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We are pleased to announce our search for the Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Ariadne Labs’ mission is to create scalable health care solutions that deliver better care at the most critical moments in people’s lives, everywhere. The appointment will be at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Depending on credentials, the successful candidate may be appointed as Professor at Harvard Medical School and if so, would be involved in teaching/training.

The Executive Director is responsible for setting the vision and strategy of Ariadne Labs, leading a dedicated executive and leadership team that will drive the work forward, and ensuring that programs are adequately supported through active revenue generation. S/he will represent the organization at the most senior levels with national and global health leaders and funders, influencing and negotiating to build relationships, partnerships, and alliances.

Candidates will be mission driven and impact-oriented with an understanding of the range of systems and root causes that affect health care, and experience in how health care can best be delivered, simply and with impact. They will have built high-performing teams and partnerships and have proven that they can deliver results that improve lives, and can manage and influence others to do so.

Interested candidates are requested to submit a current Curriculum Vitae and cover letter for consideration.

Please send materials to: Shannon Yeatman at syeatman@spencerstuart.com

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, palliative care, and primary health care.

The vision of the BetterBirth Program at Ariadne Labs is to improve the quality of care, minimize complications, and end the preventable deaths of women and newborns through effective implementation of evidence-based, scalable solutions at the frontline of care. The BetterBirth Program portfolio of projects considers how to reduce maternal and neonatal risk through a range of strategies and across the spectrum of the quality of care ecosystem (individual patient to health system level). The portfolio is managed by the BetterBirth Leadership Team (a dyad made up of a science expert and a management expert). This dyad approach is replicated within each project within the portfolio; each project dyad reports into the BetterBirth Leadership Team.

A new element of the BetterBirth Program portfolio is a focus on infant feeding, with a new project expected to initiate operations in November 2018. The project will document infant feeding practices in four research sites across three Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), and will inform an understanding of what additional evidence is required to guide global recommendations around feeding for vulnerable infants. Findings will inform the next steps of the research work for the BetterBirth Program on infant feeding.  As with all of BetterBirth’s research and solutions development work, the infant feeding project includes a broad range of stakeholders and experts collaborating with Ariadne Labs to successfully carry complete this formative phase of the work.

The BetterBirth Program Leadership is ultimately responsible for all decisions related to program strategy, scientific quality, external relations, budget, and staff workload.

The Role:

The LIFE Scientific Lead will provide technical, strategic and day-to-day guidance of the infant feeding project and its team. Reporting to the Director of BetterBirth, the Scientific Lead will serve as a strategic thought partner for the Director and the team, and will have primary responsibility for executing the research involved in the LIFE project. Following the model of Ariadne Labs leadership dyad, the LIFE Scientific Lead will have a Senior Program Manager with whom to partner on project execution. The LIFE Scientific Lead will:

• Direct and support the internal Ariadne Labs team, providing both strategic and day-to-day guidance to program managers, research assistants, data analysts, and implementation colleagues;
• Provide leadership to the external partners, including subject matter experts (clinicians, scientists, nutritionists) and research site teams;
• and engage with the donor(s).
• When determined by the Director, represent the Program and the Director in meetings within Ariadne Labs and with external partners.

The Scientific Lead for LIFE is a critical role for leading rigorous and applied research, focusing on the technical and scientific areas of this work and ensuring it is conducted with integrity and quality.  S/he will manage day-to-day scientific decision-making and conduct implementation of the research and provide scientific oversight to all activities and focus on partnering with field sites.

S/he will ensure clear lines of communication among internal and external partners to ensure broad stakeholder input is considered and integrated into a standard scientific approach. The role must also consider where appropriate flexibility in the approach is required to address feasibility and mitigate and manage risk.

In partnership with the BetterBirth Program Leadership and the Senior Program Manager for the infant feeding work, the Scientific Lead provides support to members of the infant feeding project team and ensures project health and delivery. This position requires an individual who is skilled at working consistently and collaboratively within Ariadne Lab’s matrix organization to draw in the right expertise at the right time to support the work of the program, e.g. Revenue and Development, Finance, Communications, Innovation, Science & Technology, Implementation, and Talent Development.  

Scientific Leads are considered senior representatives of Ariadne Labs, its mission and its values, both internally and externally. This position requires significant international travel and an ability to develop and maintain senior level external relationships through in-person and remote communication.The Lead may also support the BetterBirth Program portfolio in identifying and applying for additional investment to support ongoing and new projects.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

BetterBirth Program – Infant Feeding Project

• Serve as strategic thought partner to the Program Director and the infant feeding team and be able to articulate and represent strategy to internal and external partners.    
• In collaboration with the Senior Program Manager and program leadership, articulate a vision and strategy for the infant feeding project that is understood within the BetterBirth Program team, within Ariadne Labs, and with the relevant external partners and stakeholders
• Oversee conduct of research focused on the infant feeding project with integrity and excellence, taking responsibility for quality assurance of research process, products and technical content
• Ensure that the study design and conduct results in high quality data with shareable learnings
• Cultivate and manage positive relationships with and between external stakeholders and partners across multicultural contexts to ensure appropriate input to, buy-in to, and execution of the work
• Lead, in consort with subject matter experts, the project’s technical content, including but not limited to: protocol development and modification, data collection tools, analysis planning, writing and reporting
• Contribute content and technical expertise to team deliverables including reports, presentations, websites, concept notes, grants, and manuscripts or journal articles.  
• Identify potential risks, barriers, and opportunities for project work, solve problems as they arise, and escalate issues where appropriate to BetterBirth Program Leadership
• Apply his/her own significant knowledge and experience from nutrition/maternal newborn health to contribute to shaping the current and future trajectory of the portfolio of the BetterBirth Program
• Develop and reinforce strong communication channels within the team and with the Senior Program Manager and BetterBirth Program Leadership to build and maintain a positive team culture
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with key internal stakeholders to effectively secure Ariadne Labs resources and support, including insight to inform significant program decisions
• Ensure all work is undertaken in compliance with IRB and any other necessary ethics  or review boards in collaboration with the BetterBirth Program Director and /or Ariadne Labs’ ethics specialist
• Upon request, manage revenue and grant generating activities for infant feeding activities including: prioritization opportunities, proposal development and writing, and relationship cultivation

Ariadne Labs

• Participate in, and encourage team member participation in, Ariadne Labs’ organizational meetings, updates, and community building activities
• Communicate Ariadne strategic and organizational updates to team members, and communicate back to Ariadne leadership on important organizational issues affecting team members where appropriate
• Share learnings from the infant feeding project with other Ariadne program teams
• Model and reinforce Ariadne’s values by serving as a steward of not only the feeding project, but of Ariadne’s overall mission and goals

Skills / Abilities / Competencies Required:

• Experience conducting research in low and middle-income countries, including quantitative or qualitative research skills  
• Experience managing and supporting others
• Skilled at building and maintaining positive working relationships at all levels within organizations as well as externally with partners
• Team-player who can work collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues and partners on large, complex initiatives
• Excellent ability to multitask, prioritize, and recognize when concerns need to be escalated in a fast-paced environment

• Proven ability as an excellent writer and synthesizer of information
• Attention to detail
• Analytical, critical thinker with ability to synthesize and organize complex ideas and information
• Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills in English, including presenting ideas and results
• Flexible and reliable
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Ability to communicate the BetterBirth Program’s priorities with diplomacy and confidence to a range of audiences.

