American Heart Association · 3 days ago
Vice President of Community Impact
West Palm Beach, FL
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
5+ years expThe American Heart Association is a leading organization in cardiovascular health, and they are seeking a Vice President of Community Impact to lead community impact strategies in West Palm Beach. This role involves overseeing health strategies, managing a team, and collaborating with community partners to eliminate health disparities and achieve strategic goals.
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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
Qualification
Required
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
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
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
Preferred
Experience with collective impact campaigns preferred
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Disability
Life insurance
Robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution
Employee assistance program
Employee wellness program
Telemedicine
Medical consultation
Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees
12 paid holidays off each year
Tuition Assistance
Company
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary health organization.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$4.62MKey Investors
Stupski FoundationAmeriCorps Public AlliesCity Furniture
2025-08-14Grant· $0.1M
2024-07-09Grant· $2.7M
2024-06-06Grant· $0.69M
Leadership Team
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