American Heart Association · 1 day ago
National Director, Program Development, Health Science
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$120K/yr - $140K/yr
3+ years expThe American Heart Association is seeking a National Director, Program Development, Health Science to support mission-aligned project development and execution. This role involves leading teams in implementing funded initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, and managing program consultants and coordinators.
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Responsibilities
Lead implementation of funded initiatives by overseeing project planning, initiative and stakeholder recruitment, execution, monitoring and evaluation
Manage team of program consultants, program managers and project coordinators to ensure coordination, performance, and achievement of project milestones and deliverables
Contribute to proposal development by collaborating with the senior director and grant writing manager on program design, logic models, timelines, staffing plans, and budget development
Monitor Budgets and Contracts by providing strategic guidance into project expenditures and tracking budget spend
Apply Quality Improvement Frameworks to drive measurable improvements across participating sites and projects within portfolio
Facilitate Communication between internal departments, external partners, and funders through regular updates, strategic meetings, and dissemination of results
Ensure Timely Reporting of outcomes, challenges, and key learnings
Provide Strategic Guidance to Dissemination efforts, including working closely with marketing, to share key insights through presentations, abstract submissions, toolkits, webinars, podcasts
Ensure that project staff have tools and resources to successfully implement the assigned program. Provide training and coaching on assigned projects in portfolio including best practices and successful implementation strategies
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Business Nonprofit Management or related field
3 years of experience in healthcare program or project management
3 years of leadership experience
Ability to lead teams and manage complex, multi-site initiatives
Experience with quality improvement frameworks and outcome reporting
Strong communication and relationship management skills
Experience in healthcare or in a public health-related organization with clinical, quality improvement, program development or systems improvement responsibilities
Experience contributing to grant proposals and program design
Experience presenting to funders and national audiences
Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
Excellent oral and written communication
Ability to function independently with minimal supervision
Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate with all levels of American Heart Association staff, volunteers and the public
Comprehensive Microsoft Office suite skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
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
American Heart Association has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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2025 (5)
2024 (1)
2023 (4)
2022 (3)
2021 (2)
2020 (4)
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
Jennifer Hall
Chief, Data Science and Analytics
Lynne Braggs
National, Sr. Director Digital Content Production, Creative (Marketing)
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