Executive Director, Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW)

The Medical College of Wisconsin•Milwaukee, WI

14d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) seeks a strategic, visionary, and highly influential leader to serve as the Executive Director for the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW). This role also carries the title of Associate Provost, reflecting AHW’s integral impact across MCW’s academic, research, clinical, and community engagement missions. The Executive Director provides overarching leadership for AHW’s strategy, partnerships, programming, grants, and philanthropy, including stewardship of funds and oversight of grant expenditures, working closely with MCW’s President and CEO, institutional deans, and senior leaders to advance Wisconsin’s health priorities. AHW is one of Wisconsin’s largest and most influential health philanthropic assets, shaping high-impact investments that seed discovery, turn knowledge into action, and strengthen community health across the state. AHW drives statewide impact through investments in research, education, policy, public health, and community initiatives. The leader will also serve as the primary steward of the Endowment’s long-term vitality, ensuring accountability, transparency, and full compliance, and maintaining strong governance relationships. The Executive Director will be an influential driver for statewide innovation, advancing new partnerships with payors, health systems, government, philanthropy, and community organizations; leading strategic convenings; directing grantmaking and pilot initiatives; and generating forward-thinking solutions to Wisconsin’s most urgent health challenges. Through bold leadership and collaborative vision, this individual will ensure that AHW continues to deliver transformative statewide impact in a rapidly evolving healthcare and educational landscape.

Requirements

MD, PhD, DO, or equivalent terminal degree.
Eligible for MCW faculty appointment.
Experienced and visible leader in academic medicine, health philanthropy, implementation science, research, public health, or related fields.
Track record of strategic execution across health professions education, clinical practice, research, and community health.
Deep commitment to systems-level improvement and community partnerships.
Ability to effectively engage diverse stakeholders.
Ability to oversee complex philanthropic, research, educational, and public health portfolios.
Ability to navigate institutional, political, and regulatory environments with insight and tact.
Ethical leadership.
Consensus-building skills.
Impact-oriented communication skills.
Strategic focus combined with relational expertise.

Responsibilities

Provide overarching leadership for AHW’s strategy, partnerships, programming, grants, and philanthropy.
Oversee stewardship of funds and grant expenditures.
Advance Wisconsin’s health priorities in collaboration with MCW leadership.
Lead the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment.
Serve as the primary steward of the Endowment’s long-term vitality.
Ensure accountability, transparency, and full compliance of the Endowment.
Maintain strong governance relationships.
Drive statewide innovation.
Advance new partnerships with payors, health systems, government, philanthropy, and community organizations.
Lead strategic convenings.
Direct grantmaking and pilot initiatives.
Generate forward-thinking solutions to Wisconsin’s most urgent health challenges.
Ensure AHW continues to deliver transformative statewide impact.