Program Analyst, Partnerships
About The Position
The Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative (ADDI) is a coalition of leading academic, advocacy, government, industry, and philanthropy organizations working to accelerate progress in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) research. In 2020, ADDI launched a non-profit organization to implement its mission, focusing on open data and global collaboration. ADDI aims to remove silos by unlocking ADRD datasets, enabling access to interoperable data sharing platforms, empowering researchers, and fostering collaboration to speed up breakthroughs. This role is focused on building, managing, and operationalizing partnerships to expand data sharing, improve interoperability with the AD Workbench platform, and onboard new tools, datasets, and capabilities. It is a highly execution-oriented role requiring strong project management, partner coordination, and relationship management skills. The Program Analyst will work closely with internal teams and external partners to ensure partnerships are effectively structured, implemented, and tracked against clear milestones and outcomes.
Requirements
- Master’s degree with at least 3 years’ relevant experience in partnership management, program management, consulting, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience in managing partnerships or coalitions, including tracking deliverables and coordinating across organizations
- Experience organizing and driving complex projects while effectively balancing multiple priorities on tight timelines
- A strong project manager: You can independently manage multiple complex workstreams, keep stakeholders aligned, demonstrate attention to detail, proactively follow up with stakeholders, and ensure deliverables are met on time
- Execution-focused: You are highly organized and detail-oriented, with a bias toward action and follow-through
- Experienced in partnership management: You understand how to build and maintain relationships while driving toward concrete outputs and accountability
- Comfortable with ambiguity: You can bring structure to evolving processes and operate effectively in a fast-moving environment
- A clear communicator: You can synthesize information and communicate status, risks, and next steps to diverse audiences
- Skilled at working across stakeholders: You can coordinate effectively across technical, academic, and operational partners
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting or managing grant agreements, contracts, or data-sharing agreements strongly preferred
- Familiarity with data platforms, data sharing initiatives, or interoperability efforts is highly preferred
Responsibilities
- Support the identification, evaluation, and onboarding of new partners aligned with AD Data Initiative priorities (e.g., data contributors, platform integrators, tool developers)
- Contribute to coalition-building efforts by coordinating across a diverse set of stakeholders including academic institutions, industry partners, and non-profits
- Design and implement a partner engagement and onboarding strategy, including development of supporting tools, processes, and materials to enable consistent and scalable partner engagement
- Serve as a day-to-day point of coordination for select partnerships, ensuring clear communication, follow-up, and progress against goals
- Track partnership deliverables related to data sharing, interoperability, and tool/platform integration
- Develop dashboards and trackers and maintain them to monitor partnership status, risks, timelines, and outcomes – including Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM systems
- Support the development, execution, and tracking of partnership agreements, including grants, contracts, and data-sharing agreements and liaise with internal and external legal stakeholders
- Coordinate with technical and product teams to support onboarding of datasets, tools, and platform features
- Track progress of integrations and ensure partners meet technical and operational requirements
- Help identify and resolve blockers associated with data sharing goals
- Manage multiple partnership workstreams simultaneously, ensuring timelines and deliverables are met and risks/dependencies on related workstreams are surfaced and addressed
- Develop and maintain dashboards, trackers, and reporting materials to provide visibility into partnership performance
- Prepare concise updates for internal leadership on partnership pipeline, progress, and outcomes
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
