Senior Director, Health Promotions

American Lung Association • New York, NY

3d • $82,000 - $92,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The American Lung Association has an excellent opportunity for a Senior Director, Health Promotions. Working as a member of the Health Promotions department, you will join an outstanding group of professionals dedicated to our mission: to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through research, education, and advocacy.

The Senior Director, Health Promotions role will direct, implement, and evaluate health systems change programs, related to Addressing the Burden of Childhood Asthma in New York State grant including the implementation of evidence-based strategies to expand the quality and availability of guidelines-based asthma control services in New York. This is a grant-funded position serving the State of New York, focusing primarily on Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx. This a 100% grant funded position.

Requirements

• Master’s degree and/or clinical degree preferred. Nursing, Public Administration, Public Policy Public Health, Health Promotion, or related field, with a minimum of seven to ten years of management-level programing experience required.
• Experience in driving quality improvement efforts in clinical settings, including understanding electronic medical record systems, supporting interoperability amongst various data reporting platforms required.
• Demonstrated background in clinical quality improvement methodologies and using electronic health record data to collect and report on asthma or other chronic disease quality measures (HEDIS, QARR, encounter data).
• Strong working knowledge of clinical care delivery in pediatric settings and/or direct experience supporting the translation of national clinical guidelines into quality clinical care.
• Must be Asthma Educator Certified (AE-C) within one year of hire.
• Must have excellent project, budget, and staff management skills, as well as a thorough understanding of strategic development; previous experience managing teams to success across multiple geographic areas preferred.
• Demonstrated success in grant writing and grant management.
• Must be a self-starter with excellent communication skills, both written and oral. Superb organization skills and attention to detail.
• Strong ability to relate effectively and establish strong cooperative relationships with medical, technical, analytic and executive-level personnel.
• Demonstrated people skills to manage a group of staff. Ability to achieve high level of performance where there are multiple job assignments and tasks.
• Other duties as assigned within the job performance.
• Must have a valid Driver’s license and your own reliable transportation with the ability to travel within assigned area (primarily Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx) 60% of the time for meetings and conferences, as well as the flexibility to work irregular hours, including evenings and weekends with some overnights required. Additionally, there will be occasional travel to other areas of New York State, as well as potentially to other states on an incidental basis.
• Able to work with minimum direct supervision, make decisions, and take initiative.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Team and internet applications.
• Ability to lift and carry 25 lbs.
• Consistent with its mission, the American Lung Association maintains a smoke-free workplace; all employees must abstain from tobacco use in any form, including vaping.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation, evaluation, and monitoring of evidence-based, quality improvement programs for the Addressing the Burden of Childhood Asthma in New York State grant. This includes establishing and managing work plan projects that address the needs of the high-risk population incorporating the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention EXHALE Technical Package.
• Direct health systems change deliverables, and sure they are met or exceeded; engage with funder to ensure fiscal and management adherence.
• Present program outcomes and disseminate surveillance and evaluation findings at statewide and national meetings as needed.
• Lead health promotions team to ensure the dissemination and implementation of Project BREATHE New York to expand access to and quality of guidelines-based asthma care coordinated across settings; ensure onboarding requirements are met, adequate training is provided, and individual staff goals are met.
• Facilitate clinical advisor meetings, guide creation of evidence based, provider education materials, facilitate provider trainings across NYS.
• Assign work and keep on top of assignments to staff. Supervising staff to meet project deliverables, establish priorities, and evaluate performance.
• Serve on regional and national workgroups and committees as requested; represent the Association as a member of community, civic and/or health coalitions and organizations related to the Association’s mission.
• Responsible for suggesting new project ideas, concepts and direction.
• Project manager in the development and administration of project budgets, monitoring expenses, and correcting significant variances to ensure conformance with approved budgets.
• Responsible for maintaining existing funding levels by completing and exceeding project deliverables. Responsible for seeking and suggesting new funding sources.
• Collaborate with outside partnerships, program director, and subordinate staff in order to complete job objectives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Paid Leave - 10 vacation days in the first year (15 days thereafter), 2 personal days and 15 sick days per year, as well as 12 company-paid holidays per year. We also offer Paid Parental Leave for eligible employees.
• Insurance - Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in our medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as voluntary plans for critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, short-term disability and supplemental life/AD&D insurance. Employees will be enrolled in company-paid life/AD&D and long-term disability Insurance coverage.
• Retirement Plan - Eligible employees can participate in our 401(k) Defined Contribution Retirement Plan, which offers matching employer contributions (up to 4%) and year-end discretionary non-elective contributions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director