Community Impact Director, Health Equity - American Heart Association

Overview

As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.

We are currently hiring a Community Impact Director, Health Equity in Philadelphia area. This position is a Fulltime/Grant funded position through 12/31/2025. This position is based in our Philadelphia office, covering the Southeastern Pennsylvania region (including Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery, and Bucks counties). The Director will drive the execution of health impact goals within the area by focusing on the areas of hypertension, nutrition security, and health equity.   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.

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Responsibilities

• Lead operations to establish systematic community-based blood pressure screening, education, and referral interventions. Ensure coverage and support of self-monitoring blood pressure. Introduce and encourage food security screening and referral in health centers and community organizations.
• Design and facilitate opportunities and events for community-based organizations and direct service providers to provide wellness tools and training to their constituents. Enable organizations to build health and wellness skills such as culinary skills, health literacy, health education, as well as focused opportunities to address health issues such as blood pressure self-management, nutrition education, physical activity, and stress management.
• Engage HRSA funded and other health centers in systems change work and participation in outpatient quality programs passionate about improving blood pressure management and addressing other barriers.

• Facilitate dialogue and listening sessions to better understand the community’s needs. Collaborate to create an action plan addressing racial and ethnic health disparities and driving health equity in the community. Implement assessment plans to evaluate the environment, find opportunities for action, and engage in sustainable, systemic changes in a community.

• Identify, recruit and facilitate local cross sector leaders to participate in an engagement council and provide a forum to inform ongoing work.

• Ensure local opportunities are aligned with the American Heart Association’s broader advocacy, quality, and mission related agenda at the state and region level. Activate support for public policy opportunities. 

Qualifications

Want to help get your resume to the top? Take a look at the experience we require:

• Must have at least 2 years of experience working with community health issues, ability to interact across multiple acculturation levels and socio-economic groups. 
• Minimum of 2 years-experience in public health, education, marketing, public relations and/or community programs. 
• 2 years-experience in recruiting, mobilizing, managing, recognizing, and evaluating volunteers.  Experience in training others on volunteer management and monitoring progress.
• Outstanding oral and written communications skills.
• Demonstrated ability to simultaneously prioritize multiple, complex projects in varying stages of development under time constraints.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills in assessing the local market environment and available resources to successfully implement new and existing programs.
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment working towards common goals with internal and external clients. Ability to influence team members without supervisory authority.
• Ability to travel daily within assigned coverage area.  
• Ability to lift and/or move large objects (such as boxes) with the expectation that heavier items would be broken down into smaller components or requesting additional assistance may be required before lifting and/or moving.
• Must have at least basic knowledge and skill/proficiency with Microsoft Office

Here are some of the preferred experience and skills we are seeking:

• Experience working with multicultural communities preferred.
• Knowledge of the social determinants of health (SDOH) as it relates to behavior modification through self-care activities and policy/system-wide changes.
• Understanding of local health systems, relationships with hospitals, health clinics, and Federally Qualified Health Centers preferred.
• Bachelor’s or some college plus experience preferred, along with a focus on public health, also preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package.  Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

• 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 by merit increases and incentive programs, 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.  HeartU 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.

The American Heart Association’s 2024 Goal: Every person deserves the opportunity for a full, healthy life. As champions for health equity, by 2024, the American Heart Association will advance cardiovascular health for all, including identifying and removing barriers to health care access and quality.

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