Director of Strategy

Director of Strategy & Operations, Penn Medicine Nudge Unit

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Posted Job Title
Director of Strategy & Operations, Penn Medicine Nudge Unit

Job Profile Title
Director C

Job Description Summary
The Penn Medicine Nudge Unit is currently recruiting a talented and proven leader to be its Director of Strategy and Operations. The Penn Medicine Nudge Unit is an exciting and fast-paced opportunity for motivated, entrepreneurial individuals to improve health and effect systemic change at Penn Medicine and across the healthcare industry.

The Director of Strategy and Operations will be responsible for leading Nudge Unit staff in executing projects across the spectrum of stakeholder engagement, contextual research, intervention design, rapid experimentation, and implementation. The Director of Strategy and Operations will co-lead Nudge Unit operations including staffing allocation, personnel management, and business plan development for the overall portfolio of projects. This position requires a high degree of sophistication, resourcefulness, creativity and the ability to lead by influencing others at all levels across the organization. The Director of Strategy and Operations must have the ability to develop and cultivate stakeholder relationships, evaluate outcomes, manage project budgets, craft business cases, manage and develop staff, and refine and extend the Nudge Unit's toolkits to ensure that staff can advance projects efficiently and effectively towards implementation and impact. The ability to make key decisions, think creatively, and be disciplined in interpreting project/program outcomes to direct future strategy will allow success in this role.

Background. The Penn Medicine Nudge Unit is a joint venture between the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation (CHCI) and the University of Pennsylvania Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE). Founded in 2016, the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit is the world's first behavioral design team embedded within a health system. The Nudge Unit leverages insights from behavioral and implementation science to design, implement, evaluate, and disseminate scalable nudges to steer medical decision-making toward higher-value care, improved patient outcomes, and more equitable health care delivery. Consistent throughout the work of the Nudge Unit is a desire to make the right choice the easy choice.

Since 2016, the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit worked on more than 100 projects, most of which include testing interventions within health systems, including more than 25 randomized trials resulting in over 100 publications in leading medical journals such as NEJM, JAMA, Nature, and PNAS. The Nudge Unit currently supports a broad portfolio of projects to improve care within Penn Medicine as well as an extramurally funded program of research aimed at improving acute care and the prevention of overdoses and injuries. In its portfolio, the Nudge Unit commonly leverages electronic health records, automated text messaging, smartphone apps, and other digital interventions to change behavior.”

Job Description

Director Level C accountabilities:

• Oversee the design and execution of Nudge Unit health system request for proposal supported projects and coordinate Nudge Unit supported clinical teams towards executing project goals
• Lead the creation of a strategy and toolkits for stakeholder engagement, contextual research, intervention design, rapid experimentation, and implementation across all Nudge Unit projects
• Oversee personnel management for Nudge Unit staff and work with team members to help them grow and develop
• Oversee Nudge Unit budgeting and operations across its portfolio of health system and grant funded projects
• Oversee the planning and execution of Nudge Unit hosted events including the Annual Nudges in Health Care Symposium which draws an international audience of 200 clinicians, researchers, and operational stakeholders
• Hold Nudge Unit Office Hours to provide consultation to care teams and researchers seeking solutions to challenging problems
• Cultivate and manage internal health system stakeholder relationships with executive leadership, informatics partners, clinical and operational leaders to ensure project support and prioritization and remove obstacles as necessary
• Work with the Center for Health Care Innovation Communications Director to disseminate Nudge Unit communications and learnings via the Nudge Unit website, social media, and other communications channels
• Collaborate on health care innovation efforts with other leaders and staff at the Center for Health Care Innovation and associated groups at Penn Medicine

Director Level D will have these same accountabilities as Director Level C:

• Oversee the design and execution of Nudge Unit health system request for proposal supported projects and coordinate Nudge Unit supported clinical teams towards executing project goals
• Lead the creation of a strategy and toolkits for stakeholder engagement, contextual research, intervention design, rapid experimentation, and implementation across all Nudge Unit projects
• Oversee personnel management for Nudge Unit staff and work with team members to help them grow and develop
• Oversee Nudge Unit budgeting and operations across its portfolio of health system and grant funded projects
• Hold Nudge Unit Office Hours to provide consultation to care teams and researchers seeking solutions to challenging problems
• Cultivate and manage internal health system stakeholder relationships with executive leadership, informatics partners, clinical and operational leaders to ensure project support and prioritization and remove obstacles as necessary
• Work with the Center for Health Care Innovation Communications Director to disseminate Nudge Unit communications and learnings via the Nudge Unit website, social media, and other communications channels
• Collaborate on health care innovation efforts with other leaders and staff at the Center for Health Care Innovation and associated groups at Penn Medicine