Qualifications:

• Doctoral and/or advanced clinical degree including but not limited to MD, PhD, RN, Sc.D or CNM
• At least of 5-10 years of work experience, not including clinical training or post-doctoral fellowships, ideally focused on nutrition, maternal/infant health or health services
• If pursuing a joint clinical position, must plan to commit at least 80% time to administrative and research responsibilities at Ariadne Labs
• Experience in leading a multi-country research program/trial and working with professional project management.
• Demonstrated record of academic research and publications.
• Experience in a role requiring leadership and collaboration both within an organization and with external partners, as well as a demonstrated ability to work efficiently and diplomatically as part of a team effort
• Background in program implementation and evaluation and/or clinical trials.
• Expertise in designing and conducting research studies and implementation projects.
• Experience managing and mentoring junior team members, both individually and in small teams
• Willingness to travel 20-40% of the time
• Experience working in Low or Middle Income Countries

Our Values:

• Respect for the Ariadne Labs mission, our community, each other, and ourselves;
• Stewardship of our work and resources;
• Pursuit of excellence, with a focus on continual improvement;
• A belief in a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to our work;
• A commitment to meaningful diversity and inclusion in our work and in the Ariadne Labs community.

Characteristics of People Who Thrive at Ariadne:

• humility about the limits of one’s own expertise and experience
• intellectual curiosity
• agility
• self-discipline
• attention to detail
• willingness to roll up sleeves to get the job done

To apply:

Please submit a CV, cover letter, and the contact information of three references by Friday, November 16th to: people@ariadnelabs.org

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, primary care and palliative care.

The Clinical Quality Improvement Specialist will be part of  the Implementation Platform at Ariadne Labs to provide support in designing, testing, and delivering effective quality improvement solutions and implementation plans, in accordance with project goals, to meet the needs of end users. S/he will engage at a deep level across clinical domains to build the capabilities, systems, and processes needed to deliver scalable and sustainable solutions. S/he will be responsible for fostering relationships between Ariadne Labs and the leaders and champions of healthcare facilities where implementation is taking place, both domestically and internationally, by effectively applying core principles of quality theory.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Cultivate partnerships to accelerate adoption of our solutions by integrating usability and implementation principles as projects move from design to spread
• Lead effective project teams and manage relationships with local quality champions and provide ongoing support in implementation efforts through coaching calls, webinars, one-on-one advising, implementation trainings, and remote methods
• Represent and elevate the nursing and/or clinical perspective within Ariadne Labs in developing equitable implementation tools and plans and fostering different perspectives
• Frontline clinical and process experience in order to represent all stakeholders in our work, including patients and families.
• Drive project design and learning to co-develop clear project goals that are visible and are then applied to the development of toolkits and implementation guides that can be adapted and customized for all projects
• Co-design and improve program activities, including modifying program structures, creating curricula, designing and facilitating trainings, developing agendas and testing new approaches to meet desired goals.
• Develop materials, case studies, blogs, training curriculum, webinar content and any other needed materials to support implementation and dissemination activities
• Synthesize lessons learned at Ariadne Labs in implementation, coaching, adaptation, and adoption of interventions among end users in order to improve the interventions and increase Ariadne Labs’ ability to affect change and increase uptake of proven interventions
• Contribute to grant writing, proposal development, scientific writing, and impact assessment to promote the work of the Implementation Platform.
• Foster curiosity to enhance and build knowledge on quality theory and Improvement Science, and be able to apply in all aspects of our work internally and externally.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS required; Bachelor of Science in Nursing is strongly preferred
• Masters in related field strongly preferred (MSN, MPH)
• Current licensure to practice in Massachusetts as a Registered Nurse is strongly preferred
• Minimum 5 years of direct experience working in in the field of nursing or a related clinical area is preferred
• Minimum 5 years of direct experience working in the field of implementation and/or quality improvement is preferred
• Global work experience preferred, specifically in low income countries
• Strong ability to gather, synthesize and translate stakeholders’ needs and provide recommendations
• Strong communication skills, including technical writing, public speaking, small and large group facilitation and training
• Experience working with a variety of stakeholders, including clinicians
• Experience leading/facilitating complex quality improvement initiatives in the healthcare setting
• Experience with managing concurrent implementation efforts with multiple teams
• Project management skills, including being detailed-focused and managing towards aggressive timelines.
• Able to maneuver through complex political situations to achieve desired outcomes
• Strong negotiation, decision making, and delegation skills
• Ability to travel as needed, both domestically and internationally (up to 20%)

Required Skills:

• The ability to establish and maintain meaningful relationships with a diverse group of professionals
• Proficiency in French, Spanish, or other languages strongly preferred (e.g. Swahili)
• Strong planning, problem solving and analytical skills
• Understanding of the principles of quality improvement and performance measurement
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; Familiarity with Google Drive is a plus

Competencies:

• Building Partnerships
• Embracing Change
• Pursuing Excellence
• Teamwork and Collaboration
• Organizational Awareness
• Cultural Awareness

To apply or for more information please click here.

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, and palliative care.

Under the Senior Platform Manager’s minimal supervision, the Coordinator will support the 3 subteams within the Science & Technology Platform (S&T).  Platforms at Ariadne are essentially Centers of Expertise that focus on: Innovation, Implementation, and Science and Technology. The ideal candidate should be team-oriented, flexible, intellectually curious, demonstrates a “roll up your sleeves” mindset, able to quickly master new skills and content, and capable of applying their problem-solving skills to novel situations.

Our Values:

• Respect for the Ariadne Labs mission, our community, each other, and ourselves;
• Stewardship of our work and resources;
• Pursuit of excellence, with a focus on continual improvement;
• A belief in a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to our work;
• A commitment to meaningful diversity and inclusion in our work and in the Ariadne Labs community.

