Community Impact Director

Overview

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.

 

We are currently hiring a Community Impact Director in our Greater Phoenix market based in Tempe. This role advances the mission of the American Heart Association by fostering relationships with community leaders, volunteers, and businesses to advance cardiovascular health and promote heart-healthy policies. This role supports initiatives that drive policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes to improve community health outcomes. Manages outreach efforts, leads volunteer-driven initiatives, and ensures the Association’s impact is effectively communicated and measured within the community.

 

In this hybrid role, the Community Impact Director will work from the Tempe office at least 1-2 times/week and travel as needed for external meetings and events.

 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

• Develops and nurtures relationships with businesses, healthcare providers, community organizations, and government agencies to promote heart health. Collaborates with volunteers and key stakeholders to identify and implement strategies on heart disease and stroke prevention within the market.

• Drives heart-health-focused PSE changes that improve access to healthy food, tobacco-free environments, and healthcare resources. Works with community partners to implement programs that support blood pressure management, nutrition security, tobacco control, physical activity, CPR community readiness, and other key priorities.

• Recruits, trains, and manages volunteers and strategic community alliances (faith-based institutions, federally qualified health centers, grassroots community organizations, etc.) in support of our efforts to improve health, engage in collective impact initiatives, and create a sustainable culture of health throughout the market. Engages volunteers to focus on priority communities and collective impact goals.

• Implements and tracks performance metrics to demonstrate the effectiveness of Association’s community impact programs. Evaluates program success, identifies areas for improvement, and provides recommendations to enhance outreach and engagement strategies.

• Acts as subject matter expert in American Heart Association initiatives and programs for community engagement in health risk factors.

• Coordinates community health education initiatives and public awareness campaigns related to heart disease and stroke prevention. Communicates the Association’s goals and mission with stakeholders through strategic outreach and engagement.

• Collaborates on sponsorship or funding initiatives by sharing program expertise and participating in revenue-related activities as needed.

• Participates in an array of community initiatives and represents the organization at community gatherings, events, fairs or forums.

Qualifications

 

• 3 years of relevant experience with community/public health issues and/or managing community/public health promotion or related educational programs or other related experience.
• University/College degree or equivalent experience.
• Proven ability to recruit, mobilize and manage volunteers, including C-suite level executives.
• Effective relationship management, with the ability to gain trust and influence without authority.
• Self-starter who works well in a team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive toward results.
• Proven ability to apply marketing insights to develop appropriate strategies.
• Ability to do daily local travel; requires access to reliable transportation at all times.  
• 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