Community Impact Director, Long Island & Westchester

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.

 

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Community Impact Director based on Long Island, NY based in our Melville NY office.  This full-time position will cover the Long Island market (Suffolk and Nassau counties), plus Westchester, NY area. The Community Impact Director will drive the execution of our health impact goals within the area by focusing in the areas of hypertension, cholesterol, nutrition, obesity, and physical activity with a focus on diverse communities.  To help you be successful you will have access to our award-winning learning platform the Heart U as well as various other training and support mechanisms locally and through our National Center.

 

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

• Engage in collective community impact efforts, both leading and supporting, in partnership with key volunteers, strategic alliances, institutions and corporations.
• Build and implement a cross-functional hypertension and cholesterol control strategy (high blood pressure management, cholesterol, nutrition access and healthy behavior initiatives, women's health and tobacco) in the market.
• Recruit, train and manage volunteers and strategic community alliances to achieve priority community and collective impact goals.
• Identify and assist in recruiting diverse volunteers to serve in leadership roles on market board of directors and event executive leadership teams.
• Work with internal staff partners to ensure population health strategies are integrated into development, communications and marketing, advocacy, and healthcare quality improvement activities.
• Collaborate with development staff partners and volunteers to identify, cultivate, and secure program funding, including sponsorship (cash and in-kind) for relevant campaigns.

Qualifications

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

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university. 
• Must have at least 3 years of experience working with community health issues, ability to interact across multiple acculturation levels and socio-economic groups. 
• Minimum of 3 years-experience in public health, education, marketing, public relations and/or community programs. 
• 3 years-experience in recruiting, mobilizing, managing, recognizing, and evaluating volunteers.  Experience in training others on volunteer management and monitoring progress.
• Exceptional oral and written communications skills.
• Demonstrated ability to simultaneously manage multiple, complex projects in varying stages of development under time constraints.
• Ability to travel at least 75% of the time within assigned coverage area, including some overnight travel.
• Must have at least intermediate knowledge and skill with Microsoft Office 2010 or higher used for word processing, email, presentations, and spreadsheets. Advanced knowledge and skill with these programs are preferred. These skills are subject to testing.
• Proven ability to conduct meetings with internal and external clients including interacting with external partners/sponsors representing the Association to the public, as necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large projects and events ensuring deadline compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to productively participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment working towards common goals with internal and external clients. Ability to influence team members without supervisory authority.Attracting talented, committed employees means offering a competitive benefits package, ongoing professional development and training, and a diverse and inclusive environment in which to work and grow.  And we do.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary minimum to the midpoint of the range is $77,300 to $103,100