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Deputy Executive Director for Patient-Centered Research Programs

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

POSITION SUMMARY

• Funding of Patient-Centered CER - supporting research that addresses questions important to patients, caregivers and other healthcare decision makers, generating meaningful evidence that enables better-informed health and healthcare decisions.
• Engagement in Research - actively involving patients and other health decision makers as partners across the continuum of PCORI's work, from research topic selection to disseminating and implementing results, ensuring the research findings are useful, relevant and trustworthy for those PCORI serves across the nation.
• Dissemination and Implementation - making the results of PCORI-funded studies easily accessible and usable by those who need them to make better-informed decisions about health and health care.
• Research Infrastructure - funding initiatives like PCORnet, a national research resource that enhances the capacity to conduct patient-centered CER more efficiently on a national scale, and learning from the healthcare experiences of millions of patients nationwide to improve the accuracy, efficiency and relevance of CER.

• Enhance and drive the overarching programmatic strategy for PCRP, ensuring coherence, complementarity, and synergy - in partnership with PCRP Chief Officers - across all PCRP divisions: Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (CER), Engagement, Dissemination & Implementation, Research Infrastructure & Innovation, and Program Operations.
• Lead the development and execution of long-range strategic plans for PCORI's research and research-related initiatives implemented through PCRP, tightly aligned with PCORI's mission, its purpose and priorities.
• Serve as a key contributor to PCORI-wide, enterprise-level strategy, culture, and decision-making.
• Identify emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges in patient-centered CER and across PCORI's funding portfolio to guide programmatic funding directions, infrastructure, and innovation.
• Partner with executive leadership to establish measurable objectives, evaluate program effectiveness, and ensure accountability.
• Collaborate with PCORI executive leadership to review and uphold PCORI policies and practices in support of PCORI's mission, staff, and culture.

• Cultivate and sustain high-value relationships with patients, caregivers, clinicians, payers, purchasers, health systems, academic institutions, policymakers, and other partners.
• Ensure stakeholder perspectives meaningfully inform research and related funding strategies and activities, funding decisions, and initiative design and evaluation.
• Lead and continue to enhance PCORI's engagement ecosystem, including advisory panels, public workshops, collaborative initiatives, and other engagement mechanisms.
• Partner with the Executive Director and other leaders to expand PCORI's reach and impact through strategic external engagement, dissemination and implementation of evidence from PCORI-funded research, and research resources, tools, and infrastructure.
• Steward engagement with the Board of Governors and relevant oversight committees related to programmatic activities, ensuring alignment with Board priorities and organizational strategy.
• Oversee the management of PCORI's Methodology Committee to ensure Committee goals and objectives are aligned with PCORI's priorities and are met.
• Serve as a visible ambassador and media spokesperson for the organization, elevating the visibility of the organization's work and understanding of PCORI's impact.

• Drive cross-departmental collaboration in partnership with executives across PCORI to ensure alignment, communication, and shared accountability across all PCRP divisions and PCORI enterprise functions.
• Ensure that PCRP divisions operate as an integrated ecosystem, with shared priorities, coordinated workflows, and seamless handoffs across the funding lifecycle.
• Partner with division leaders to cultivate their leadership capacity, cross-functional coordination, and high-performing teams.
• Lead, mentor, and empower a team of scientific, operational, and engagement professionals across multiple divisions.
• Ensure clear governance structures, consultative decision-making pathways, and communication that promote transparency, consistency, and organizational coherence.
• Oversee the harmonization of policies, processes, and standards across divisions for consistency where appropriate, quality, and operational excellence in program execution.
• Lead the alignment of division-leve...