Director, Organizational Strategy, Culture & Operations

The Rippel Foundation has an opening on its staff for a Director, Organizational Strategy, Culture & Operations.

The new staff member will join The Rippel Foundation at an exciting moment of transformation and growth, as the Foundation embarks on new strategic objectives that will influence the future of health and well-being in communities throughout the nation. We encourage you to apply even if you have experience in some but not all the listed job responsibilities. The Rippel Foundation has a firm commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion and encourages applications from those who will help us become a more inclusive organization.

Who you are:

• Organized and efficient. You can keep track of many different things at once. Managing through complexity comes naturally for you; you thrive in a busy environment and are calm under pressure, e.g. managing a dozen different priorities and tracking progress across a diverse team while responding to tons of emails
• Ability to Operationalize Strategy. You see the big picture and have a unique ability to bring strategy to life, turning the intangible into clear, actionable projects and tactical project plans.
• Problem Solver. You plan for multiple contingencies. When confronted with a challenge, you’re resourceful and find a way to a resolution.
• Results-focused. You set clear timelines and drive projects to completion. You move with a sense of urgency and know how to get things done.
• Collaborative people-person. You love working with people, are able to quickly build 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 with a respective 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 wellbeing. You want to come to work and feel inspired every day. You want to change the world.
• Mentor: Team members will seek you out for advice on how to move things forward.

Organization

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, they refocused their 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. They 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 movement for well-being and equity. 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 thereby enabling them to better assure the vital conditions and urgent services that all people need to thrive exist in communities across the country.

As an operating foundation with an $85M portfolio and funding from a diverse pool of supporters, Rippel is a strategic think tank; a value-driven, field-based learning/consulting organization; and a boundary-spanning philanthropy. Rippel’s theory of change has been endorsed by some of the country’s most sophisticated philanthropies and respected leaders including Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the US Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Well Being in the Nation, and Blue Shield of California Foundation.

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.

Rippel was one of the early pioneers championing the holistic definition of health and well-being and the need for systems change to address the social and structural determinants of health and health equity. Since its founding, Rippel has played a pivotal role at the forefront of innovation and thought leadership in the sector.

Building on its investment over the last decade in ReThink Health, Rippel’s major initiative, Rippel is now poised for even greater impact. The organization’s 2025 vision opens a window of opportunity to focus efforts in key sectors, advance critical stewardship practices and