BME Strategies ยท 1 day ago
Senior Advisor, Public Health Data and Program Strategy
BME Strategies is a Massachusetts-based consulting firm specializing in public health programs. The Senior Advisor will serve as an embedded advisor for a statewide public health data solutions initiative, ensuring that program priorities and operational realities are effectively translated into decisions and implementation approaches.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
Lead Business-Side Program Enablement: Serve as the central point of coordination for public health program staff, ensuring end-user business needs drive technical design and system functionality
Project Tracking & Documentation: Maintain and oversee business-side project plans, timelines, risks, decision logs, and progress updates for leadership and governance bodies
Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate closely with the IT Project Manager, vendor teams, developers, and data architects to ensure shared understanding and alignment across all project streams
Facilitate Project Governance: Support leadership briefings, participate in program leadership meetings, and ensure timely escalation of issues or decisions
Project Management & Delivery Oversight: Provide project management support for the business-side workstream, including scope definition, work planning, dependency management, milestone tracking, and coordination across internal teams, IT, and vendors to ensure timely and high-quality delivery
Budget Management & Financial Tracking: Monitor, track, and report on project budgets and expenditures, support forecasting and budget amendments, identify risks or variances, and coordinate with leadership to ensure financial accountability and alignment with project scope and priorities
Ensure Public Health Alignment: Assist with translating policy, programmatic, and regulatory considerations into system requirements that support core public health functions
Support Change Management: Assist with training, readiness activities, and communication to help public health staff adopt new processes and tools
Translation and cross-domain alignment: Proactively identify misalignments in understanding and expectations to prevent downstream rework
Public health operations and enablement: Analyze public health workflows and operational contexts to inform future-state processes enabled by integrated data systems, support organizational readiness by advising on adoption risks, communication needs, and sequencing considerations, and help shape training, rollout, and engagement approaches to support sustainable uptake of new tools and practices
Cross-Functional Coordination: Work closely with IT Project Manager, data architects, developers, and vendor teams to ensure alignment between business objectives and technical implementation
Public Health Workflow Analysis: Map current workflows, identify gaps, and design future-state processes optimized for digital, integrated data systems
Data Modernization Support: Partner with IT and data architects to ensure system design supports interoperability, standardized data structures, and modern public health data practices
Qualification
Required
Deep fluency in public health operations and data interoperability concepts
Data modernization
Product development
Agile literacy
Ability to facilitate complex conversations between technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience representing business needs of end-users
Preferred
Massachusetts/ New England preferred
Experience with Salesforce Public Sector Solutions or other CRM-based public health platforms is a significant plus
Company
BME Strategies
Founded in 2004, BME Strategies is a Massachusetts-based consulting firm specializing in consulting services to local, state, and national governments, healthcare institutions, professional associations, and non-profit organizations.