CEO, Future of Cancer Care Today (FCCT)

EQL Tech

23d•$190,000 - $220,000

About The Position

Future of Cancer Care Today (FCCT), an initiative incubated by the Sijbrandij Foundation, is seeking a Chief Executive Officer to lead it into its next phase. FCCT helps cancer patients and families identify diagnostic and treatment options relevant to their cases, including options beyond standard of care, and find vetted suppliers and providers. Its PhD-led team creates playbooks, curates resources and provides non-clinical decision support; FCCT is not a medical provider and does not diagnose, prescribe or direct treatment. Its services are free to patients. This is a builder’s role focused on growing a proven, high-touch service so it can reach more families without compromising its rigor and compassion. The CEO will own FCCT’s strategy, team, standards and growth, and will report to the CEO of the Sijbrandij Foundation. In the first year, the CEO is expected to establish an agreed three-year strategy, staff open Patient Connections roles, document quality standards, increase the number of families reached and establish at least two substantive external partnerships.

Requirements

Advanced degree in a relevant scientific, medical or health discipline.
Ability to read, interrogate and summarize primary oncology literature and engage credibly with practicing oncologists and researchers.
Demonstrated team leadership and a track record of hiring well.
Experience building an organization or initiative from an early stage into something larger.
Sound judgment under ambiguity when stakes are high and evidence is incomplete.
Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to translate complex science into language a frightened family can act on.
Deep personal commitment to patients.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience in oncology, precision medicine, clinical research or patient navigation.
Familiarity with options beyond standard of care, including expanded access, Right to Try and clinical-trial pathways.
Experience operating within or alongside a philanthropic funder.
An existing network across oncology, research or patient advocacy.

Responsibilities

Set and own FCCT’s strategy, including defining what the initiative should and should not become over the next three years.
Lead and grow the team, including the Director of Patient Connections and the expanding Patient Navigation function.
Protect the quality of FCCT’s work by setting standards for case research, resource vetting and review of materials before they reach patients.
Maintain FCCT’s boundary outside the clinical relationship and determine where that boundary falls.
Scale FCCT’s playbooks, resource directory and self-serve tools so they can benefit families who do not interact directly with the team.
Build relationships with clinicians, researchers, diagnostics and therapeutics companies, patient advocacy organizations and peer foundations.
Partner with the Sijbrandij Foundation CEO on budget, impact, risk and need.
Close and support the open Patient Connections Manager and Associate roles.
Increase the number of patients and families reached and establish a way to measure whether FCCT changed their options.
Develop at least two substantive external partnerships that expand what FCCT can offer.