The American Heart Association (AHA) has an excellent opportunity for a Community Impact Director based in our Nashville office .
Areas of Responsibility:
- The Director will drive the execution of health impact goals within the metro Nashville area by focusing in the areas of hypertension, cholesterol, diabetes, nutrition, obesity, and physical activity. The market with have a focus on diverse communities.
- Build and implement a cross-functional hypertension, diabetes, and cholesterol control strategy with measurable outcomes (high blood pressure management, cholesterol, diabetes management, and healthy behavior initiatives) in the market.
- Work with healthcare providers to ensure best practices for treatment of patients through initiatives and programs including but not limited to: Target: BP™ and Check. Change. Control. CHOLESTEROL™.
- Consult with clinical staff for data entry, data reporting, compliance issues, and strategies for improved patient outcomes.
- Participate in market health assessments, organize and/or lead community collaborations, build and implement plans for policy, system or environment change driving toward opportunities for impact.
- Collaborate with development staff partners and volunteers to identify, cultivate and secure program funding, including sponsorship (cash and in-kind) for relevant campaigns.
- Work with internal staff partners to ensure population health strategies are integrated into development, communications and marketing, advocacy, and healthcare quality improvement activities.
- Recruit, train and manage volunteers and strategic community alliances to achieve priority community and collective impact goals.
- Engage in community impact efforts, both leading and supporting, in partnership with key volunteers, strategic alliances, institutions and corporations.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s or some college plus experience. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university preferred. College coursework combined with related experience may be substituted for a degree.
Skills/Experience:
- 2+ years’ experience working with community/public health issues and/or managing community/public health promotion or related educational programs. This experience may also count towards satisfying this position’s educational requirement.
- Understanding of the benefits associated with use of treatment algorithms and their impact on clinical inertia.
- Understanding of continuous quality improvement methodology. Experience leading a QI initiative in a clinical setting preferred.
- Familiarity with clinical work flows in the ambulatory setting.
- Experience caring for adult patients, specifically around how to engage patients in self-care activities and behavior modification.
- Experience working with multicultural communities preferred.
- Proven ability to recruit, mobilize and manage volunteers, including C-suite level executives.
- Related experience may be substituted as follows: 1 ½ years’ experience equates to 1 full-time year of higher education.
- Must have at least intermediate knowledge and skill with Microsoft Office 2010 or higher used for word processing, email, presentations, and spreadsheets. Advanced knowledge and skill with these programs is preferred. These skills are subject to testing.
- Ability and willingness to occasionally travel outside the market and to work evenings and weekends as needed.
- Ability to travel within the Nashville metro area and transport items to and from meetings and events.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jul 2 2018
Active Until:
Aug 2 2018
Hiring Organization:
American Heart Association | American Stroke Association
industry:
Nonprofit