Senior Administrative Assistant, Mass General Brigham AI Center
Massgeneralbrigham
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- Salary
- $22 – $31
- Location
- 60 Fenwood Road Boston (Hale Building), United States of America
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Administration
- Seniority
- Senior
- Education
- High School
- Source
- Workday
Description
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
This is a rare chance to sit at the center of one of the most ambitious efforts in healthcare today: building a world-class institutional platform for artificial intelligence in medicine. The MGB AI Center brings together leading clinicians, scientists, engineers, and operational leaders across Mass General Brigham and Harvard to shape the future of biomedical research and patient care.We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Administrative Assistant to be the right hand to our Director and executive team. This is not a behind-the-scenes administrative job. It’s a high-visibility, high-trust operational role for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy, relationships, and flawless execution, and who wants their work to matter.
If you are the kind of person who anticipates the need before it’s spoken, brings calm to chaos, and takes genuine pride in making a complex organization run beautifully, we’d love to meet you.
You’ll be a trusted partner to leadership, protecting their time, sharpening their focus, and ensuring the Center operates at the highest level. Your work will touch nearly every part of the Center’s mission.
Essential Functions:
-Manage the Director’s time and calendar. Own and orchestrate a complex, fast-moving calendar spanning internal meetings, external partnerships, leadership sessions, board-style meetings, donor engagements, and high-stakes institutional commitments. You’ll prioritize effectively, resolve conflicts before they surface, and ensure leadership walks into every meeting fully prepared with briefings, agendas, and materials in hand.
-Understand and support the Center’s growth. Develop a deep understanding of the Center’s organizational architecture and operating model so you can support leadership with insight, not just logistics. You’ll play a meaningful role in faculty recruitment and hiring, coordinating candidate visits, interviews, and follow-through, and you’ll help drive staffing, onboarding, and organizational planning as the Center scales.
-Connect the Center to the broader institution. Serve as a key liaison between the Center and the wider Mass General Brigham hospital system, as well as Harvard and university operations, coordinating seamlessly across departments, administrative offices, and institutional functions.
-Make travel and external engagements effortless. Arrange domestic and international travel end to end, including flights, hotels, itineraries, conference logistics, and reimbursements. Manage invitations for lectures, panels, advisory boards, and government briefings, handling bios, headshots, talk titles, and every detail so leadership can focus on showing up at their best.
-Coordinate VIP visits and guest experiences. Plan and execute site visits for visitors, collaborators, donors, industry partners, and academic leaders. From agendas and access to catering, AV, and the details that make guests feel welcome, you’ll be the front-line ambassador who ensures every visit is seamless and professional.
-Keep the engine running. Provide operational backbone to the executive team, coordinating leadership meetings, retreats, and strategic planning sessions. Build the systems and workflows that let a rapidly growing Center operate with clarity and momentum.
-Build and steward key relationships. Manage relationships with external collaborators, industry and philanthropic partners, academic institutions, and government stakeholders. Draft polished correspondence and prepare leadership for high-stakes conversations with sharp briefing notes and timely follow-up.
-Protect what matters. Handle highly sensitive information with discretion, including strategic plans, personnel matters, financial details, research partnerships, and IP discussions, while ensuring full compliance with MGB policies on travel, procurement, confidentiality, and institutional approvals.
-Own special projects. Take the lead on center launches, events, executive briefings, donor materials, and strategic initiatives, carrying projects from first idea to flawless finish.
Qualifications
Required
- 5+ years supporting senior executives, faculty leaders, physicians, research leaders, or C-suite stakeholders
- High School Diploma required (Bachelor’s degree highly preferred)
Preferred
- Prior experience working within Mass General Brigham will be considered a strong plus
- Prior familiarity with AI workflows is considered a plus, though not required
- Experience in an academic medical center, hospital system, university, research institute, startup, or technology organization
- Familiarity with AI, healthcare, biomedical research, or academic medicine
- A track record coordinating VIP visits, advisory boards, conferences, or executive-level external engagements
- Comfort working alongside senior faculty, physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, or government stakeholders
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Exceptional organizational, calendar management, written communication, and interpersonal skills
- Outstanding judgement, discretion, and grace under pressure
- A talent for juggling competing priorities without dropping a detail
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Zoom/Teams, and travel and expense systems
Who You Are
You’re calm under pressure, deeply reliable, and remarkably polished. You see around corners, anticipating problems before they arise and solving them quietly. You move fast without sacrificing accuracy, navigate sensitive relationships with ease, and bring order to complexity. Above all, you understand that this role isn’t just administrative, it’s central to helping a mission-driven leadership team change what’s possible in medicine.
Why Join Us
At the MGB AI Center, your work will help shape the future of healthcare innovation. You’ll operate at the heart of a major AI and healthcare initiative, alongside some of the most accomplished minds in medicine and technology, with a front-row seat to work that genuinely improves lives.
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Working Conditions
- This role is 100% onsite at 60 Fernwood Road in Boston, MA, which requires flexibility to support occasional early morning, evening, or urgent scheduling needs
Remote Type
Work Location
Scheduled Weekly Hours
Employee Type
Work Shift
Pay Range
$22.22 - $31.71/Hourly
Grade
4
EEO Statement:
Mass General Brigham Competency Framework
At Mass General Brigham, our competency framework defines what effective leadership “looks like” by specifying which behaviors are most critical for successful performance at each job level. The framework is comprised of ten competencies (half People-Focused, half Performance-Focused) and are defined by observable and measurable skills and behaviors that contribute to workplace effectiveness and career success. These competencies are used to evaluate performance, make hiring decisions, identify development needs, mobilize employees across our system, and establish a strong talent pipeline.