Additional accountabilities for Director Level D role:

• Oversee the design and execution of Nudge Unit extamural grant funded digital health intervention projects using the Way to Health platform

• Oversee the establishment of a research core for the Nudge Unit Way to Drive app to enable a sustainable model for research collaborations using the Way to Health platform
• Engage high level external stakeholders including policy makers, health system, insurance, and industry executives to cultivate new partnerships to test and implement nudge interventions on a broad scale
• Oversee efforts to craft economic analyses and business cases supporting further investment beyond high impact pilots

This position requires a high degree of sophistication, resourcefulness, creativity and the ability to lead by influencing others at all levels across the organization. The Director of Strategy and Operations must have the ability to develop and cultivate stakeholder relationships, evaluate outcomes, manage project budgets, craft business cases, manage and develop staff, and refine and extend the Nudge Unit's toolkits to ensure that staff can advance projects efficiently and effectively towards implementation and impact. The ability to make key decisions, think creatively, and be disciplined in interpreting project/program outcomes to direct future strategy will allow success in this role.

Minimum Degree Requirements and Experience Required:

• Director C - Bachelor's degree and 7-10 years experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Director D - Master's degree and 5-7 years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Demonstrated ability to complete complex and thoughtful work
• Background in health care a plus, whether as a clinician (RN, PT, SW, etc) or in health care management or innovation
• Experience in application of behavioral science, implementation science, informatics, and/or design thinking a plus
• Additional experience required to qualify for Director Level D: experience with development and implementation of digital health interventions, high-level industry and health system stakeholder engagement, and experience in business analysis

This position is contingent upon funding.

Job Location - City, State
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Department / School
Perelman School of Medicine

Pay Range
$74,476.00 - $117,086.00
Salary offers are made based on the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, as well as internal and market factors and grade profile.

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Special Requirements
Background check required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.

University Benefits

• Health, Life, and Flexible Spending Accounts: Penn offers comprehensive medical, prescription, behavioral health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits to protect you and your family's health and welfare. You can also use flexible spending accounts to pay for eligible health care and dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars.
  
• Tuition: Take advantage of Penn's exceptional tuition benefits. You, your spouse, and your dependent children can get tuition assistance here at Penn. Your dependent children are also eligible for tuition assistance at other institutions.
  
• Retirement: Penn offers generous retirement plans to help you save for your future. Penn's Basic, Matching, and Supplemental retirement plans allow you to save for retirement on a pre-tax or Roth basis. Choose from a wide variety of investment options through TIAA and Vanguard.
  
• Time Away from Work: Penn provides you with a substantial amount of time away from work during the course of the year. This allows you to relax, take vacations, attend to personal affairs, recover from illness or injury, spend time with family—whatever your personal needs may be.
  
• Long-Term Care Insurance: In partnership with Genworth Financial, Penn offers faculty and staff (and your eligible family members) long-term care insurance to help you cover some of the costs of long-term care services received at home, in the community or in a nursing facility. If you apply when you're newly hired, you won't have to provide proof of good health or be subject to underwriting requirements. Eligible family members must always provide proof of good health and are subject to underwriting.
  
• Wellness and Work-life Resources: Penn is committed to supporting our faculty and staff as they balance the competing demands of work and personal life. That's why we offer a wide variety of programs and resources to help you care for your health, your family, and your work-life balance.
  
• Professional and Personal Development: Penn provides an array of resources to help you advance yourself personally and professionally.
  
• University Resources: As a member of the Penn community, you have access to a wide range of University resources as well as cultural and recreational activities. Take advantage of the University's libraries and athletic facilities, or visit our arboretum and art galleries. There's always something going on at Penn, whether it's a new exhibit at the Penn Museum, the latest music or theater presentation at the Annenberg Center, or the Penn Relays at Franklin Field to name just a few examples. As a member of the Penn community, you're right in the middle of the excitement—and you and your family can enjoy many of these activities for free.
  
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• Flexible Work Hours: Flexible work options offer creative approaches for completing work while promoting balance between work and personal commitments. These approaches involve use of non-traditional work hours, locations, and/or job structures.
  
• Penn Home Ownership Services: Penn offers a forgivable loan for eligible employees interested in buying a home or currently residing in West Philadelphia, which can be used for closing costs or home improvements.
  
• Adoption Assistance: Penn will reimburse eligible employees on qualified expenses in connection with the legal adoption of an eligible child, such as travel or court fees, for up to two adoptions in your household.
  

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