Characteristics of People Who Thrive at Ariadne:

• empathy
• humility about the limits of one’s own expertise and experience
• intellectual curiosity
• agility
• self-discipline
• attention to detail
• willingness to roll up sleeves to get the job done

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide general administrative support for the S&T Platform including all 3 subteams; Data Science, Computer Science, and Implementation and Improvement Science
• Provide direct administrative support for the Director of Science & Technology and Senior Platform Manager including scheduling meetings with internal and external stakeholders, facilitating the  interviewing process, managing expenses, ordering meals, and preparing for weekly Platform meetings
• Compose, format, proofread, edit and/or prepare internal and external correspondences, slides, and reports
• Assist with the development and maintenance of S&T platform materials, including data collection tools, project management tracking systems, knowledge management databases, and presentations; Partner with team members to maximize efficiency of data collection and cleaning
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives such as enhancing Platform tracking systems  
• Sort and distribute team email accounts; respond to routine correspondence and request for information
• Request or acquire and track equipment or supplies necessary for S&T team members (e.g software licensing, computers, etc.); Support the team with IT-related questions including Google Drive, excel, and computer issues
• Assist with the planning of large meetings (domestic and international) including coordinating with hotels, venues, catering, and booking and coordinating travel for guests and team members and preparing meeting materials
• Coordinate meetings and conference calls, including scheduling, preparing meeting materials and taking meeting minutes
• Prepare and process reimbursement requests through the financial systems
• Assist with arranging space, facilities and service needs for on- and off-site programs including guest speakers, team meetings, research presentations, retreats, and group outings
• Represent Ariadne Labs professionally with staff, guests, callers, and external visitors
• Participate in the monthly Project Coordinator Affinity Group meetings
• Work with Ethics and Regulatory Manager to track human subjects certifications and IRB reviews
• Targeted literature searches on as needed
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as required

Qualifications

• BS or BA required, with relevant coursework preferred (e.g. public health)
• 2+ years work experience as a project assistant, administrative assistant
• Demonstrated interest in health or scientific systems research with a particular interest in learning and developing scientific research skills is highly preferred

Required Skills/Abilities/Competencies

• Professional demeanor, team player with a sense of humor
• Ability to work in a matrix structured environment, and be part of cross functional teams
• Comfortable working on multiple projects at one time
• Comfortable taking initiative in a dynamic, fast moving environment
• Experience with or willingness to learn Google business products (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar), Slack, and Smartsheets
• Proficiency with computers, spreadsheets, graphics, and database programs; Interest in learning new software and systems is a plus
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills
• Foundational writing and editing skills
• Strong interpersonal skills including a positive demeanor and customer service orientation
• Ability to work independently and utilizes strong interpersonal skills to problem-solve complex issues; Ability to identify roadblocks and effectively escalate issues as they arise
• Ability to learn project content quickly
• Ability to take direction and complete tasks as scoped on deadline
• Ability to set-up video and audio conference calls as well as facilitate virtual meetings
• Experience working in a matrix organization/environment is a plus

To apply please visit the Harvard Careers Portal and search for Requisition 47461BR.

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, palliative care, and primary health care.

Under the supervision of the Senior Developer, Architect, the Computer Science Full Stack Developer is responsible for helping support the entire product line for Ariadne Labs and its programs.  A primary focus of this role will be development of a scalable data architecture, reusable data pipelines and development and support of analytical reports for end users, but it is expected that the individual will contribute across the tech stack – UI, backend and the cloud infrastructure.  This is an excellent opportunity for the individual to learn and develop new skills in data architecture, architecting scalable applications , platform development, electronic medical data, mobile deployments, analytics, and healthcare technologies.

As part of the Labs’ matrix structure, the Full Stack Developer will sit on the Computer Sciences team within the Science & Technology platform and will work with research teams in a variety of health domains such as surgical safety, palliative care, safe childbirth, and primary healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with Science and Technology and project teams to design and build scalable, resilient and distributed applications.
• Develop and maintain scalable data architecture.
• Implement and maintain data quality and integrity across programs.
• Develop and maintain reporting and ETL environments and support the needs of end-user analysts
• Provide constructive feedback on data architecture design and data model decisions
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and internal tools.
• Implement high quality and reusable UI components from UI/UX designs
• Take part in monitoring and benchmarking of test and production systems.
• Provide foresight while planning sprints and product roadmap

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience building products with focus on data (SQL or NoSQL).
• 2+ years experience with Reporting/ETL tools
• Professional experience in one or more programming languages- Python, JavaScript, Java,C#,Go,.
• Proven experience with JavaScript, Angular/Angularjs, jQuery, or React.
• Experience with single page applications.
• Experience in both Object oriented and functional paradigms.
• Professional experience using both relational databases (SQL) and NoSQL data stores.
• Ability to pitch in on various database-related tasks, depending on need
• Experience creating products that use one or more AWS services.
• Solid understanding of software design patterns and data modeling.
• Competency in working within Linux environments.
• Understanding of best practices in networking and security.
• Familiarity with Linux containers and virtual machines a plus.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (bash/python/ruby) helpful.
• Background in computer science or related field preferred.

Preferred qualifications

• Demonstrated curiosity about the data and the business processes
• Understanding of research and/or healthcare domain
• Experience working in a matrix organization/environment

Our Values

Our core values are:

• Respect for the Ariadne Labs mission, our community, each other, and ourselves;
• Stewardship of our work and resources;
• Pursuit of excellence, with a focus on continual improvement;
• A belief in a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to our work;
• A commitment to meaningful diversity and inclusion in our work and in the Ariadne Labs community.

To apply or for more information please click here.

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, palliative care, and primary health care.

The vision of the BetterBirth Program at Ariadne Labs is to improve the quality of care, minimize complications, and end the preventable deaths of women and newborns through effective implementation of evidence-based, scalable solutions at the frontline of care. The BetterBirth Program portfolio of projects considers how to reduce maternal and neonatal risk through a range of strategies and across the spectrum of the quality of care ecosystem (individual patient to health system level). The portfolio is managed by the BetterBirth Leadership Team (a dyad made up of a science expert and a management expert). This dyad approach is replicated within each project within the portfolio; each project dyad reports into the BetterBirth Leadership Team.

A new element of the BetterBirth Program portfolio is a focus on infant feeding, with a new project expected to initiate operations in November 2018. The project will document infant feeding practices in four research sites across three Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), and will inform an understanding of what additional evidence is required to guide global recommendations around feeding for vulnerable infants. Findings will inform the next steps of the research work for the BetterBirth Program on infant feeding. As with all of the BetterBirth Program’s research and solutions development work, the infant feeding project includes a broad range of stakeholders and experts collaborating with Ariadne Labs to successfully carry complete this formative phase of the work.

At Ariadne Labs, the Program Manager is a critical role for developing strong partnerships, ensuring clear lines of communication among internal and external partners, and will be responsible for ensuring that the infant feeding work is delivered with excellence: on time, on budget, on scope, and with a high level of quality. In partnership with the BetterBirth Program Leadership and the Scientific Project Lead for the infant feeding work, the Program Manager provides both strategic and day-to-day guidance and support to members of the infant feeding project team.

