Overview

As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives. Here at the American Heart Association, you matter and so does your career.

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Vice President, Community Impact in our Boston market. This position is home-based with in-person community engagement responsibilities. The candidate must reside in the greater Boston area. The VP, Community Impact provides strategic direction, leadership, and management for the Boston Community Impact staff. Management includes identifying and driving toward goals, performance standards, mentoring and coaching staff; interviewing, hiring and training staff; evaluating staff performance and empowering team members to lead and champion the health needs of the market.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

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Responsibilities

• Ensures execution of comprehensive and strategic community impact and health strategies focuses, including policy, systems, and environment changes in clinical and community settings.
• Recruits and leads volunteer and strategic alliances/partnerships to support market activities. Community engagement includes coordinating efforts with health systems, faith-based communities, coalitions, health department, and other community partners.
• Builds a network of significant volunteer partnerships to advance the Association’s mission, including local board of directors recruitment and engagement.
• In collaboration with Senior Executive Director and VP of Development, lead the market’s strategy to achieving goals by advancing significant mission and revenue opportunities.
• Drives collaboration with development staff to build meaningful opportunities for volunteers, sponsors and donors to engage with our mission.
• Provides oversight for achieving Policy, System, and Environment (PSE) goals in the markets identified by the region goals, ensuring integration with staff and volunteers.
• Coordinates and lead consultation to drive work in clinical settings, including driving Clinical PSEs, and providing direction and strategy in driving outpatient goals around improving outcomes to control Blood Pressure, Hypertension, Nutrition, Tobacco/Vaping, Cholesterol, and Diabetes.
• Provides oversight for corporate health goals, ensuring integration with staff and volunteers to recruit worksites to adopt a culture of health.
• Provides oversight to staff and volunteers to develop a local market year-round plan for engaging the community in cardiovascular and stroke initiatives.
• Guide the learning and development of Community Impact staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in public health or related field from accredited university required. Master of Public Health preferred.
• Five (5)+ years of experience in public health, and/or community programs including working with community health issues, volunteer recruitment and management.
• Three (3) to Five (5) years of managerial experience preferably with staff in a similar organization.
• Strong knowledge of the Boston business, medical, and philanthropic communities, or the ability to quickly become acclimated.
• Candidate must be willing and able to travel within the region daily.
• Must have working knowledge and skills with Microsoft Office products.

Compensation & Benefits

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package. Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

• Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success by merit increases and incentive programs, based on the type of position.
• Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
• Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program. HeartU is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.
• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees. This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

The American Heart Association’s 2024 Goal: Every person deserves the opportunity for a full, healthy life. As champions for health equity, by 2024, the American Heart Association will advance cardiovascular health for all, including identifying and removing barriers to health care access and quality.

At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities. We're committed to ensuring our workforce, workplace culture and mission have a shared impact across a diverse set of backgrounds.

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Location US-MA-Boston

Posted Date 4 days ago (3/14/2024 8:53 PM)

Requisition ID 2024-12732

Job Category Health Strategies

Additional Locations US-MA-Wellesley

Position Type Full Time

Location: MA-Wellesley