Senior Advisor, Public Health Data and Program Strategy

BME Strategies

5h • $95,000 - $120,000

About The Position

The Senior Advisor will serve as an embedded advisor for a statewide public health data solutions initiative, operating as a counterpart to the technical program leadership. This role ensures that public health program priorities, operational realities, and policy considerations are clearly defined and effectively translated into decisions and implementation approaches.
The Senior Advisor works closely with client leadership, technical program managers, IT teams, and vendors to align definitions, surface assumptions, navigate challenges, and support informed decision-making across domains, and delivered through effective collaboration with IT, vendors, and implementation partners.
The ideal candidate brings deep fluency in public health operations and data interoperability concepts, data modernization, product development, and agile literacy, and the ability to facilitate complex conversations between technical and non-technical stakeholders while representing business needs of end-users. Experience with Salesforce Public Sector Solutions or other CRM-based public health platforms is a significant plus.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Information Systems, Public Administration, or related field.
• 7-12+ years of experience advising on large scale projects and programs at the intersection of public health practice and data initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience serving in an advisory, translational, or strategy-oriented role within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong understanding of public health operations and the realities of local and state public health practice; ability to translate complex public health program needs into technical requirements.
• Working fluency in modern data concepts (e.g., interoperability, data lakes, standardized data models) sufficient to engage in solution-oriented discussions.
• Proven ability to facilitate challenging conversations and align stakeholders with differing priorities, vocabularies, and incentives.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting or advising large public-sector data modernization initiatives
• Familiarity with public health data standards and systems (e.g., HL7, FHIR, ELR, case management, surveillance systems).
• Experience working with or alongside state and local public health agencies.
• Exposure to agile or hybrid delivery environments (formal certification not required).
• Experience with CRM-based public sector platforms (e.g., Salesforce Public Sector Solutions, Health Cloud) is a plus but not required.
• Holds a recognized project management certification, demonstrating proficiency in project planning, execution, and oversight.
• Certified program management professional (PgMP®, MSP®, or equivalent), with proven experience leading cross-functional programs.

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.

Benefits

• 6+ weeks total leave, including paid vacation, sick time, personal leave, and floating holidays
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health FSA and dependent care FSA
• 401(k) with employer match
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
• One-time technology stipend
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level