Senior Vice President, Chief Community Impact and Philanthropy Officer

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Overview

Reporting to the President and CEO of Memorial Health, the Senior Vice President & Chief Community Impact and Philanthropy Officer provides strategic leadership for the health system’s three rural hospitals, ensuring high-quality, accessible, and sustainable care for the communities they serve. This executive is also responsible for shaping and advancing Memorial Health’s next chapter of philanthropic growth by leading enterprise-wide philanthropy, fostering strong relationships with donors and stakeholders to advance the organization’s mission and expand its impact.  In addition, the SVP & Chief Community Impact and Philanthropy Officer will oversee the enterprise-wide community strategy, partnering with senior executives, civic leaders, strategic partners and donors to advance Memorial Health’s mission.

This executive coaches and develops colleagues to their fullest potential, providing educational and developmental opportunities as needed. Equips colleagues to fully utilize the time, talent, technology, and resources available to them to ensure maximum effectiveness and efficiency.

The SVP, Chief Community Impact and Philanthropy Officer will embody the Memorial Health values of safety, integrity, quality, and stewardship to support the mission and vision.

Qualifications

Education:

• Master’s degree in public health, healthcare administration, business administration, or similar field of study required.

 

Licenses/Certifications:

• Fellow of American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) preferred.

 

Knowledge & Work Experience:

• Minimum of ten (10) years of senior-level leadership experience in rural hospitals.
• Minimum ten (10) years of overall philanthropy experience.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of overall community health improvement experience.
• Experience collaborating with executives, board members, community partners, healthcare associations, donors and volunteers on community health-related activities.

 

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strategic Mindset: Strong visionary skills with an ability to translate complex strategies into aggressive goals, targets and action plans that deliver results. Maintains ongoing feedback, measurement and assessment processes that determine progress to plan.
• Business Insight: Deep understanding of the market dynamics, competitive landscape, and healthcare trends. Demonstrates intellectual curiosity by seeking out new information and market awareness and uses that knowledge to advance Memorial Health’s philanthropic progress.
• Financial Acumen: Familiarity with financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting to evaluate strategic initiatives, understanding the financial indicators/levers to deliver earnings at or above budget, regardless of changes in the environment.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively inspire support of Memorial Health’s mission and philanthropic activities.
• Stakeholder & Community Engagement: Builds and nurtures strong relationships with board, enterprise leadership, Memorial Health colleagues, and key community partners; able to engage persuasively with internal and external contacts to garner support for Foundations.

Responsibilities

• Rural Hospital Leadership: In partnership with the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) CEOs and their respective boards, brings strategic and operational alignment to the rural hospitals, ensuring excellence in patient care, financial sustainability, workforce engagement.

Acts as a visionary and strategic leader, who ensures fulfillment of mission and progress towards vision, while able to establish credibility and confidence with hospital colleagues, physicians, advance practice providers, government officials, community leaders, board members, donors and other internal and external stakeholders of Memorial Health. 

Works in collaboration with these stakeholders by providing executive leadership and coordinating matters pertaining to patient care, quality improvement and experiences to create efficiencies, reduce costs and eliminate barriers while improving the health status of the communities served by the rural hospitals.

Builds and maintains cohesive leadership teams. Provide leadership, direction and support for direct reports and develops succession plans to ensure leadership continuity.

 

• Enterprise Philanthropy: Provides executive leadership for Memorial Health’s philanthropic efforts by developing and driving over