Program Officer - NAM Leadership Consortium

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About the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), established in 1970 under the name Institute of Medicine (IOM), is an independent organization of eminent professionals from diverse fields including health and medicine; the natural, social, and behavioral sciences; and beyond. With the authority of the 1863 Congressional Charter of the National Academy of Sciences requested and signed by President Abraham Lincoln, the NAM serves alongside the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering as adviser to the nation and the international community. The NAM’s mission is to advance science, inform policy, and catalyze action to achieve human health, equity, and well-being.

About the Program

To meet the demands of 21st Century health challenges, the NAM Leadership Consortium (LC) brings together leaders from major public and private organizations across all sectors of the nation’s health system—clinicians, patients, health care institutions, public health, technology and data leaders, scientists, manufacturers, payers, employers, and regulators. Working through the National Academies’ Congressionally chartered mandate to provide independent, trusted, and science-based counsel, the LC is uniquely positioned to align these sectors in advancing a continuously learning and improving health system. At a time of profound fragmentation, it stands as the only national entity explicitly dedicated to coordinating action across organizations to achieve transformative system effectiveness, affordability, and fairness. The Consortium’s strength lies in the shared commitment of its members to collective progress—recognizing that advances in science, informatics, incentives, and culture are interdependent and must be pursued together. At its core, the LC is grounded in building and sustaining trust—by ensuring that the system’s design, priorities, and performance are centered on the needs, preferences, and goals of the people it serves.

The members of the LC work cooperatively through leadership networks and four Action Collaboratives operating within the four Learning Health System (LHS) domains (science, informatics, incentives, culture): the Evidence & Data Action Collaborative (science); Digital Health & AI Action Collaborative (informatics); Value Incentives & Systems Action Collaborative (incentives); and the Trust & Engagement Action Collaborative (culture). The LHS Strategy Group, comprised of leaders of various aspects of LHS advancement, provides guidance to LHS infrastructure and communication strategies of the LC.

About the Position

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) seeks a highly qualified and motivated individual with unique skills, forward-thinking, insights, and proactive initiative to provide intellectual and programmatic guidance for the strategically important activities of the NAM Leadership Consortium (LC). As the staff lead for the NAM LHS Strategy Group and related Consortium Member programming, this person works in partnership with all LC staff to ensure that the vision of the LHS and its Shared Commitments are infused throughout the activities of the NAM and the LC. This individual will play a pivotal role in the mission of the LC, the NAM LHS, and the NAM. This position involves efforts ranging from successful delivery and impact of Collaborative programming and projects on high impact, cutting edge issues, resulting in expert NAM publications, scientific symposia, surveys and assessments, and efforts to grow the identity and cohesion of a new field. Projects currently underway include: those related to spread and scale of the Shared Commitments throughout the activities of all health stakeholder organizations; supporting and guiding the activities of the LHS Strategy Group Working Groups on Communication, Infrastructure, and the Business Case; and fostering the engagement of LC Members with all organizations committed to leading and supporting advancement of the LHS and Shared Commitments.

The successful candidate for this position will have demonstrated commitment to leading health science and policy progress for the public good; strong instincts for the key health policy principles and possibilities; ease in engaging the resolution of complex problems and issues; excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills, with strong capacity to lead and interact with all stakeholder levels; ability to raise funds and to operate with substantial latitude for judgement and action; and solid insights on non-partisan health policy strategies. Most strong candidates for this position will have a substantial experience and comfort level in topic areas relevant to the primary operative domains for LHS advancement: data science, emerging artificial intelligence tools (e.g., AI algorithm development, GPT-5), health financing, individual and community trust and engagement.

Job Description:

Essential Job Duties:

1. Project Development, Management & Administration: Assists in the development of program strategy. Ensures the program meets objectives. Leads working group calls and conducts workshops, forums, and other meetings including overseeing meeting logistics, developing agendas, inviting and participants. Motivates and manages a diverse group of staff and external consultants. May lead studies, research programs, grant programs, fellowships, etc.

2. Advanced Research and Writing Activities: Prepares background papers and technical summaries. Responsible for synthesizing and editing research findings and technical data. Facilitates and coordinates responses to review for the project/program publications. Manages the development of any additional written products connected to meetings. Conducts background research on topics for new studies, programs, or activities. Assists the Director in the writing of prospectuses and proposals for new and continued funding.

3. Communication and Dissemination: Creates and maintains materials, websites, and social media channels. Works with the communications team to plan communication-related activities for the project. Collaborates with the Director and manages the dissemination activities of the project. Represents the unit and committee within and outside the National Academies.

4. Publications: Prepares draft reports which include writing sections of report based on committee input. Edits and reviews the report for format, consistency, and grammar. Manages the response to review, responds to comments and concerns of editors, and prepares the final manuscript for publication.

NONESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES

• Related duties and special projects as assigned.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Advanced knowledge of policy issues in a related discipline. Strong program/project management skills. Ability to understand and share technical/scientific issues with diverse audiences. Ability to solve intellectual problems that are varied and complex using originality and ingenuity. Ability to operate using appreciable latitude for independent judgment and action. Ability to manage and develop projects. Ability to work successfully in a team environment and to form and maintain effective teams. Experience working in complex environments with a high degree of organizational effectiveness. Ability to develop relationships with co-workers, employees in other National Academies' departments, and external constituents through effective communication. Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to effectively interact with all levels of staff and constituents.

Minimum Education/Training Requirements: Master's degree in a related field or equivalent knowledge.

Minimum Experience: Three years of related professional experience. Demonstrated basic proficiency in conveying scientific/technical/policy information in verbal and written form.

Physical Capabilities: Ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time. Ability to travel.

Required Licenses, Certification or Registration: None.

Supervisory Responsibilities/Controls: Reports to the Director of Leadership Consortium. General direction is provided. Supervises project/junior program staff with minimal oversight.

Work Environment: Hybrid Office/Telecommute environment, expected onsite percentage 60%, with occasional travel between National Academies’ facilities and to off-site meeting/sponsor locations.

Compensation & Benefits: An estimated compensation range for this position is $88,450 - $110,560. Compensation offered to the selected candidate will be based on the candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and work experience, commensurate with compensation of current employees in comparable positions with similar knowledge, skills, and work experience, and subject to budget parameters. Note it is not typical for a candidate to be hired at the higher end of the range.   This is a benefits-eligible position.  Our Benefits Plan offers competitive and comprehensive benefit options, including medical, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, disability coverage, retirement and savings benefits, leave benefits such as paid holidays and paid personal leave, transportation subsidies, and education assistance.  For more information, please click  here.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of the National Academies to recruit, hire, transfer, compensate, and promote people in all job categories and to administer all other personnel actions, terms and conditions of employment in a manner that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. It is also the institution's policy to recruit, hire, promote, and provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities and covered veterans who are otherwise qualified.

 

Disclaimer

The above information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this job.  It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.  Some functions in this description may be specific to a particular unit of the National Academies and not applicable to other units.

Job Family:

PROG

Employee Type:

Employee

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

37.5

City/State:

Washington, District of Columbia