Project Manager I, Public Health Informatics
The Broad Institute
Contract
On-site
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
General information
Location
Cambridge, MA
Ref #
43579
Job Family
Research
Date published
01/20/2026
Time Type
Full time
Pay Range
$83,000.00/yr - $116,333.00/yr
Description & Requirements
POSITION SUMMARY
The Public Health Informatics project manager supports the design, implementation, and coordination of data and surveillance activities for the Sentinel Program. Working with epidemiologists, data engineers, computational scientists, field teams, and global partners, this role ensures that data systems, analytics, and workflows are technically robust, operationally feasible, and aligned with national needs. The PM guides both the user-facing and back-end components of tool development to ensure solutions are intuitive, reliable, and scalable.
Reporting to the Sentinel Program Manager and collaborating closely with technical and country leads, the ideal candidate brings strong public health informatics expertise with the organizational and strategic skills needed to keep complex, multi-partner data efforts aligned and moving forward. This role benefits from someone who is familiar with code, though their main responsibilities center on coordination and overseeing system design and implementation rather than tool development.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Management
- Serve as the project manager for Sentinel Connect implementation across several countries, ensuring activities remain on schedule and aligned with program objectives
- Ensure appropriate communication with project stakeholders regarding timelines and status, deadlines, data requirements, reporting, logistics and all other project-related issues
- Facilitate project meetings to align the team around goals and communicate blocking issues
- Maintain organized documentation, workflows, and communication channels that support efficient cross-team and cross-country coordination.
Public Health Informatics & Systems Design
- Map workflows and user needs across diagnostic, clinical, and surveillance activities to understand data flows and identify opportunities for improvement
- Define system requirements and ensure informatics tools align with project priorities, national needs, and operational realities; work closely with technical partners to guide solution design
- Ensure back-end data structures and databases are appropriate for current use cases and scalable for future needs
- Ensure front-end components (dashboards, reporting interfaces, user workflows) are intuitive, usable, and tailored to intended audiences
- Map data flows and conduct ad hoc analyses for systems performance assessments
- Provide advisory support on data privacy, ethics and governance related to Sentinel data collection and use
Partner Engagement & Capacity Strengthening
- Serve as a technical resource for the Sentinel team, as well as ministries of health, research institutes, and implementing partners
- Cultivate strong working relationships with ministries of health, implementation partners, and internal teams, ensuring clear communication, aligned expectations, and smooth coordination across all technical and operational activities.
- Support consultations, requirements gathering, collaborative problem-solving, tool deployment, and capacity-building related to surveillance data systems
- Ensure alignment with national priorities, partner needs, and broader public health strategies
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
- Master’s degree in public health informatics, epidemiology, data science, public health, or related field
- Minimum three years of working experience in a related field, ideally in the infectious disease space.
- Experience supporting and building relationships with ministries of health and/or working in low-resource settings
- Demonstrated ability to map workflows, gather user requirements, and translate operational needs into system specifications
- Familiarity with data architectures, databases, concepts of interoperability, and digital health tools
- Experience working with multidisciplinary, international teams to guide tool development and/or system implementation
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey technical information to non-technical audiences
- Strong organizational, stakeholder and project management skills
- Willingness to travel internationally (~25%) to support partner needs and field work
PREFERRED QUALITIES
- Ability to conduct basic epidemiological analyses on collected clinical and surveillance data
- Understanding of data governance, privacy, and ethical considerations in public health
- Prior involvement in proposal development and donor reporting
- Ability to move fluidly between strategic thinking and hands-on technical problem solving
- Comfort thriving in a fast-moving, collaborative, mission-driven environment
The expected base pay range for this position as listed above is based on a 40 hour per week schedule. Broad provides pay ranges representing its reasonable and good faith estimate of what the organization reasonably expects to pay for a position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will vary based on factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, education, qualifications, and other factors permissible by law.
At Broad, your base pay is just one part of a comprehensive total rewards package. From day one, this role offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; a 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending and health savings accounts; at least 13 paid holidays; winter closure; paid time off; parental and family care leave; and an employee assistance program, among other Broad benefits.
The Broad Institute is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
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