Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Director

Trinity Health•Livonia, MI

About The Position

Join Trinity Health as a dynamic leader driving enterprise strategy, operational excellence, and measurable impact across our national system. In this role, you will lead multi-site, grant-funded initiatives, build cross-sector partnerships, and advance innovative models that integrate social care and clinical care—improving access, outcomes, and equity for the communities we serve. You’ll collaborate with system, regional, and local leaders to standardize best practices, optimize performance, and deliver on key strategic priorities. This leader will oversee complex programs, manage significant budgets, and serve as a key liaison with national partners (including federal agencies), while mentoring teams and fostering a culture grounded in mission, integrity, and accountability. We’re seeking a strategic, collaborative leader with experience in program management, health equity, and working within complex, matrixed environments—someone passionate about driving meaningful change for underserved populations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Business Administration, Public Health, Nursing or related field
Advanced and Progressive Experience Developing and implementing multi-institutional programs, partnerships and supervising staff and contractors
Serving vulnerable or marginalized populations/communities
Program/Project management and problem solving, data analytics, quality improvement and financial optimization
Driving success effectively within a matrix leadership structure and shared leadership environment

Nice To Haves

Master’s or Doctoral degree in Social Work, Business Administration, Public Health, Nursing or related field preferred
Experience in Working With Populations including but not limited to the uninsured, communities of color, non-English speaking populations, those with access barriers including disability, age, poverty, geographic disparity, literacy and other factors is preferred.
Federal grant administration for multi-site projects and complex programs.

Responsibilities

Providing advice, guidance, and leadership to RHM and Region leaders in developing strategies and in the achievement of performance goals.
Enable Collaboration across and within System Services area, RHM and Regions to ensure consistency and integration of strategy and operations.
Actively guides, trains, mentors and monitors colleagues while contributing to the development and execution of RHM, Regional, Service Area and System Office based strategic plans.
Providing advice, guidance, and leadership to System Office, Service Area, and RHM.
Leading standardization/system-ness and optimization of policy, process, methodology, establishing a national community of practice.
Oversee Vendor/Contract Labor Management including centralizing strategy and optimizing spend.
Collaborates in system-wide strategy development and deployment of functional area priorities and initiatives.
Responsible for supporting regional efforts to comply with functional area priorities.
Accountable for the selection, evaluation and overall success of the functional leadership teams.
Organization-wide focal point for establishing functional strategies and governance over financials and staffing.
Accountable for communication between System Services functional area, Service Area, Regional, and RHM leaders.
Responsible for measuring and reporting KPIs/metrics and value delivery.
Providing advice, guidance and leadership for the colleague life cycle.
Maintains a working knowledge of applicable federal, state and local laws / regulations, Trinity Health Integrity and Compliance Program, and Code of Conduct, as well as other policies, procedures and guidelines in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behavior and safe practices.
Enables enterprise strategy to address internal or external business and regulatory issues; provides functional expertise and ensures fulfillment of performance and service standards.
Identifies, defines and solves complex problems that impact the management and direction of the business; Collaborates with Service Area, Regions and Health Ministries to ensure consistency and integration of strategy and operations.
Provides decision support, operations and / or optimization leadership focus.
Has responsibility for making decisions and managing risk that impact day-to-day regional, service area, enterprise or health ministry functional operations, with potential for a short- to mid-term impact on the enterprise as a whole.
Oversees a direct staff that includes leaders with direct reports or oversees large / complex programs without direct reports.
Convenes and maintains a multi-sector team of Trinity Health system office, local Regional Health Ministries (RHMs) and external partners to a) establish a network of in-person, distance learning and virtual CDC-recognized program delivery organizations and standardize procedures for participant engagement and support; b) develop and test a variety of models for NDPP and other social care program insurance coverage; and c) share learnings among all stakeholders.
Employs the principles of health equity to focus collaborative efforts on engagement and social needs support for populations experiencing disparities in health care access and health outcomes.
Supervises CDC grant-funded system staff and directs contractors/national partners either directly or matrixed with other Trinity Health departmental leaders.
Develops and manages budget of approximately $2.5 million per year, including funds distribution to RHMs and external partners.
Collaborates with Finance, RHMs, partners and system team to ensure all required financial documentation and reporting are completed accurately and on time.
Serves as the primary Trinity Health representative to the CDC Project Officer, maintaining routine communication, participating in scheduled meetings and submitting documentation and reporting accurately and on time.
Ensures that NDPP delivery, growth and reimbursement and all grant-related activities are well aligned and integrated with Trinity Health’s Social Care structure and strategy.
Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State and local laws/regulations; the Trinity Health Integrity and Compliance Program and Code of Conduct; as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behavior.