Vice President of Community Impact

American Heart Association • West Palm Beach, FL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Since our founding in 1924, we've cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half, but there is still so much more to do. To overcome today’s biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress, we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement, be part of the progress, and help ensure a healthier future for all. You matter, and so does the impact you can make with us. The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Vice President of Community Impact in our West Palm Beach office. Under the direction of the Executive Director, with a dotted line to the Region SVP of Health Strategies, the Palm Beach County Vice President of Community Impact is responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of community impact strategies across the market to achieve market and association strategic goals. The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally. #TheAHALife is more than a company culture; it is our way of life. It embodies our commitment to work-life harmonization and is guided by our core values where our employees can thrive both personally and professionally. Discover why you will Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Valued at the American Heart Association by following us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, and at heart.jobs.

Requirements

• Experience in the voluntary health field or other related fields, showing increasing responsibility in community organization, personnel supervision and management.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking skills in assessing the local market environment and available resources to successfully implement new and existing programs. Experience with collective impact campaigns preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, organize, train, manage and utilize staff and volunteers effectively, including C-suite level executive volunteers and volunteer/board management experience.
• Self-motivated, highly effective organization and analytical skills, multi-tasking, communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to productively participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment working toward common goals with internal and external clients. Ability to influence team members without supervisory authority.
• Strong communication, presentation and relationship-building skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage large projects and events ensuring deadline compliance.
• Community organization experience with non-profit organizations as paid staff or volunteer leader.
• Ability and willingness to travel and work nights, weekends, etc., on occasion as required.
• Ability to do daily local travel within the market requires access to reliable transportation on an immediate basis.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; 5+ years of relative experience in community/public health, or related field.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills in assessing the market environment and available resources to successfully conduct new and existing programs. Experience with collective impact campaigns preferred.
• Proven ability to recruit, train, manage, and utilize staff and volunteers effectively, including C-suite level executive volunteers and volunteer/board management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large projects and events ensuring target compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment working towards common goals. Ability to influence team members without supervisory authority.
• Excellent relationship-building skills, verbal and non-verbal communication, active listening, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• Highly effective presentation and organizational skills, time management, responsibility, leadership, and motivation.
• Ability and willingness to occasionally travel outside the market and to work the occasional evening and weekend as needed.

Responsibilities

• As a member of the Palm Beach County management team and the affiliate’s health strategies leadership team, consistently models the organization’s leadership competencies and values in advancing the mission and achievement of health impact and revenue goals. In collaboration with the executive director and VP of development, provides vision and direction for the market’s unified health and revenue efforts, oversees integrated planning processes for all functional areas within span of control, and actively involves, informs and integrates with internal partners across the metro market, affiliate and association.
• Leads and manages the market’s Health Strategies team, in partnership with functional Health Strategies vice presidents as applicable, including coaching staff to achieve organizational objectives.
• As a player/coach, implements strategy in area of content expertise (community impact, communications, etc.), while also supervising Community Impact staff to achieve annual goals and objectives.
• In conjunction with community partners and focusing on eliminating health disparities, the VP of Community Impact will lead the process of building or participating in collective impact campaigns for the market. This will include assessing the community health needs in the local market and developing, coordinating and/or implementing community wide strategies that focus on eliminating health disparities through proven-effective policies, systems, and environmental change approaches.
• With the Executive Director, responsible for the recruitment and engagement of medical and non-medical volunteer leadership that represents and provides the diversity, community influence and personal affluence to champion the market’s board of director’s revenue and health impact objectives.
• Builds a network of volunteers and identifies appropriate external partners to drive meaningful engagement to advance the organization’s priorities and drive toward equitable health and well-being in the community.
• Develops, implements and evaluates an integrated approach to strategically aligned community health and development planning consistent with market, affiliate and association-wide goals. Effectively involves and informs internal and external partners, mobilizing action around clearly defined, shared goals.
• Identifies opportunities for and promotes collaboration and synergies among and between health and revenue functions to most effectively execute the organization’s priority initiatives.
• Develops and manages/monitors market health strategies budgets within span of control and internal business operations in accordance with policies, fiscal standards and the approved operating budget.

Benefits

• Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success through annual salary planning and incentive programs; eligibility for an incentive program is based on the type of position.
• Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
• Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program. Heart U is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.
• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees. This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees