Vice President of Community Impact

Since our founding in 1924 weve cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half but there is still so much more to do. To overcome todays biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement be part of the progress and help ensure a healthier future for all. You matter and so does the impact you can make with us.

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Vice President of Community Impact in our West Palm Beach office.

Under the direction of the Executive Director with a dotted line to the Region SVP of Health Strategies the Palm Beach County Vice President of Community Impact is responsible for the development implementation and evaluation of community impact strategies across the market to achieve market and association strategic goals.

This is an office-based position with a hybrid schedule.

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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• As a member of the Palm Beach County management team and the regions health strategies leadership team consistently models the organizations leadership competencies and values in advancing the mission and achievement of health impact and revenue goals.
• In collaboration with other market leadership provides vision and direction for unified health and revenue efforts.

• Leads and supervises the Health Strategies team including coaching staff to achieve organization objectives.

• As a player/coach implements strategy in the area of content expertise (community impact communications etc.) while also supervising Community Impact staff to achieve annual goals and objectives.

• Own the process of building or participating in collective impact campaigns. This will include assessing community health needs and developing coordinating and/or implementing community-wide strategies to eliminate health disparities through proven-effective policies systems and environmental change approaches.

• Recruitment and engagement of medical and non-medical volunteer leadership that represents and provides the variety community influence and personal affluence to champion the markets board of directors revenue and health impact objectives.

• Build a network of volunteers and identify appropriate external partners to drive meaningful engagement to advance priorities and drive toward accessible health and well-being in the community.

• Develop implement and evaluate a coordinated approach to strategically align community health and development planning consistent with market region and association-wide goals. Effectively involve and inform internal and external partners mobilizing action around clearly defined shared goals.

• Find opportunities for and promote collaboration and alignments among and between health and revenue functions to most successfully implement the organizations priority initiatives.

• Develop and monitor market health strategies budgets and internal business operations in accordance with policies fiscal standards and the approved operating budget.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent; 5 years of relevant experience in community/public health or related field.
• Critical thinking skills in assessing the market environment and available resources to successfully conduct new and existing programs. Experience with collective impact campaigns is preferred.

• Ability to recruit train lead and use staff and volunteers effectively including C-suite level executive volunteers and volunteer/board management experience is preferred.
• Ability to lead large projects and events ensuring target compliance.
• Ability to efficiently participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment working towards common goals. Ability to influence team members without supervisory authority.
• Excellent relationship-building skills verbal and non-verbal communication active listening problem-solving and decision-making.
• Highly effective presentation and organizational skills time management responsibility leadership and motivation.
• Ability to travel locally within the market; requires access to reliable transportation on an immediate basis. May include some outside of immediate market travel and occasional evenings and weekends as needed.

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. Thats why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments as needed.
  
  
• Performance and Recognition You are rewarded for achieving success through annual salary planning and incentive programs; eligibility for an incentive program is 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. Heart U is the Associations national online university with more than 100000 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 Associations 2028 Goal: Building on over 100 years of trusted leadership in cardiovascular and brain health by 2028 the Association will drive breakthroughs and implement proven solutions in science policy and care for healthier people and communities. The greatest discoveries in health must reach everyone where they are.

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.

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