Project Manager, Wayfinding + Signage

The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursueour missionat MSK and around the globe.

Exciting Opportunity at MSK: Project Manager- Wayfinding and Signage

As one of the world's premier cancer centers, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is committed to the progressive control and cure of cancer through programs of patient care, research and education. Design+Construction (D+C) is committed to excellence in planning, designing and constructing facilities that support the Center's mission. To accomplish this, D+C must successfully implement capital projects with close collaboration between physicians, scientists and staff by establishing a standard of quality in construction management by assembling teams of professionals.

The position, Project Manager, Wayfinding+Signage, is critically important, as corporate identity has become a strategic asset in MSK's brand equity, differentiation and patient experience.Wayfinding is key in supporting successful execution of the organization's goals to improve patient experience and develop unique branded experiences.Development of strategies to create and implement innovative graphics and effectively-designed wayfinding systems enhance these goals.

The healthcare environment, a large and multifaceted system, requires a focused approach to identify public and clinical destinations supported by pictograms, graphic icons, printed/digital maps and more. This information must be strategically deployed and disseminated to provide and reinforce directional information.

Role Overview:

• Manages signage and wayfinding scope across Planning, Design + Construction projects and MSK enterprise-wide and operational initiatives. Responsible for design, coordination, documentation, standards development and compliance, vendor oversight, and implementation of signage.
• Partners with Planning, Design, EHS, Engineering, Construction, and other teams to ensure signage is well integrated, compliant, and aligned with organizational standards.
• Support D+C management teams and end users [on construction/renovation projects, as well as day-to-day organizational signage needs], providing wayfinding+signage design, development, procurement and installation.
• Designs, [if required] develops and implements signage
• Identifies key overall and project-specific organizational branding strategies, philosophies & goals with which the wayfinding+signage masterplan will be interfaced and developed.
• Provides recommendations to Executive Director,P,D+C, for the selection and assignment of signage consultants / vendors

Key Qualifications:

• 2-4 years experience with firm designing signage and wayfinding; preferably, experience in healthcare environment
• Strong Graphic Design skills

Core Skills:

• A highly organized, self-motivated, forward-thinking, solution-driven individual who strives for excellence and delivers high quality outcomes.

Additional Information:

• Location: Hybrid with at least three days mandatory on-premise at 885 Third Avenue, in NYC. Would travel to all MSK sites.
• Schedule: Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm
• Reporting to the Executive Director, Design & Construction

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