The Program Manager for the infant feeding work is responsible for acting as a thought partner to the Scientific Project Lead of the infant feeding work in order to ensure project health and delivery. The Program Manager role is also a bridging function to ensure broad stakeholder input is considered and integrated into a standard scientific approach. The role must consider where appropriate flexibility in the approach is required to address feasibility, as well as to mitigate and manage project risk. This position also requires significant international travel and experience developing and maintaining senior-level external relationships through in-person and remote communication.

This position requires an individual who is skilled at working consistently and collaboratively within Ariadne Lab’s matrix organization to draw in the right expertise at the right time to support the work of the program. The Program Manager will report directly to the BetterBirth Program Leadership for guidance and management specific to their role, including annual performance reviews. The Program Manager will work in close partnership with the Scientific Project Lead and BetterBirth Program Leadership to provide leadership and management to the project staff & partners, and will be accountable to BetterBirth Program Leadership for maintaining program budgets & timelines. The BetterBirth Program Leadership is ultimately responsible for all decisions related to program strategy, scientific quality, external relations, budget, & staff workload.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with the Scientific Project Lead, provide thought partnership towards articulating a vision and strategy for the project that is understood within the BetterBirth Program team, within Ariadne Labs, and with the relevant external partners and stakeholders
• Cultivate and manage positive relationships with and between external stakeholders and partners across multicultural contexts to ensure appropriate input to, buy-in to, and execution of the work
• Identify potential risks, barriers, and opportunities for project work, solve problems as they arise, and escalate issues where appropriate to BetterBirth Program Leadership
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with key internal stakeholders to effectively secure Ariadne Labs resources and support, including insight to inform significant program decisions
• Represent the Project internally and externally, including composing and delivering regular project communications
• Develop and reinforce strong communication channels within the team and with the Scientific Project Lead and BetterBirth Program Leadership to build and maintain a positive team culture
• Manage, coach, and develop junior team members, including providing guidance on activities where the Program Manager is not deeply involved
• Lead project planning: quarterly and annual program planning; alignment of project goals, objectives and activities; and revising and updating of tasks, timelines, and deliverables as appropriate
• Collaborate with the BetterBirth Program’s Grants Manager to ensure program and project budgets are managed, tracked, and updated
• Ensure all work is undertaken in compliance with IRB and any other necessary ethics boards in collaboration with the CMO and / or Ariadne Labs’ ethics specialist
• Upon request, manage revenue and grant generating activities including: prioritization opportunities, proposal development and writing, resource coordination, and relationship cultivation

Ariadne Labs:

• Participate in, and encourage team member participation in, Ariadne Labs’ organizational meetings, updates, and community building activities
• Communicate Ariadne Labs strategic and organizational updates to team members, and communicate back to Ariadne Labs leadership on important organizational issues affecting team members where appropriate
• Share learnings from the infant feeding project with other Ariadne Labs program teams
• Model and reinforce Ariadne Labs’ values by serving as a steward of not only the feeding project, but of Ariadne Labs’ overall mission and goals

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 5+ years of related experience required

Additional Qualifications

• Master’s Degree strongly preferred
• Experience managing multiple projects and people simultaneously preferred
• Demonstrated interest in maternal health strongly preferred
• Experience working in Low or Middle Income Countries (LMIC) strongly preferred
• Familiarity with Google Drive (i.e. – Google docs, Google Sheets, etc.), Smartsheet, and other project management software tools preferred
• Experience in a role requiring leadership and collaboration both within an organization and with external partners, as well as a demonstrated experience working efficiently and diplomatically as part of a team effort preferred
• Experience managing and mentoring junior team members, both individually and in small teams preferred
• Experience directing, managing, and developing individual employees and small teams and identifying mentorship and professional opportunities for junior employees preferred
• Excellent project management skills with a demonstrated track record of delivering complex projects on time, on scope and on budget, preferably in a Low and Middle Income Country (LMIC) setting preferred
• Demonstrated experience foreseeing the implications of decision making as a tool for managing sensitive topics and key relationships preferred
• Demonstrated experience in relationship building with external partners, clients or customers and in managing complex partnerships preferred
• Experience working productively in a matrix organization, accessing the right input from the right people at the right time preferred
• Logical and rigorous thinker, with experience integrating new information rapidly, comprehending large amounts of information, drawing conclusions, and clearly communicating key findings preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including effective design and facilitation of meeting discussions preferred
• Experience working collaboratively and effectively in partnership and in team settings with colleagues of varying backgrounds and expertise preferred

To apply please visit the Harvard Careers Portal and search for Requisition 46883BR.

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, palliative care, and primary health care.

BetterBirth Program
The vision of the BetterBirth Program at Ariadne Labs is to improve the quality of care, minimize complications, and end the preventable deaths of women and newborns through effective implementation of evidence-based, scalable solutions at the frontline of care. The BetterBirth Program portfolio of projects considers how to reduce maternal and neonatal risk through a range of strategies, and across the spectrum of the quality of care ecosystem (individual patient to health system level).

BetterBirth Project Coordinator:
The BetterBirth Project Coordinator will be a member of the Ariadne Labs’ BetterBirth team. The BetterBirth Project Coordinator will be supervised by the Senior Program Manager, but will work closely with team members across the BetterBirth portfolio of projects to perform and coordinate a range of program support activities and tasks as general support to the BetterBirth portfolio and team. The growing team currently includes a scientific director, a senior program manager, a project manager, and a research specialist. The Project Coordinator will support the core team and collaborate with colleagues across the lab.

Project Coordination duties may include, but not be limited to:

• Provide administrative support for meetings and conference calls, including scheduling, drafting/preparing agendas, emails and meeting materials, and taking meeting minutes
• Maintain compliance with project institutional review boards, including maintaining updated protocol and study tools, tracking document changes, and reporting to review boards on modifications and annual reviews
• Assist with the planning of large meetings (domestic and international) including coordinating with hotels, venues, catering, and booking and coordinating travel for guests and team members and preparing meeting materials
• Coordinate travel logistics for team members and external partners (as needed). Logistics includes, but is not limited to arranging flights, hotels, meetings, and visas. Serves as principal internal and external administrative contact for stakeholders.
• Maintain contact information for a large network of external collaborators, partners, and project stakeholders
• Create and maintain tracking systems for a number of program needs including, but not limited to: publications; relationship management; ethics requirements; research tools and documentation
• Create and maintain filing systems, including version control and organization of program knowledge management system
• Assist with the development and maintenance of program materials, including data collection tools, project management tracking systems, knowledge management databases, and presentations
• Assist with the development of project work plans, timelines, and reports to funders
• Providing other support to BetterBirth projects as identified

