The American Heart Association (AHA) has an excellent opportunity for a Vice President of Health in our Metro Atlanta, GA office.
The Metro Atlanta Executive Director reports to the Executive Vice President, AHA-Southeast. Under the direction of the Atlanta Executive Director, with a dotted line to the AHA - Southeast SVP of Health Strategies, the Atlanta Vice President of Health Strategies is a player/coach responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of community health impact strategies across the market to achieve market and association strategic goals.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Practices the AHA’s leadership competencies and values in advancing the AHA/ASA’s mission and achievement of health impact and revenue goals. Under the direction of the Executive Director and collaborating with the VP of Development, provides vision and direction for Atlanta’s unified health and revenue efforts, oversees integrated planning processes for all functional areas within span of control, and actively involves, informs and integrates with internal partners across the metro market, affiliate and association.
- Recruits, leads and manages the Atlanta Health Strategies team, in partnership with functional Health Strategies vice presidents as applicable, including coaching staff to achieve organizational objectives.
- Implements strategy in area of content expertise (community impact, communications, etc.) as a player/coach, while also directly supervising Community Impact staff to achieve annual goals and objectives.
- Collaborates with community partners to lead the process of building or participating in collective impact campaigns for the market. This will include assessing the community health needs in the local market and developing, coordinating and/or implementing community wide strategies that focus on eliminating health disparities through proven-effective policies, systems, and environmental change approaches.
- Shares responsibility with the Executive Director for the recruitment and engagement of medical and non-medical volunteer leadership that represents and provides the diversity, community influence and personal affluence to champion the Atlanta Board of Director’s revenue and health impact objectives.
- Builds a network of volunteers and identifies appropriate external partners to drive meaningful engagement to advance AHA priorities and drive toward equitable health and wellbeing in the community.
- Develops, implements and evaluates an integrated approach to strategically aligned community health and development planning consistent with market, region and association-wide goals. Effectively involves and informs internal and external partners, mobilizing action around clearly defined, shared goals.
- Identifies opportunities for and promotes collaboration and synergies among and between health and revenue functions to most effectively execute AHA/ASA priority initiatives.
- Develops and manages/monitors market health strategies budgets within span of control and internal business operations in accordance with policies, fiscal standards and the approved operating budget.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university preferred. College coursework combined with related experience may be substituted for a degree.
Skills/Experience:
- Experience in the voluntary health field or other related fields, showing increasing responsibility in community organization, personnel supervision and management.
- Demonstrated strategic thinking skills in assessing the local market environment and available resources to successfully implement new and existing programs. Experience with collective impact campaigns strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit, organize, train, manage and utilize staff and volunteers effectively, including C-suite level executive volunteers and volunteer/board management experience.
- Self-motivated, highly effective organization and analytical skills, multitasking, communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated ability to productively participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment working toward common goals with internal and external clients. Ability to influence team members without supervisory authority.
- Strong communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage large projects and events ensuring deadline compliance.
- Community organization experience with non-profit organization as paid staff or volunteer leader.
- Ability and willingness to travel and work nights, weekends, etc., as required.
- Related experience may be substituted as follows: one and one half (1.5) years of experience equates to one (1) full time year of higher education.
- 7+ years’ experience in non-profit community/public health programs and initiatives.
- 5+ years of managerial experience preferably in a similar organization.
- Volunteer recruitment, management and retention experience preferred.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the Metro Atlanta area and surrounding area business, medical, and philanthropic communities strongly preferred or the ability to quickly become acclimated.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jun 27 2019
Active Until:
Jul 27 2019
Hiring Organization:
American Heart Association | American Stroke Association
industry:
Nonprofit