National SVP, Brain Health and Stroke
About The Position
The American Heart Association is seeking an executive leader to unify and advance its enterprise-wide Brain Health and Stroke portfolio. The portfolio brings together the Association’s established stroke leadership and expanding brain health work to support cognitive, mental, and motor health across the lifespan. This leader will establish strategy, partnerships, business models, and initiatives that accelerate science, strengthen systems of care, advance policy, and help people protect and optimize brain health. The role directs portfolio development across science, healthcare systems, quality improvement, advocacy, community impact, consumer and patient engagement, innovation, and strategic partnerships. It also integrates strategies across organizational priorities and positions the portfolio as a leading platform for translating heart-brain science into healthier lives. The position can be home-based.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- At least 10 years of relevant experience.
- At least 8 years of supervisory experience.
- Skills in business acumen, change management, effective communication, managing complexity, planning and organizing, and prioritization.
- Knowledge of process management, program management, project cost management, project lifecycle management, project planning, project risk management, quality management, resource management, scope management, stakeholder management, strategic planning, and systems thinking.
- Skills in cross-team integration, motivating others, organizational leadership, performance management, and fostering teamwork.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for the enterprise-wide Brain Health and Stroke portfolio in collaboration with scientific leadership.
- Align stroke, brain health, cognitive health, prevention, healthy aging, mental well-being, and related initiatives.
- Drive the portfolio’s long-term growth and impact.
- Translate emerging evidence into clinical practice, quality improvement, and public health implementation.
- Integrate brain health into cardiovascular care, healthcare quality programs, registries, and professional education.
- Identify opportunities for innovation and systems transformation; collaborate with AHA Ventures and identify other innovation assets to accelerate growth.
- Build strategic relationships with scientific organizations, healthcare institutions, funders, industry leaders, policymakers, and global brain-health stakeholders.
- Expand the Association’s influence and visibility in the brain health ecosystem and cultivate collaborative initiatives that increase impact and scale.
- Establish sustainable funding strategies and generate partnership, sponsorship, grant, and investment opportunities.
- Create scalable models that extend organizational reach and impact.
- Position the portfolio as a trusted leader at the intersection of heart and brain health; represent the Association in national and international discussions and elevate awareness among consumers, clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and partners.
- Advance portfolio growth, funding and partnerships, market influence, integration into Association initiatives, population-level brain health outcomes, and consumer, patient, and survivor awareness and engagement.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Retirement program with employer match and automatic contribution.
- Employee assistance program, employee wellness program, telemedicine, and medical consultation.
- Professional development resources, including Employee Resource Groups, a professional mentoring program, and Heart U.
- Paid time off of at least 16 days per year for new employees, increasing with seniority.
- 12 paid holidays per year, including several days off at the end of the year.
- Tuition assistance for education and career development related to current or potential organizational duties.
- Incentive plan eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
