Program Associate, Strategic Initiatives

The Rippel Foundation is seeking a Program Associate, Strategic Initiatives that will advance the goals of cultivating, managing, and sustaining Rippel’s strategic relationships. This role requires skills and experience in business development/strategic partnerships supportive processes (75%) and the administration and execution of complex projects (25%). This role has the potential to help shape and implement strategies to ensure Rippel can successfully raise funds to meet revenue goals, deepen strategic partnerships across the country, and effectively spread and increase uptake of Rippel’s tools and content.

The Program Associate, Strategic Initiatives is a remote position and reports to the Deputy Director, Strategic Initiatives.

Who you are:

• Organized and efficient. You can keep track of many different things at once. Managing through complexity and ambiguity comes naturally for you; you thrive in a busy environment and are calm under pressure.
• Collaborative and enthusiastic people-person. You love working with people, can quickly earn trust, are a team player and enjoy engaging with diverse perspectives.
• Clear communicator. You are direct and concise. You write clearly and adapt to strike the right tone for a specific audience.
• Trustworthy. You handle confidential and sensitive information with humility, professionalism, and discretion.
• Passionate. You want to use philanthropy as a force for good to improve health and well-being and advance equity.
• Patient, adaptable and proactive: When you see challenges, you seek to offer solutions and suggest alternatives for helping move through ambiguity. 

About the Rippel Foundation

The Rippel Foundation (Rippel) was established in 1953 to invest in initiatives addressing cancer, heart disease, the health of women and the elderly, and the maintenance of our nation’s hospitals. In 2007, we refocused our approach to these priorities, recognizing that a commitment to broader health system change is essential to achieve real, lasting impact. Today, Rippel is a nonprofit operating foundation with one primary strategic purpose: to be a catalyst for an equitable future for health and well-being. We believe that this goal is attainable if enough of us—individuals and organizations in all sectors—see ourselves and each other as interdependent stewards in a growing movement to thrive together. To accomplish this, Rippel focuses on creating equitable health and well-being for all in the US, beginning with those who are struggling and suffering. Rippel helps stewards adopt new mindsets and practices, enabling them to better assure the vital conditions and urgent services that all people need to thrive exist in communities across the country.

Working at the cutting edge of system transformation and building on its deep experience and expertise, Rippel focuses on those stewards best positioned to affect change in philanthropy, health systems and corporations. Rippel also partners with peers in a growing field to shift commitments, relationships, actions, and investments as well as create new norms – all grounded in what people need to thrive.

About the Strategic Initiatives Team

Our strategic initiatives team is at an exciting point in executing Rippel’s 10-year strategic roadmap. In 2024, this team emerged from the combination of the strategic partnership and program teams to streamline the strategic initiatives process from development and cultivation of relationships to implementation of strategic programming. The team is the largest at Rippel and facilitates, designs, disseminates, and coaches partners on Rippel’s core content, tools, and systemic models.

Program Associate, Strategic Initiatives

Job Description

Classification: Full-time; Exempt; Benefits-eligible

Summary

Reporting to the Deputy Director, Strategic Initiatives, the Program Associate will advance the goals of Rippel’s programs by taking responsibility for the design and execution of discrete tasks that assist with the processes of cultivating, managing, and sustaining relationships with external partners and delivering Rippel’s core content. This is to ensure Rippel can both successfully raise funds to meet revenue goals and deepen strategic partnerships across the country. The Program Associate will have solid familiarity with business development/strategic partnerships processes and be able to contribute content expertise and experience in the administration and management of complex projects.