Qualifications

• BS or BA required, with relevant coursework preferred (e.g. public health)
• 3+ years work experience as a project assistant, administrative assistant, research assistant, or similar experience required
• Travel coordination, preferably international experience, preferred
• Ability to process requests from across a team and prioritize work
• Professional demeanor, team player with a sense of humor
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including an orientation to relationship building and management for both internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to learn project content quickly
• Ability to take direction and complete tasks as scoped on deadline
• Ability to work independently, including the skills to ask necessary clarifying questions, and quickly take responsibility for mistakes and make them right
• Ability to work in a matrix structured environment, and be part of cross functional teams
• Comfortable working on multiple projects at one time
• Comfortable taking initiative in a dynamic, fast moving environment
• Experience with or willingness to learn Google business products (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar)

Ariadne Labs Values:

• Respect for the Ariadne Labs mission, our community, each other, and ourselves;
• Stewardship of our work and resources;
• Pursuit of excellence, with a focus on continual improvement;
• A belief in a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to our work;
• A commitment to meaningful diversity and inclusion in our work and in the Ariadne Labs community.

Characteristics of People Who Thrive at Ariadne Labs:

• Empathy
• Humility about the limits of one’s own expertise and experience
• Intellectual curiosity
• Agility
• Self-discipline
• Attention to detail
• Willingness to roll up sleeves to get the job done

To apply or for more information please click here.

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has core research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, palliative care, and primary health care.

The vision of the Better Evidence Initiative at Ariadne Labs is to ensure practitioners and trainees routinely access the best possible clinical evidence to provide the best possible care and treatment. Our goal is to ensure every practitioner can access the right clinical evidence at the right time to make the best decisions. Better Evidence includes the Practitioner Program, which is offering thousands of clinicians in resource-limited settings access to evidence-based clinical resources (EBCR) to impact care and treatment decisions. It also includes the Faculty and Trainee program, which is working to develop the habit of accessing the evidence among students and educators by facilitating the routine use of EBCR in medical schools.

We collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders across the world. The Better Evidence team includes the Director, a Program Manager, a Project Coordinator, and both graduate and undergraduate students.

Under the Program Manager’s supervision, the Project Coordinator will help to spread the project’s reach. This may include assisting with marketing and communication campaigns, doing a landscape analysis of other evidence based medical tools with potential to partner, providing customer service and responding to inquiries, reviewing and processing subscription donation applications, coordinating program assistants, maintaining updated promotional or development materials, staying abreast of emerging research that may inform efforts, and working with others to develop or strengthen data collection systems in addition to general administrative support for the team.

Our core values are:

Respect for the Ariadne Labs mission, our community, each other, and ourselves;

Stewardship of our work and resources;

Pursuit of excellence, with a focus on continual improvement;

A belief in a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to our work;

A commitment to meaningful diversity and inclusion in our work and in the Ariadne Labs community.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Communications and Marketing

• Assist with communication campaigns, including preparing regular newsletters, contacting users with updates and program messaging, training users or potential users in using evidence-based clinical resources, and executing campaigns to drive usage or uptake of evidence-based clinical resources
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders, including corporate partners, potential partners, medical education leaders and others; foster collaboration between international education leaders in Africa; this may include participating in meetings, drafting communications, facilitating contact, and potentially organizing calls or meetings
• Respond to inquiries about the program and provide customer service to users presenting questions, feedback, or the need for troubleshooting assistance
• Represent Ariadne Labs and the Better Evidence Initiative professionally with staff, guests, donors and field visits.

Research Support

• Aid in assessing the utility of various tools for better evidence and potential new offerings for the program
• Maintain the data collection system, i.e., RedCap, including survey updates, queries, and working with others to maximize efficiency of data collection and cleaning
• Create, format, and maintain slides, documents, tracking systems, and other materials; assist with slide or presentation development
• Support the team with the logistics, documentation, and organization of applying for grants; support the production and submission of papers for publication
• Conduct targeted literature searches as needed to inform the work

Project Administration

• In coordination with the Program Manager, develop project work plans, timelines, and reports to funders; Track project deliverables, identify roadblocks, and escalate issues as they arise
• Review applications for EBCR awards and facilitate awards with corporate partners
• Perform general administrative duties under minimal supervision at a high level of proficiency
• Process and track financial tasks including processing expenses and reimbursements, travel booking, and memberships for business-related activities
• Manage a system of record for all documentation, materials, resources, and correspondences to assure compliance
• Participate in the monthly Project Coordinator Affinity Group meetings
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as required; Assist other program teams as needed

Required Skills

• Microsoft Office Suite; Familiarity with Slack and the Google platform is preferred (e.g. Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Drive, etc.)
• Ability to set-up video and audio conference calls and virtual meetings
• Proficiency with personal computers, spreadsheet, graphic, and database programs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Positive, flexible, professional, and a can-do attitude
• Ability to work independently and utilize strong interpersonal skills to problem-solve complex issues
• Ability to identify roadblocks and effectively escalate issues as they arise
• Ability to develop timelines and meet competing deadlines on time and with high quality deliverables
• Ability to handle complex and confidential information with discretion
• Ability to learn project content quickly

Qualifications

• BS or BA required, with relevant coursework preferred (e.g. public health)
• 2+ years work experience as a project assistant, administrative assistant, or event coordinator required

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven office administration and customer service skills
• Travel coordination, preferably international experience
• Marketing and communications experience
• Experience working in a matrix organization/environment
• Familiarity with RedCap for building and managing databases
• Demonstrated interest in health systems

To apply or for more information please click here.

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, and palliative care.

Reporting directly to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), the Project Manager will serve as a strategic thought partner, managing ongoing and special projects with minimal oversight.  In addition, the main focus areas include managing the Ariadne Labs Research and Faculty Community, organizing meetings and events for the Ariadne Labs Core Faculty, playing a lead role in organizing the Ariadne Labs visual management system board and subsequent organization-wide meetings, drafting proposals, creating materials for presentations, and representing Ariadne Labs with senior-level donors and partners. The role is a blend of a chief of staff, project manager, and high-level executive assistant as preparing for and attending meetings with the CMO, taking notes and drafting documents and presentation, and helping the CMO prioritize and protect their time are key aspects of the role. S/he will work closely with Ariadne Labs faculty, research fellows, external stakeholders, scientific platforms, finance, communications, and talent development team members.

