Senior Advisor, Project Management

Job Title: Senior Advisor, Project Management

Location: Remote, East Coast Preferred

Description

Founded in 2004, BME Strategies is a Massachusetts-based consulting firm specializing in the design, implementation, and evaluation of public health programs for local, regional, and state government partners. Our work supports evidence-based, community-driven solutions that strengthen public health systems and advance equity across the communities we serve. At BME, our clients are on the front lines of Public Health. Priorities may shift but our commitment to supporting our partners does not.

We take pride in having multi-year, multi-project engagements, often working closely as an extension of their staff. Our success comes from our shared values: a bias toward action; optimistically collaborative; willingness to navigate ambiguity; minimal ego - no job is too small or big; pursuing the equitable solution; always learning, and; committed to quality at every stage.

Position Overview

The Senior Advisor, Project Management supports the successful day-to-day execution of a complex project by creating structure, driving coordination, and ensuring alignment across team members and stakeholders. This role is responsible for managing and supporting core project operations, including documentation, stakeholder communication, and project tools. The ideal candidate brings strong organization, follow-through, and communication skills to keep work moving forward in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Project Overview

Metrik is a statewide initiative led by the Office of Local and Regional Health (ORLH) to modernize and standardize workflows, data collection, reporting, and performance management across Massachusetts’ local and regional public health system. The project supports alignment with state performance standards, improves data quality and interoperability, and strengthens the ability of local health departments to demonstrate capacity, outcomes, and compliance in a consistent, user-friendly Salesforce platform.

In this role, the candidate will work closely with Flourish & Thrive Labs as the third-party integrator on the project.

Key Responsibilities

• BME Org-Wide Responsibilities for Senior Advisors (Subject Matter Experts): Leads project design and attends to client relationships
• May serve as a technical expert and/or individual contributor on highly specialized workstreams
• Project & Technical Lead
• Dedicated subject matter expert; recognized within the firm as a resource in this area
• Mentorship Potential: recognized technical mentor; supports junior staff development through coaching and knowledge-sharing; may develop internal training materials or resources
• Business Development: manages projects to exemplary client satisfaction; surfaces business opportunities with existing clients to leadership; contributes technical expertise to proposals and RFP responses; participates in pitching as a subject matter expert
• Role expectations: 85% project work, 5% administrative work, and 10% business development work.
• Role-Specific Responsibilities: Manage Project Operations & Infrastructure: Maintain and continuously improve project tools and repositories (e.g., Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, SmartSheets) to ensure documentation is organized, accessible, and aligned with evolving team ways of working.
• Drive Meeting Effectiveness & Follow-Through: Coordinate and facilitate recurring team and project meetings; capture and synthesize key decisions, action items, and next steps, and track follow-through to ensure accountability and alignment across the team.
• Coordinate Day-to-Day Project Activities: Support scheduling and team coordination; maintain visibility into team capacity and project cadence to ensure work is organized and moving forward.
• Support Cross-Workstream Coordination: Track dependencies, risks, and action items across workstreams, proactively identifying gaps and helping escalate or resolve misalignment as needed.
• Interface with IT Project Management: Coordinate meetings, maintain project tracker updates, and provide regular status reports to ensure deliverables are met and serve as a liaison between the IT PMO and the Agile Release Train.

Requirements

• Experience, Qualification, & Skills
• Minimum 8 years experience required
• 4+ years in a consulting firm environment
• 5+ years client-facing experience, including 2+ in project leadership roles
• MPH or similar relevant graduate degree.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• And an alignment with BME’s shared values.
• Required: Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, track details, and maintain momentum across competing priorities.
• Proven track record of owning and managing large projects across teams.
• Ability to synthesize complex information, translating discussions and inputs into clear, concise summaries, action items, and next steps.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for different audiences and produce clear, actionable outputs.
• Experience working in ambiguous environments, with the ability to bring structure and clarity to evolving work; strong meeting facilitation skills are required.
• Strong attention to detail and follow-through, ensuring tasks, decisions, and deliverables are tracked and completed.
• Preferred: Demonstrated track record of collaboration with state public health agencies and IT teams to drive alignment and project execution.
• Holds a recognized project management certification, demonstrating proficiency in project planning, execution, and oversight.
• Software build experience.
• Understands language in the tech space and can translate it across stakeholders.
• Experience with the SAFe Agile framework for solution development.
• Scrum Master certification
• Work Environment
• This is a full-time position based in a home office environment within the U.S.
• Candidates located on the East Coast are preferred for this role.
• BME Strategies in a remote-first organization. This role may require occasional travel to client sites, conferences, or meetings as required; 10-15% of travel is anticipated for this role.
• BME's work is organized around contracts that have defined scopes and timelines. As contracts conclude, we make every effort to transition team members to new projects that align with their practice area or skill set. As a result, the responsibilities of an employee hired for a particular position may adapt based on project needs and assignments.