Program Officer, Health Commercialization

VentureWell is growing and is seeking a Program Officer who is interested in working with emerging programmatic opportunities in the healthcare field, with a focus on the development of new breakthrough capabilities, technologies, systems, and platforms to accelerate innovation in health and medicine. We value staff members who are curious, committed to environmental sustainability, and have experience (either through work or personal life) working with marginalized groups affected by racism, sexism, or classism.

VentureWell serves as the Consortium Management Firm for the ARPA-H Investor Catalyst Hub, a groundbreaking health innovation network. The Investor Catalyst Hub scales health research and venture investment ecosystem capabilities, disrupt traditional care models, create new delivery pathways, and help performers bring game-changing solutions to market to solve big problems in health. Specifically, our role in this new collaboration will include (1) helping to grow a network of biotech-related commercialization partners, (2) working with staff and program managers to create, design and implement new projects and ideas and (3) working to successfully execute the projects as designed.

VentureWell has an exciting opportunity to hire a new Program Officer to join our ARPA-H Program team. The ideal candidate has experience and/or training in healthcare commercialization and medical technologies or related fields, with exceptional project and program management skills and thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. 

The Program Officer can be remote or will be based out of our Cambridge office.

Responsibilities:

Program Delivery

• Act independently as program liaison with the partner organizations in the ARPA-H program; tactfully deliver timely information between partner organizations and staff; represent organization and program interests during meetings, events, and conversations with partners, consultants, and vendors.
• Translate high-level proposals and awards into tangible and practical work plans.
• Provide high quality technical assistance for program initiatives, including desk research, project documentation, tool/template/report creation
• Manage activities, contracts, and sub-contracts to ensure compliance with award deliverables, rules, and obligations.
• Leverage healthcare commercialization or medical technology domain experience to coordinate and implement new and existing program offerings with guidance from manager, including continually learning from evaluation findings to recommend program improvements and implementing process improvements while systems are “in motion”
• Work within defined program direction with funders and partners for successful program implementation, including creative problem-solving and “customer service” approach to deliver on funder and partner needs within time and budget constraints
• Prepare and synthesize written material for proposals and reports to funder
• Design, plan, and facilitate effective meetings

Relationship Management

• Play a leadership role in the fundraising, branding, promotion, and marketing of programs as well as the reporting of program outcomes. Prepare and synthesize written material for proposals and reports to funders.
• Work closely with the Learning and Evaluation team to ensure relevant assessment metrics are used for evaluating programs and documenting learning, knowledge, and impact.
• Source and manage professional services consultants and vendors assigned to the program and provide leadership to cross-organizational colleagues partnering on programs.
• Work closely with colleagues in Contracts and Finance to support external contracts relevant to the work

Project Management

• Provide operational support to programs through work plan management, meeting notes, action item tracking, project documentation, and overall project coordination
• Actively participate in internal collaboration and communication to ensure program success through use of project management tools and practices
• Work towards actively advancing equity in the scope of individual performance goals, and broader contributions to VentureWell’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Act as a problem solver, identifying internal inefficiencies and pain points and communicate them to relevant partner teams; partner with relevant teams on problem solving; operationalizing system improvements on a proactive and reactive basis
• Serve as a liaison between multiple VentureWell departments, modeling the Core Values while navigating fast-paced work in the midst of multiple, vying priorities
• Ensure logistics required for successful program implementation are planned and executed in a mann