PIH : Senior Project Manager, Massachusetts – Boston
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Location:
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Salary:negotiable / YEAR
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Job type:FULL_TIME
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Posted:3 hours ago
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Category:Management and Strategy, Programme and Project Management
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Deadline:21/12/2025
JOB DESCRIPTION
Description
Position Title: Senior Project Manager, Massachusetts
Position Classification: Regular; Exempt; Full-Time; 40 hours
Reports To: Director, Massachusetts, PIH-US
Location: Employees in this role can work from our Boston, MA office, or remotely within MA. Employees should plan to work in-person at various community sites up to 3-4 days per week, including Boston, Brockton, and New Bedford. This position is grant funded for 3 years and is expected to continue beyond the grant period.
Please note that we do not sponsor U.S. work authorization for this role. Candidates must be able to legally work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.
Position Overview:
The Senior Project Manager will lead the project management of PIH-US’ work advancing and strengthening the community health workforce (CHW) in Massachusetts through policy and coalition building.
The Senior Project Manager will work collectively with key stakeholders to enhance health outcomes for community members by building a well-equipped, supported and coordinated community health workforce. The Senior Project Manager will support state and local organizations in advancing their advocacy agendas, helping to shape state-level policy reforms while expanding storytelling and evaluation capacities to showcase the impact of the community health workforce in promoting health equity.
Responsibilities:
Statewide Policy & Coalition Building (45%)
- Manage and build a coalition to support a strong and sustainable community health workforce.
- Cultivate and facilitate collaborative relationships with additional local community organizations, coalitions, government departments, healthcare providers, and other relevant stakeholders in Massachusetts (MA).
- Manage the implementation of advocacy strategies that support a sustainable and resilient community health workforce in Massachusetts by promoting state-wide policy that bolsters their roles, expands capacity for workforce monitoring, and amplifies their impact.
- Collaborate with PIH-US MA and PIH-US Advocacy teams to advance other policy priorities informed by place-based accompaniment.
Coordinate with PIH US’ community-based partners in MA to enhance a strong and sustainable community-health workforce. (45%)
- Facilitate and organize meetings among community-based partners, both in person and virtually, to improve the integration of CHW-supported health and social services within local public health departments, ensuring that community members have greater access to the resources they need.
- Manage, in collaboration with PIH-US’ Monitoring & Evaluation team, the data collection and evaluation processes to inform best practices and guidance for engagement with local stakeholders.
- Identify additional programmatic partners in Massachusetts; create and implement additional areas of technical assistance and strategic direction.
- Track project performance using project metrics for internal and external reporting
- Provide regular reports on progress to PIH-US MA leadership and drafting of external program reports.
Project Management and Administration (10%)
- Provide regular reports on program and represent the PIH-US MA team internally; liaise and collaborate with other place-based teams and cross-site colleagues including advocacy, monitoring & evaluation, grants and partnerships, and communications.
- Lead and support other projects as identified throughout the year.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or 4 years of work experience; additionally, 5-8 years of role-related professional experience
- Experience working with community health workers or community-based health programs
- Knowledge of local public health landscape in Massachusetts and Massachusetts legislative system
- Experience working with external partners in a leadership capacity with demonstrated effectiveness at building, managing, and maintaining diverse coalitions
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a dynamic environment and handle multiple priorities effectively
- Strong communication and writing skills including the ability to communicate complex messages to diverse audiences
- Exceptional diplomatic and people skills and ability to build professional relationships with a range of stakeholders with attention to equitable participation across diverse communities
- Strategically minded with an ability to think creatively to achieve identified goals
- Sound judgment and ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- Exhibits a strong work ethic, an asset-based approach to problem-solving, and collaborates with a sense of possibility
About PIH-US
Partners In Health United States (PIH-US) is the U.S. arm of Partners In Health, a nonprofit, social justice organization. We envision a future in which health is a human right, not a privilege in the United States. We seek the transformation of health and social systems so that structures of oppression no longer determine the quality or length of a person’s life.
PIH-US accompanies visionary public health and community partners working to build strong, integrated, community-led health systems across the US. PIH-US currently supports local health departments, health providers, policymakers, and community leaders to define clear health and racial equity agendas and provides technical advising and operational support to deliver on those commitments. Our current focus communities include Montgomery, Alabama; Immokalee, Florida; Newark, New Jersey; Massachusetts; North Carolina; and Pima County, Arizona. We generate and disseminate learnings from across this network and center and uplift the voices of community partners to advance policy change and investment in stronger community health systems nationally.
Organizational Profile
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. PIH focuses on those who would not otherwise have access to quality health care. PIH partners with the world’s leading academic institutions to create rigorous evidence that shapes more sound and all-inclusive global health policies. PIH also supports local governments’ efforts to build capacity and strengthen national health systems.
As of today, PIH runs programs in 11 countries (Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Navajo Nation, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, United States), where it provides direct care to millions of patients, through public facilities and community engagement.
Partners In Health (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.
Partners In Health participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
Pay and Benefits
The expected starting salary range for new hires in this position is between $80,000-85,000/year and may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market for the position, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The position belongs to a class of roles that have a salary range between $80,000 and 95,000/year. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan with employer match, as well as participate in organization-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability insurance, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Full time employees will receive 15 days of vacation, 12 sick days, 3 personal days, and 3 volunteer days in addition to paid time off during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, the week of July 4th, and 11 additional holidays annually.
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: No requirements
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