Healthcare Director - Private Equity Stakeholder Project

Healthcare Director

Private Equity Stakeholder Project

PESP’s Healthcare team is seeking a Campaign/Research Director to lead the team on research projects and strategic campaigns that address the role of private equity in healthcare.

The Healthcare Director will lead the PESP healthcare team to develop research, campaign strategies, priorities, and action plans to advance greater healthcare-related accountability and transparency by private asset managers. The Healthcare Director and team will implement these strategies by identifying and partnering with stakeholder groups impacted by private equity investments, participating in healthcare-related coalition work, engaging policymakers, regulators, and institutional investors, and supporting multiple related campaigns. The position includes collaborating to build and analyze data sets related to private equity acquisitions across healthcare sectors.

About the Position:

Location: Remote 

Responsibilities:

• Lead PESP’s work on corporate accountability and healthcare, including research, planning and implementation of strategies focused on private asset manager investment practices in healthcare.

• Lead multiple staff focused on research and corporate accountability. Provide training and growth opportunities for team members to develop skills.

• Lead implementation of research projects, including managing various staff’s assigned contributions to research and analysis.
• Manage production of public-facing materials – guide research, writing of materials, provide edits and feedback, ensure coordination with design/communications staff, oversee proper legal and final approval
• Build strong relationships with partner organizations to support the work of communities impacted by private equity’s healthcare acquisitions.
• Engage with policymakers, regulators, and institutional investors around private equity impacts and sustainable investment policies and practices.
• Lead and implement strategies to build and manage data sets and conduct data analysis across multiple partner organizations.
• Write well-documented reports based on data analysis for various stakeholders including policymakers, regulators, institutional investors, grassroots organizations, and the media.
• Guide research and campaigns to appropriately interact with stakeholder audiences including policymakers, regulators, institutional investors, grassroots organizations, and the media.
• Assist Executive Director in developing and implementing organizational and campaign priorities
• Some travel required. The Private Equity Stakeholder Project is a nonprofit financial watchdog organization that researches and reports on private equity investments and their impacts on people and the planet, working with communities and other stakeholders to bring about change. 

Experience & Skills:

• Strong commitment to social, economic and health justice; experience working with diverse constituencies.
• At least ten years of strategic research and/or campaigning experience.
• Experience leading other staff and driving projects
• Experience in a comparable position, which includes campaign strategy development and implementation, partnership development, working with the media, political leaders and/or includes experience managing and analyzing large datasets.
• Strong communication and writing skills, including ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders such as policymakers, regulators, investors, media, unions, and community-based organizations.
• Experience with analyzing and modeling health impact data. 
• Experience with data management platforms like Airtable/SQL, data analysis tools like R or Python and data visualization tools.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
• Interpersonal skills, ability to collaborate with team

Women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Organizational Relationship: The position reports to