary community of researchers on a mission to improve human health.
