Director, Social Impact

Job Description Summary

We’re a team of dedicated and smart people united by a drive to achieve a higher purpose together. You will be responsible for leading the execution of the Novartis Foundation Americas social impact portfolio, inclusive of Novartis Foundation (NF) and Novartis US Foundation (NUSF) initiatives, in North, Central, and South America. You will oversee data-driven, multi-year strategic partnerships, including the Beacon of Hope and Cardio4Cities. Managing the day-to-day program execution, partner selection and coordination, ensures initiatives are delivering measurable progress and social impact, and supports design of future strategic initiatives.

 

Job Description

Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if one of the following Novartis office locations is accessible for you: East Hanover, Cambridge, New York City, or Washington DC. (Hybrid 3x/week).

Key Responsibilities: 

• Program management: Manages day-to-day execution of NF/NUSF strategic initiatives across the Americas from implementation to evaluation, including project/partner management, ensuring operational excellence, proactive solutions-oriented management, and delivery against agreed outcomes in compliance with relevant regulations and guidelines.

• Expand Novartis Americas portfolio: Supports design and leads execution of US philanthropy strategy by engaging partners within the communities, academics and private sector to maximize impact and sustainability. Identify trends and opportunities for maximum impact and provide counsel and expertise to support the development and implementation of expanded Novartis Americas social impact portfolio.

• Health system and industry knowledge: Leverages a deep understanding of healthcare industry, innovation, health systems, population health and data science, to identify trends that can guide the social impact innovations the Novartis Foundations pioneer.

• Impact generation: Serves as program director on critical initiatives in relation to data driven population health, from initial assessment to development, deployment and continuous improvement. This involves planning and overseeing data analytics from those initiatives, integrating them in decision making with local authorities and health system managers, to codesign and continuously refine the intervention roadmaps with local leaders and in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

• Cross-disciplinary collaboration: Works closely with Novartis teams and external partners to maximize the social impact portfolio of Novartis Foundations. Work closely across a matrixed organization, including NF, NUSF, Impact & Performance to coordinate data collection and synthesis of evidence to inform scaling, pivoting, and management of programs.

• External engagement: Demonstrates outstanding stakeholder engagement, relationship building and partnership nurturing skills, to identify and build strategic partnerships with co-founders and other strategic partners and align them behind the social impact agenda of the NFs to establish, manage and grow multi-year alliances. Leverage those to further increase the Foundation Americas social impact and shape Novartis Foundations thought leadership in social impact enabled by data, technology and AI.

• Communications: Leads exemplary communication for different types of audiences and drives content development of key events convened or sponsored by the NFs, in close cooperation with NFs teams and Novartis Social Impact external engagement team. Leads design and production of partner-directed communication material in close alignment with communications team. Represent Novartis Foundation Americas initiatives both internally and externally and lead exemplar communications with diverse audiences. Prepare strategic content including memos, presentations, reports, and updates for senior leadership.

Essential Criteria:

• Degree equivalent in public health, life sciences or relevant.

• Extensive industry experience in corporate philanthropy or social impact, knowledge of relevant regulations and guidelines related to corporate philanthropy.

• Demonstrated agile and solutions-oriented ability to work in fast paced environments, with multiple stakeholders, managing complex initiatives, and under significant level of uncertainty.

• Strong strategic mindset and experience processing new, complex information to not only maximize existing programs, but support the creation of new strategic initiatives.

• Proven track record successfully managing multiple social impact progr