American Heart Association - Portland, ME

posted 5 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Portland, ME
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

About the position

The Community Impact Director at the American Heart Association will lead health impact initiatives across Northern New England, focusing on hypertension, cholesterol, nutrition, obesity, and physical activity, particularly within diverse communities. This role is pivotal in driving community engagement and collaboration with volunteers, strategic alliances, and institutions to achieve health goals and improve community health outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Engage in collective community impact efforts, both leading and supporting, in partnership with key volunteers, strategic alliances, institutions, and corporations.
  • Build and implement a cross-functional hypertension and cholesterol control strategy in the market.
  • Recruit, train, and lead volunteers and strategic community alliances to achieve priority community and collective impact goals.
  • Identify and assist in recruiting diverse volunteers to serve in leadership roles on market board of directors and event executive leadership teams.
  • Work with internal staff partners to ensure population health strategies are integrated into development, communications and marketing, advocacy, and healthcare quality improvement activities.
  • Collaborate with development staff partners and volunteers to identify, nurture, and secure program funding, including sponsorship for relevant campaigns.

Requirements

  • 3 years of proven experience with community/public health issues and/or running community/public health promotion or related educational programs.
  • At least 3 years of experience working with community health issues, with the ability to interact across multiple acculturation levels and socio-economic groups.
  • Proven track record to recruit, mobilize, and lead volunteers, including C-suite level executives.
  • Demonstrated critical thinking skills in assessing the local market environment and available resources to successfully implement new and existing programs.
  • Demonstrated ability to handle large projects and events ensuring deadline compliance.
  • Demonstrated ability to efficiently participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment working towards common goals with internal and external clients.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience working with multicultural communities.
  • Knowledge of the social determinants of health (SDOH) as it relates to behavior modification through self-care activities and policy/system-wide changes.
  • Understanding of local health systems, relationships with hospitals, health clinics, and Federally Qualified Health Centers preferred.
  • Bachelor's or some college plus experience preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary with regular market reviews.
  • Merit increases and incentive programs based on performance.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage.
  • Robust retirement program with employer match and automatic contributions.
  • Employee assistance program and wellness program.
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) starting at a minimum of 16 days per year, increasing with seniority.
  • 12 paid holidays off each year.
  • Tuition assistance for further education and career development.
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