In addition to their role within the CMO Office, the Project Manager is expected to be an active member of the Ariadne Labs organization, supporting Ariadne Labs’ mission, participating in the success of Ariadne Labs as a whole, and demonstrating Ariadne Labs’ values on a daily basis.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Independently perform complex administrative duties under minimal supervision at the highest proficiency level in a work environment with competing priorities
• Manage and develop the Administrative Assistant and summer interns
• Manage the Ariadne Labs Research and Faculty Community which includes organizing talks, speakers, the membership process, and partnering with the Talent Team to create faculty and fellows internship programs
• Plan and facilitate the monthly visual management system board meetings and make improvements to the system based on ongoing feedback from key stakeholders
• Act as a liaison to the Ariadne Labs Core Faculty by creating clear communication channels between the CMO and faculty to build strong rapport and facilitate transparent information flow
• Write grants, proposals, papers, and external communications
• Function as Project Manager for key strategic initiatives and research projects to improve health care delivery as part of Ariadne’s mission and drive key internal administrative projects forward on time and on scope

• Maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with administration, medical staff, and research departments necessary to carry out the goals and projects of the CMO

• Create content, presentations, reports, and slides for internal and external meetings
• Prepare agendas and take minutes as needed

• Represent Ariadne Labs professionally and serve as a subject matter expert, principal administrative contact, and liaison for internal and external constituencies
• Plan and organize both onsite and offsite meetings and conferences with support from the internal Events Coordinator
• Solve issues and problems as they arise; clearing barriers to success for the team
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as required

Required Skills

• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite and/or Google Drive; Ability to learn SalesForce and Slack is preferred
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including effective facilitation of, and participation in meetings as well as proposal writing
• Strong critical thinking, attention to detail, and exceptional organizational skills are essential
• Proficiency with data analytics, spreadsheets, graphics, and database programs
• Ability to self-direct work and resolve complex situations tactfully and quickly
• Ability to develop timelines and meet competing deadlines on time and with deliverables of the highest caliber
• Ability to work independently with strong interpersonal skills to problem-solve complex issues
• Comfortable balancing and managing multiple competing priorities
• Ability to manage up and across a range of relationships in a matrix environment

Qualifications

• BA/BS is required, Masters degree is strongly preferred
• 5+ years of relevant work experience including administrative support for C-suite
• Experience working in a matrix organization/environment preferred
• Demonstrated interest in health systems innovation or quality improvement is highly preferred

Competencies

• Building Partnerships

• Embraces Change
• Pursues Excellence
• Teamwork and Collaboration
• Organizational Awareness
• Cultural Awareness

Starting Monday, November 26th to apply please visit the Harvard Careers Portal and search for Requisition 47555BR.  If you have any questions please email: people@ariadnelabs.org.

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions.   Ariadne Labs currently has research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, palliative care, and primary health care.

 Our Values

• Respect for the Ariadne Labs mission, our community, each other, and ourselves;
• Stewardship of our work and resources;
• Pursuit of excellence, with a focus on continual improvement;
• A belief in a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to our work;
• A commitment to meaningful diversity and inclusion in our work and in the Ariadne Labs community.

Characteristics of People Who Thrive at Ariadne Labs:

• Empathy
• Humility about the limits of one’s own expertise and experience
• Intellectual curiosity
• Agility
• Self-discipline
• Attention to detail
• Willingness to roll up sleeves to get the job done

The Research Specialist will be a key member of the Science and Technology team at Ariadne Labs. The Research Specialist will be based in Boston and work to accelerate Ariadne Labs’ work to improve healthcare outcomes using innovative effective solutions. The person hired into this position would report to the Science and Technology Senior Manager and work closely with the Associate Director of Science and Technology and across the Lab.

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• In collaboration with the Science & Technology team, develop research approaches (including qualitative), activities and methodologies that will result in high quality, impactful study results and that will lead future direction of Ariadne Labs research
• Work with project teams and other researchers to develop qualitative study design, analysis, and tool development including semi-structured interview and focus group guides, analytic plans, and strategic recommendations
• Act as the lead moderator/interviewer in the gathering of insights through qualitative research methods, primarily through focus group moderation and/or in-depth interviews
• Analyze qualitative research findings and interpret the results to create insightful reports and presentations, and to make recommendations on future direction of research
• Lead the writing of methods and results sections for manuscripts, abstracts, program reports, and new grant proposals
• Contribute to the development of monitoring and evaluation plans for Ariadne Labs’ projects, including supporting protocol development in collaboration with the Data Science Team; identifying indicators/metrics, data sources, and mixed methods analysis options (quantitative and qualitative); and utilization of data for quality improvement of our programs – using broad-based research skills, experience, and expertise
• Conduct other related tasks as needed (such as proposal-writing, mentoring and training junior staff, etc.)

Additional Qualifications

• Master’s Degree and/or PhD in public health or DrPH, anthropology, social science, evaluation, or other relevant field preferred
• Experience developing interview guides and structured surveys strongly preferred
• Experience conducting semi-structured interviews and focus groups strongly preferred
• Experience with qualitative software packages preferred
• Excellent collaboration skills and experience working with multidisciplinary teams strongly preferred
• Experience with qualitative packages strongly preferred
• Experience in leading qualitative methods including study design, implementation, analysis, and manuscript development strongly preferred
• Experience in guiding the development of conceptual frameworks for new projects preferred
• Experience in implementation science and/or monitoring and evaluation preferred
• An understanding of mixed-methods approaches, specifically in public health preferred
• Experience working in a multi-functional, matrixed environment preferred
• Experience and interest in mentoring junior team members preferred
• Experience synthesizing complex information and translating it for a lay audience preferred
• Flexibility, and experience managing under pressure preferred
• Experience building collaborative relationships both internally and externally preferred
• Experience rapidly responding to changing needs of programs preferred

To apply please visit the Harvard Careers Portal and search for Requisition 46746BR.

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, palliative care, and primary health care.

The vision of the Delivery Decisions Initiative (DDI) at Ariadne Labs is to ensure every person can start or grow their family with dignity by accessing childbirth care that is safe, supportive, and empowering. Our work draws from a broad range of expertise, and combines applied sciences, systems engineering, and strategic social advocacy to drive impact.

The DDI portfolio includes the Team Birth Project, a care process innovation that is designed to improve childbirth outcomes in any setting by ensuring families, birth attendants, and clinicians are working together as high performing teams. We are currently running a trial to test the feasibility of this approach with hundreds of clinicians and tens of thousands of families in three geographies across the United States. In addition to this trial, the Team Birth Project is continually informed by discovery-oriented research, often in collaboration with diverse partners, including architects, start-ups, and software developers. DDI is equally committed to building and driving a social movement that empowers women as participants in their own care, supports their wellbeing through community investment, and removes structural causes of inequity. We collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders across the world and anticipate significant growth of the program over the next three years. The Delivery Decisions team includes the Director, an Associate Director, a Senior Program Manager, Associate Faculty, Research Analysts, Project Coordinator(s), post-doctoral fellows, and both graduate and undergraduate students.  

