Associate Director, Learning & Impact

The Rippel Foundation has an opening on its staff for an Associate Director, Learning & Impact.

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.

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 norms, and build the internal capacities to grow impact over time.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, LEARNING & IMPACT

Job Description

Classification: Full-time; Exempt; Benefits-eligible

Summary

The Learning & Impact (L&I) team leads the Rippel Foundation’s work to measure, evaluate, and understand efforts for stewarding equitable system change across the country. To this end, the L&I team develops the frameworks, metrics, and approaches to surface and synthesize the effects of Rippel’s endeavors and convey collective insights about what works, for whom, how, and under what contexts. The team leads research to clarify the state and nature of stewardship and the broader movement to thrive together. The L&I team also builds capacity of Rippel staff to advance our mission and goals through effective and ongoing organizational learning and staff development. The L&I team strives to pioneer catalytic practices for equitable evaluation and measurement of system change efforts.

Reporting to the Director of Learning & Impact, the Associate Director of Learning & Impact advances the goals of Rippel’s L&I team by scaling and overseeing our project evaluation efforts and playing a lead role in the development and implementation of an innovative enterprise-wide measurement and evaluation strategy. The Associate Director will also oversee multifaceted research endeavors resulting in reports characterizing stewardship and the state of the movement to thrive toge