Associate Director, Innovative Projects

The Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative is a cross-sector health innovation hub at the University of Pennsylvania that develops, tests, and scales equity-centered solutions to improve health outcomes for LGBTQ+ communities. Operating at the intersection of academia, community, industry, and philanthropy, Eidos advances initiatives that address behavioral, social, and structural determinants of health through human-centered design, implementation science, and translational research.

The Associate Director of Innovative Projects serves as a strategic leader responsible for advancing a portfolio of innovation initiatives from concept development through pilot testing, evaluation, and scale. This role leads multi-year project strategy, establishes measurable impact benchmarks, and guides interdisciplinary teams to translate evidence into scalable programs, tools, and partnership models. The Associate Director of Innovative Projects applies design-thinking and rapid experimentation methods to assess feasibility, refine solutions, and ensure operational, regulatory, and quality alignment across initiatives.

In addition to driving project execution, the Associate Director of Innovative Projects contributes to long-term sustainability by advancing funding diversification strategies, supporting grant and partnership development, and identifying pathways for institutional adoption or external scale. The role requires a high degree of strategic judgment, cross-sector relationship cultivation and collaboration, and the ability to navigate ambiguity in early-stage innovation while maintaining alignment with Eidos’ mission and growth objectives.

This position is contingent upon the continued availability of funding.