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Senior Director, Community Impact

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The American Heart Association has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Community Impact Director working in our San Diego Division!

The Senior Community Impact Director drives the planning, implementation and evaluation of strategies and plans to achieve health impact goals by focusing in the areas of hypertension, cholesterol, nutrition, obesity, and physical activity. This position leads the integration of population health strategies in collaboration with internal and external partners.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Develop an overall community action plan that includes engagement and positioning strategies, driving to organizational goals around healthy behavior, which includes blood pressure management, worksite wellness and other health impact initiatives.      
  • Effectively build a network of meaningful volunteer and partner relationships to create a sustainable culture of health within our vulnerable community. Proactively identify, recruit, orient, and lead volunteers consisting of senior-level executives and community leaders within the market to drive the overall community action plan.      
  • Drive direct health impact via targeted strategic community alliances (i.e., faith-based institutions, community centers etc.) and corporate relationships (i.e., Top 25 Companies, sponsors, etc.)
  • Successfully build and implement a cross-functional hypertension and cholesterol control strategy (high blood pressure management, cholesterol and healthy behavior initiatives) in the market with strong integration of Health Strategies and Development teams.
  • Supervises the Health Strategies Coordinator, employs effective management techniques to appropriately develop and engage staff to achieve organizational objectives.
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree in Public Health or related field
Skills/Experience: 
  • Minimum 3 years’ related, progressive experience
  • Experience building effective teams of staff and volunteers
  • Strategic planning and plan execution experience
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to influence desired outcomes across stakeholders
  • Ability to think strategically, analyze market data, identify key trends-both internal and external.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Public Health or related field
  • Prior AHA experience

Organization Info

American Heart Association | American Stroke Association

Overview
Headquarters: 
Dallas, TX, United States
Annual Budget : 
More than $500M
Founded: 
1949
About Us
Mission: 

The American Heart Association's mission is to build healthier lives free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, America's No. 1 and No. 5 killers.

Founded in 1924, our organization now includes more than 30 million volunteers and supporters. We fund innovative research, fight for stronger public health policies, and provide critical tools and information to save and improve lives.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jun 11 2019
Active Until: 
Jul 11 2019
Hiring Organization: 
American Heart Association | American Stroke Association
industry: 
Nonprofit