Senior Program Officer, Health

What We Do

With residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families.

Strategies We Pursue

• Equip talent in underinvested communities with the skills and credentials to compete successfully for quality income and wealth opportunities.
• Invest in businesses, housing and other community infrastructure to catalyze economic, health, safety and educational mobility for individuals and communities.
• Strengthen existing alliances while building new collaborations to increase our impact on the progress of people and places.
• Develop leadership and the capacity of partners to advance our work together.
• Drive local, regional, and national policy and system changes that foster broadly shared prosperity and well-being.

Since 1979, LISC and its affiliates have invested approximately $29.7 billion in businesses, affordable housing, health, educational mobility, community and recreational facilities, public safety, employment, and other projects that help to revitalize and stabilize underinvested communities. Headquartered in New York City, LISC’s reach spans the country from East coast to West coast in 38 markets with offices extending from Buffalo to San Francisco and in 2,400 rural counties across 49 states and Puerto Rico. Visit us at www.lisc.org

Responsibilities

LISC is seeking a Senior Program Officer to work as part of a dynamic team that is focused on building upon LISC’s historical success and leadership in health equity while elevating the program to a new scale and scope. The Senior Program Officer will play a key role in managing grant programs, stewarding relationships with internal and external partners, and contributing to the evolution of LISC’s investments to advance health equity.

Responsibilities include:

• Help lead the ongoing development and refining of the Health team’s strategy, which prioritizes cross-sector partnerships between the community development, healthcare, and public health sectors, and which champions successful program models that address the social determinants of health.
• Manage major grant programs for the Health team, with a primary focus on initiatives that expand access to healthy food, transportation, and other neighborhood and social resources fundamental to attaining the highest level of health for all. Activities include leading program design and implementation, serving as project manager, engaging with community-based partners to negotiate grant agreements and deliver technical assistance, identifying and executing process improvements as needed, managing spending against budgets, ensuring grant compliance, and drafting reports and other communications.
• Work with the Health Program Director to manage health care partnerships to ensure successful field implementation, stewardship of key relationships, communication of successes and ongoing documentation and dissemination of lessons. Includes serving as project manager and coordinator across LISC units involved in various aspects of implementation of both grant programs and investments (loans to LISC from health care entities that we reinvest in community development projects) focused on economic development, affordable housing or other social determinants of health.
• Serve as a translator or bridge between the community development, healthcare, and public health sectors, helping to uncover opportunities for partnership that bring value to the communities LISC serves such as grant resources, debt capital with favorable terms, more accessible clinical services or other benefits.
• Thoughtfully and systematically engage local and rural LISC colleagues to enhance the Health team’s understanding of community health priorities and provision of responsive and proactive resources, connections and technical support.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration with LISC staff involved in implementation of health equity program strategies, including but not limited to colleagues in the following business units: Community Research and Impact, Strategy and Innovation, Market Excellence, Lending, and other National Programs teams.
• Provide technical assistance to LISC teams and community-based partners on ways to advance health equity through community development and forge partnerships with health care and public health leaders.
• Lead the development and dissemination of resources (i.e., how-to guide guides, case studies, briefs, articles, and other materials) by drawing on content expertise of Health team, local LISC offices, partners, and national best practices.
• Work with the Health Program Director to cultivate new funding prospects, including writing co