At Ariadne Labs, the Senior Program Manager is a critical leadership role and responsible for ensuring that the work is delivered with excellence:  on time, on budget, on scope, and with the highest possible quality. In partnership with the Director and Associate Director, the Senior Program Manager provides both strategic and operational guidance and support to members of the Delivery Decisions team. The Senior Program Manager is responsible for creating an integrated and consistent view of the work of the Delivery Decisions Initiative, across all of its individual projects and team members, including providing updates to Ariadne Lab’s leadership on program progress and project health.

Senior Program Managers are considered senior representatives of Ariadne Labs, its mission and its values, both internally and externally. This position requires an individual who is skilled at working consistently and collaboratively within Ariadne Lab’s matrix organization to draw in the right expertise at the right time to support the work of the program, e.g. Revenue and Development, Finance, Communications, Innovation, Science & Technology, Implementation, and Talent Development. This position requires some domestic and global travel and an ability to develop and maintain senior level external relationships through in-person and remote communication. Within the Ariadne Labs matrix organization, the Senior Program Manager will report directly to the Director of Project Management for guidance and management specific to their role, including annual performance reviews. The Senior Program Manager will work in close partnership with the Director and Associate Director to provide leadership and management to the Delivery Decisions staff, and will be accountable to Director for maintaining program budgets and timelines. The Delivery Decisions Director is ultimately responsible for all decisions related to program strategy, scientific quality, external relations, budget, and staff workload.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Delivery Decisions

• As a member of the Delivery Decisions leadership team, communicate the vision and strategy for the Delivery Decisions Initiative within the Delivery Decisions team, Ariadne Labs, and among relevant external partners and stakeholders
• Represent the Delivery Decisions Initiative effectively internally and externally, including composing and delivering messages regarding key program decisions and milestones
• Develop and reinforce strong communication channels within the team, Ariadne Labs’ platform teams, and with the Director build and maintain a positive team culture
• Support the professional development of Delivery Decisions team members including managing professional goals and workloads
• Identify potential barriers and opportunities for program and project work, solve problems as they arise, and elevate issues where appropriate to the Director or to Ariadne Lab’s leadership
• Lead integrated strategic planning and capacity building during a key phase of growth: annual program planning, alignment of program goals with project objectives, hiring, revising and updating of tasks, timelines, and deliverables as appropriate
• Manage revenue and grant generating activities for the Delivery Decisions portfolio including: prioritization of opportunities, proposal development and writing, resource coordination, and relationship cultivation
• Collaborate with the Delivery Decisions Grants Manager to ensure program and project budgets are managed, tracked, and updated
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with key internal stakeholders to effectively secure Ariadne Labs resources and support, including insight to inform significant program decisions
• Ensure all work is undertaken in compliance with IRB and any other necessary ethics boards in collaboration with the CMO and / or Ariadne Labs’ ethics specialist

Ariadne Labs

• Participate in, and encourage team member participation in, Ariadne Labs’ organizational meetings, updates, and community building activities
• Communicate Ariadne Labs strategic and organizational updates to team members, and communicate back to Ariadne Labs leadership on important organizational issues affecting team members where appropriate
• Share learnings from the Delivery Decisions Initiative with other Ariadne Labs program teams
• Model and reinforce Ariadne Lab’s values by serving as a steward of not only the Delivery Decisions Initiative, but of Ariadne Lab’s overall mission and goals

Skills / Abilities / Competencies Required:

• Excellent project management skills with a demonstrated track record of delivering projects on time, on scope and on budget, preferably in a healthcare setting
• Ability to work productively in a matrix organization, accessing the right input from the right people at the right time
• Demonstrated ability to direct, manage and develop individual employees and small teams and identify mentorship and professional opportunities for junior employees
• Logical and rigorous thinker, able to integrate new information rapidly, comprehend large amounts of information, draw conclusions, and clearly communicate key findings
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including effective design and facilitation of meeting discussions
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively in partnership and in team settings with colleagues of varying backgrounds and expertise
• Effective relationship building skills with external partners, clients or customers

Qualifications:

• 5 – 10 years of program management or research coordination experience, including at least 3 years experience in managing multiple projects and people simultaneously
• Experience in a role requiring leadership and collaboration both within an organization and with external partners, as well as a demonstrated ability to work efficiently and diplomatically as part of a team effort
• Experience managing and mentoring junior team members, both individually and in small teams
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
• Proficiency with Google Drive (e.g. Google docs, Google Sheets, etc.), and familiarity with Smartsheet and/or other project management software tools preferred
• Demonstrated interest in maternal health

Our Values:

• Respect for the Ariadne Labs mission, our community, each other, and ourselves;
• Stewardship of our work and resources;
• Pursuit of excellence, with a focus on continual improvement;
• A belief in a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to our work;
• A commitment to meaningful diversity and inclusion in our work and in the Ariadne Labs community.

Characteristics of People Who Thrive at Ariadne:

• humility about the limits of one’s own expertise and experience
• intellectual curiosity
• agility
• self-discipline
• attention to detail
• willingness to roll up sleeves to get the job done

Please send resume and cover letter to ggalvin@ariadnelabs.org

To apply please visit the Harvard University Careers Portal and search “Requisition 47156BR”

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, and palliative care.

The Statistical Analyst will sit on the Data Science team on the Science & Technology platform and will work with the Senior Statisticians and Ariadne Labs’ study teams to manipulate and analyze clinical data sets of existing and new projects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform data management functions including preparation of analytic data sets and detection of outliers and potential data quality issues.
• Manipulation and analysis of clinical data sets, including administrative data.
• Design and perform complex statistical analyses in consultation with study investigators and senior  statistician. Analyses will incorporate quantitative methods including linear regression, logistic regression, Cox regression, and regression methods for clustered and repeated measures data.
• Provide study team with succinct summary of the statistical methods and data analyses in a readily  comprehensible fashion.
• Work with study team to communicate process and results.
• Carefully document all programming, data management, and decision steps, which will serve as a technical  appendix to project deliverables. The documentation of all statistical programs will ensure reproducibility of any scientific findings.
• Write complex programs using Base SAS®, SAS Macro Language, SAS ODS facility, SAS GRAPH, SAS STAT.
• Meet with study team routinely to discuss status of analysis, encountered issues, etc.
• Participate in the preparation of statistical methods sections of grants and manuscripts under mentorship  of Senior Statistician.
• Perform sample size and power calculations when designing new studies.
• Apply knowledge of both statistics and study design to inform protocols and study execution.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of statistical programming experience in SAS
• Master’s degree in biostatistics, statistics, or public health preferred
• Working knowledge of STATA, R, Python and/or SQL preferred but not required
• Knowledge and application of Bayesian methods preferred but not required

Required skills and experience:

• Strong database and overall computer skills
• Demonstrated analytic skills to problem solve effectively
• Excellent communication skills
• Fluency with healthcare data and/or working knowledge of claims data preferred but not required
• Ability to work in a matrix structured environment and be part of cross functional teams
• Comfortable working on multiple projects at one time
• Strong team player

To apply please visit the Harvard University Careers Portal and search “Requisition 46834BR”

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, palliative care, and primary health care.

