Speros Special Project Manager

Moffitt Cancer Center

10d•$85,010 - $129,584

About The Position

The Special Projects Director / Deputy Chief of Staff advances Speros’ most important priorities by leading complex, cross-functional projects and developing systems, processes, and operational frameworks that improve team performance. The role reports to the Director, Strategic Initiatives and works closely with the Speros President and broader leadership team. It provides direct support to the Director, Strategic Initiatives on specific projects and team-wide priorities, while progressively assuming ownership of an independent portfolio of projects. The position manages high-priority initiatives from problem definition through implementation, translating broad strategic objectives into workstreams, milestones, responsibilities, dependencies, and decision points. It coordinates stakeholders and partners, conducts research and analysis, prepares leadership materials, identifies risks, and helps emerging or under-resourced priorities move forward. The role also helps manage Speros’ portfolio of priorities and builds practical systems for planning, tracking, decision documentation, accountability, meetings, performance reporting, and institutional knowledge. It supports the Director, Strategic Initiatives as a thought and execution partner, maintains context across workstreams, helps triage issues, and takes increasing ownership as organizational context and trust grow. The position builds productive working relationships across Speros, Moffitt, and external partners, creating clarity and helping work move effectively across organizational boundaries.

Requirements

At least 5 years of relevant professional experience, with evidence of progressively greater responsibility and independent project ownership.
Experience leading cross-functional projects and influencing stakeholders without direct reporting authority while maintaining momentum and achieving successful outcomes.
Ability to work effectively with senior leaders and across organizational boundaries.
Ability to organize, prioritize, and execute complex projects with limited direction, including defining objectives, establishing work plans, assigning responsibilities, and driving results.
Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail; ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, commitments, and dependencies simultaneously.
Ability to work effectively in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments, analyze unfamiliar situations, and develop structured solutions.
Broad business acumen and ability to adapt to assignments involving analysis, stakeholder engagement, process improvement, project management, and executive-level communications.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including synthesizing complex information and developing materials for senior leaders, executives, and external stakeholders.
Sound judgment, critical thinking, and decision-making skills, including the ability to operate independently and escalate issues appropriately.
Strong process improvement and operational management skills, with the ability to develop practical solutions that enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
Ability to anticipate challenges, identify risks and opportunities, take initiative, and remain accountable for results and deliverables.
Ability to learn unfamiliar subject areas quickly and operate in a fast-moving environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience in strategic operations, chief of staff, or executive special projects roles.
Program leadership or program management experience in mission-driven, public-sector, nonprofit, or private-sector organizations.
Project management or PMO experience with substantial ownership and cross-functional responsibility.
Management consulting, implementation consulting, or internal strategy experience.
Healthcare, life sciences, or biotechnology strategy and operations experience.
Public policy, government, public administration, or economic development experience.
Real estate development, urban planning, infrastructure, or large-scale capital projects experience.
Public-private partnerships, grants, or federally funded initiatives experience.
Higher education, research institutions, or other complex mission-driven organization experience.
Startup, innovation organization, or rapidly evolving team experience where roles are broad and systems are still being built.

Responsibilities

Manage discrete, high-priority initiatives from initial problem definition through implementation.
Translate strategic objectives into workstreams, milestones, owners, dependencies, and decision points.
Develop project plans and drive execution across teams, aligning stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
Identify risks, resolve issues, and escalate decisions when appropriate.
Coordinate internal and external partners, consultants, and subject-matter experts around shared deliverables.
Conduct research and analysis to inform decisions, frame options, and develop leadership recommendations.
Step into emerging or under-resourced priorities and create structure to move them forward.
Build an independent portfolio of projects and take increasing responsibility for defining and leading initiatives.
Help manage Speros’ portfolio of priorities and provide visibility into work underway, risks, and needs for leadership attention.
Build practical systems for work planning, project tracking, decision documentation, follow-through, and accountability.
Strengthen meeting cadences so recurring forums lead to decisions and actions.
Support KPI definition, tracking, and recurring performance reporting.
Improve document management, shared resources, onboarding materials, slide libraries, and institutional knowledge.
Create lightweight, repeatable processes that improve consistency without unnecessary bureaucracy.
Identify opportunities to simplify team workflows, reduce friction, and make execution more reliable.
Serve as a thought and execution partner to the Director, Strategic Initiatives across strategic and organizational priorities.
Maintain context across major workstreams, anticipate needs, connect dependencies, and identify issues early.
Prepare executive briefings, decision memos, presentations, dashboards, and other leadership materials.
Participate in selected internal and external meetings and ensure decisions translate into action.
Triage incoming issues and determine what requires leadership attention versus independent resolution.
Take increasing ownership of workstreams as context, judgment, and organizational trust grow.
Build productive working relationships across Speros, Moffitt, and external partners.
Coordinate initiatives that cross organizational boundaries, functional teams, and subject areas.
Learn unfamiliar domains sufficiently to identify relevant questions, people, dependencies, and decisions.
Create clarity when ownership is distributed or evolving and help information move effectively between teams.