Associate Managing Director, Healthy Communities

ABOUT THE FOUNDATION

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), located in Princeton, N.J., is a leading national philanthropy dedicated to taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime. To get there, we must work to dismantle structural racism and other barriers to health. Since 1972, we have focused on developing and promoting innovations in health and healthcare to improve the lives of millions. Through funding, convening, advocacy, and evidence-building, we work side-by-side with communities, practitioners, and institutions to achieve health equity faster and pave the way, together, to a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right.    

We take seriously our responsibilities, and we pledge to work in ways that reflect our Guiding Principles. These are rooted in equity and influence everything we do at RWJF. Equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI), and collaboration enable our staff’s wide range of experiences, passions, and perspectives to strengthen our ability to address our nation’s most pressing health issues and support a culture of belonging. Part of this work includes actively shaping an inclusive organization where all staff members thrive as we build and use our capabilities, voice, and power to advance health equity. RWJF offers a collaborative, collegial, and creative work environment. With a career at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, you will make a difference.  

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY 

 

Reporting to the managing director, Healthy Communities portfolio, the associate managing director will help to lead a team to develop and implement program strategy within the Healthy Communities portfolio. The portfolio seeks to create equitable community conditions that allow everyone to reach their best possible health and wellbeing. The portfolio works collaboratively to support the Foundation’s Generational Goal to achieve Healthy and Equitable Community Conditions. The team is focused on advancing health equity by influencing and changing the systems that perpetuate concentrated poverty, inequitable access to opportunity, and structural racism in the development, governance, and financing of communities. Its work is advancing three broad aims:  

• Increase visibility of structural racism’s impact on community conditions and health equity and elevate actionable data and solutions to dismantle barriers to opportunity. 

• Increase public and private investments in neighborhoods and places historically excluded from opportunity in the past, without displacement, and to center community priorities and wealth-building. 

• Identify and dismantle laws, policies, and government practices and procedures that perpetuate separation from opportunity and identifying and fine-tuning those that ensure protections from discrimination, exploitation, displacement, and other threats to health and wellbeing. 

 

The associate managing director, in collaboration with the managing director, serves as the management team of the portfolio and leads the management and operations of a matrixed team in the development, implementation, and evolution of systems change strategies and strategic grantmaking. The associate managing director will have demonstrated abilities in complex project management; staff mentoring and team-building; and the development, execution, and evolution of systems change strategies and strategic grantmaking relevant to addressing structural racism. The associate managing director will have a demonstrated acumen in working collaboratively with others both inside and outside the Foundation. 

As with staff at all levels of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, associate managing directors are expected to demonstrate a commitment to equity and to RWJF’s mission and Guiding Principles. 

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES  

Core responsibilities for the associate managing directors