Under the direction of the Director, the public health writer will be responsible for generating stories and other forms of content for the website, publications, reports, and external communications. We are seeking a writer interested in developing a deep understanding of Ariadne’s research, implementation projects and mission in order to write with authority for public audiences. The writer will be expected to comfortably read research publications, conduct background research and conduct internal and external interviews in order to craft profiles, features, news stories, announcements, research summaries, blog posts and other content to support organizational communications.  Assignments typically require a sophisticated, compelling writing style and capacity to translate scientific content into engaging stories. A writing sample is required for consideration.

Our Values

Our core values are:

• Respect for the Ariadne Labs mission, our community, each other, and ourselves;
• Stewardship of our work and resources;
• Pursuit of excellence, with a focus on continual improvement;
• A belief in a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to our work;
• A commitment to meaningful diversity and inclusion in our work and in the Ariadne Labs community.

Required Skills

• Proven competency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Familiarity with the Google information environment is preferred (e.g. Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Drive, etc.)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Positive, flexible, professional, and a can-do attitude
• Ability to self-direct work
• Experience conducting interviews with scientists, physicians and researchers
• Demonstrated experience at writing about medical, health or science-related topics
• Experience writing a wide variety of content for print and digital media

Qualifications

• BA/BS in English, journalism, public health or related field
• At least 3 years of relevant writing experience
• Experience working in a matrix organization/environment preferred
• Experience working in an academic or healthcare setting strongly preferred

To apply please visit the Harvard University Careers Portal and search “Requisition 47600BR”

We are searching for a dynamic, Healthcare Systems Engineer (SE) to support innovations, research, and operational projects at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Ariadne Labs. The position will be primarily based within the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (70%), and will spend a portion of his/her effort (30%) at Ariadne Labs.

At BWH, s/he will support and manage the research and operational efforts of our AHRQ-funded Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (PSLL) – a collaboration between the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Northeastern University’s Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute. The ideal candidate will apply a range of healthcare systems engineering and operations research methods to analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate innovative solutions to improve safety, quality, and value, many involving the use of digital health tools and clinical care process redesign. Additionally, s/he will develop and build collaborative relationships with key administrative, quality and safety, information system, clinical leadership.

This candidate will also serve as a strategic advisor to Ariadne Labs, providing a SE perspective as they develop an innovation platform to support research and operational projects. Ariadne Labs, a center for health system innovation at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, was founded 6 years ago by Dr Atul Gawande. Its mission is to create scalable solutions for the biggest problems in health care delivery. Using a tested model of design-test-spread, Ariadne has had success in improving healthcare delivery across the globe. Ariadne’s work to create and spread the WHO Safe Surgery Checklist and the WHO Safe Childbirth checklist has saved lives and reduced suffering. Ariadne currently has over 30 projects in various phases of design-test-spread. Visit www.ariadnelabs.org

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with a large, interdisciplinary research and implementation team including clinicians, informatics professionals, health services investigators, and institutional stakeholders at BWH to analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate novel digital health solutions to improve safety.
• Lead the application of quantitative and qualitative system engineering methods to each phase of the project using a variety of data analytic and computational approaches, process observation and flow mapping, lean/six sigma methods, and other techniques where applicable. Support the application of user-centered design approaches for iterative design, development, and implementation of digital health interventions deployed across the hospital.
• Collaborate with hospital clinical operations teams to translate research and innovation projects into clinical practice by leading the planning and execution of process improvement initiatives.
• Coach project stakeholders on planning and implementing effective workflow support and data capture strategies and provide system engineering expertise in process engineering for clinical operations teams. Interact frequently with senior leaders, staff, and other clinical staff to effectively implement process improvement initiatives.
• Work closely with the Innovation Platform at Ariadne to help research and design new tools for health system improvements. The SE will work with the Ariadne faculty, investigators and staff to add a SE perspective in understanding current state of healthcare delivery and work to redesign solutions and workflows to create improved care. The SE will work primarily on the design phase of our “arc” of work but will also think through the testing and implementation phases to help facilitate the implementation of the new tools and processes.
• Collaborate with the system engineering professional students and post-doctorate candidates from Northeastern’s Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute on academic activities and outputs.
• Present project data, analyses, and updates to key stakeholder groups independently, and other administrative and scholarly activities as requested.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• M.S., post-doctorate or equivalent degree, preferably in System Engineering and Health Science or related field;
• 3+ years of hands-on experience analyzing, designing, developing, and implementing and evaluating solutions, preferably in healthcare field SKILLS/ ABILITIES/ COMPETENCIES REQUIRED: (MUST be realistic, neither overstated nor understated, and related to the essential functions of the job.) Required:
• Superior interpersonal skills in the areas of presence and team work;
• Superior verbal and written communication skills, and ability to exchange ideas with non-technical stakeholders (e.g., physicians, nurses);
• Superior ability to grasp functional concepts quickly and exceptionally attentive to detail;
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, including a creative and self-motivated mindset;
• Practical experience with system engineering processes, particularly iterative design, workflow and problem analysis, and implementation of solutions. Preferred:
• Proficiency in Microsoft office applications (Word, Excel, Access, Visio)
• Experience with Epic Client Systems or other clinical applications
• Experience with developing/implementing/evaluating healthcare related application
• Experience with training/supporting system end-users
• Knowledge of health systems engineering methodologies and processes
• Familiarity with user-centered design approaches, software development lifecycles, programming

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• 40 hours/week (28 hours/week at BWH; 12 hours/week at Ariadne Labs);
• No hazardous material exposure;
• No exposure to dangerous or adverse working conditions;

For more information or to apply please click here.

Ariadne Labs is seeking rising college seniors and recent graduates to join our 2019 Summer Internship Program. This 10 week program will run from June 3, 2019- August 9, 2019. All interested candidates must submit a resume and a statement of purpose for consideration. Applications are due no later than January 4, 2019 and should you be selected, live interviews will take place in January and February. The goal is to extend offers by March.

2019 Summer Internship Application

If you are a medical or graduate student (e.g. postdoc, masters candidate, fellow) who is interested in learning more about Ariadne Labs and the opportunities that may be available to you, please complete the form below. If your skills and interests match our teams’ needs you will be contacted directly. We also encourage you to visit Ariadne Labs careers page periodically to view the most recent opportunities that are available.

Medical and Graduate Student Interest Form