Senior Director Community Impact

Ascension•Saint Louis, MO

3d•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Director Community Impact develops an enterprise social care strategy that embeds community-based support into routine clinical workflows, helping patients receive seamless whole-person care across settings. The role expands standardized social needs screening, connects patients with dignified and culturally responsive resources, and scales closed-loop referrals with community partners to ensure needs such as food, housing, and transportation are resolved. The position launches targeted health interventions for vulnerable populations to reduce avoidable hospital admissions and improve long-term outcomes. It partners with clinical, technology, and actuarial leaders to identify high-opportunity populations, reduce total care costs, and secure sustainable funding through philanthropic and value-based payer arrangements. The role also establishes measurement frameworks, performance metrics, and interactive data dashboards to demonstrate the clinical, operational, and community-level return on investment (ROI) and social return on investment (SROI) of social care interventions.

Requirements

High school diploma equivalency with 5 years of applicable cumulative job-specific experience, including 2 years in leadership or management; or an associate's or bachelor's degree with 3 years of applicable cumulative job-specific experience, including 2 years in leadership or management.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree or above.
Demonstrated experience designing and executing enterprise social determinants of health or population health initiatives within a health system or health plan.
Proven track record aligning social care interventions with value-based care contracts, risk models, and payer partnerships.

Responsibilities

Develop an enterprise social care strategy that embeds community-based support into routine clinical workflows.
Expand standardized social needs screening across the health system and connect individuals with dignified, culturally responsive resources.
Scale a closed-loop referral network with community partners to verify that patient needs such as food, housing, and transportation are resolved.
Launch targeted health interventions for vulnerable populations to reduce avoidable hospital admissions and improve long-term health outcomes.
Partner with clinical, technology, and actuarial leaders to identify high-opportunity patient populations, lower total care costs, and secure sustainable funding through philanthropic and value-based payer arrangements.
Establish measurement frameworks, performance metrics, and interactive data dashboards to demonstrate ROI and SROI and track clinical, operational, and community-level impacts.