Position Title: Director, Chicago
Reports to: Director of Programs, PIH-US
Location: Chicago, IL with occasional domestic travel required (for bi-annual team retreats)
Position Type: Full time

About PIH-US

Partners In Health United States(PIH-US) is the U.S. arm of Partners In Health, a nonprofit, social justice organization. We envision a future in which health is a human right, not a privilege in the United States. We seek the transformation of health and social systems so that structures of oppression no longer determine the quality or length of a person’s life.

PIH-US accompanies visionary public health and community partners working to build strong, integrated, community-led health systems across the US. PIH-US currently supports local health departments, health providers, elected officials, and community leaders to define clear health and racial equity agendas, and provides technical advising and operational support to deliver on those commitments. Our current focus communities include: Montgomery, Alabama; Chicago, Illinois; Immokalee, Florida; Newark, New Jersey; New Bedford, Massachusetts; North Carolina; and Pima County, Arizona. We capture learnings from across this network to mobilize resources, advance policy change, and lay the groundwork for stronger community health systems nationally.

Position Overview

This is a leadership role responsible for developing and managing PIH's programs, accompaniment and technical advising work in Chicago and the surrounding areas. The Director will drive strategy, set organizational and programmatic goals for PIH-US's work in Chicago, and lead a hybrid team of 6-8 people. The Director will lead and expand upon PIH’s anchor partnerships in Chicagoland, including with community based organizations, city and state government, public health programs, and philanthropy. In addition, the Director will collaborate with PIH-US colleagues across the United States, to bring learnings and insights from Chicago to national advocacy and communications initiatives and take PIH-US cross-site learnings to Chicago; the Director will sit on PIH-US's senior leadership team.

Responsibilities:

Chicago strategy development and resource mobilization (40%)

• In close collaboration with the PIH-US Director of Programs and Executive Director, define an ambitious vision for PIH-US’s work within Chicago, lead ongoing strategy development, continually identifying new opportunities for PIH to add value and maximize impact in Chicagoland
  • Expand and strengthen the PIH Community Health Accelerator program: Expand and strengthen PIH-US's programmatic and advising offerings for partner organizations supporting Community Health Organizers (CHOs)
  • Identify new opportunities for increasing number of CHOs in Chicagoland, maintaining strong working relationships, and managing communication channels to ensure continuity and transparency across community organization and government stakeholders
• Maintain, and strengthen the Health Justice Learning Community, open to all, across sectors by building on collaborative relationships with city, state and community technical, advisory and programmatic partners to support ongoing and emerging health equity and community health needs
• Develop and sustain a resource mobilization plan to deepen and expand PIH’s work in Chicagoland
• Collaborate with PIH-US Director of Programs and Director of Partnerships to steward fundraising efforts for PIH-US's work in Chicago, including assessing funding opportunities, contributing to proposal writing and budget development, and building and stewarding relationships with regional and local funders

Chicago program and team management (40%)

• Manage and lead a team of 5-7 individuals with overall budget of up to $3M
• Provide strategic leadership, staff coaching, and administrative and managerial oversight in line with PIH workplace values
• Develop staffing strategy and continually assess recruiting priorities to meet Chicago team need
• Guide and support implementation of ongoing workstreams, including the Community Health Organizer Accelerator and the Learning Community
• Lead site project budget management, tracking Chicago-specific grants and spending, with support from PIH finance, grants and compliance teams
• Evaluate project performance using appropriate KPIs and project metrics, in collaboration with PIH-US monitoring & evaluation team

National PIH-US strategy and communications (20%)

• Serve as a member of the PIH-US leadership team, ensuring strategic and operational alignment with PIH-US learning, advocacy and communications priorities and programming
• Collaborate with PIH-US communications team to tell the story of our work in Chicago for multiple audiences
• Serve as spokesperson for PIH-US in both internal and external engagement, including collaborating with and providing external reporting to funders and other partners, and contributing learnings and insights within PIH-US and PIH networks
• Engage in national PIH-US advocacy and coalition-building efforts to advance the broader movement for health equity in the U.S.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred in public health, public administration of related field
• 10+ years of professional experience in public health, nonprofit management, health program implementation and/or consulting, including experience managing a team
• Proven track record within the public health and/or community health landscape and among key stakeholders in Chicago
• Strategically minded, able to think creatively around program objectives and the detailed steps necessary to achieve these goals
• Experience stewarding donor relationships, both on grant management and new resource mobilization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to concisely communicate complex ideas in a manner that builds buy-in among diverse stakeholders
• Ability to work independently and effectively in fast-paced environment and handle competing priorities simultaneously
• Exceptional diplomatic and interpersonal skills and ability to build strong professional relationships with diverse stakeholders
• Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills, qualitative and quantitative analytical capabilities
• Entrepreneurial spirit demonstrated through prior experience working in start-up like environments building new teams or programs and/or flexibility in the face of rapidly evolving scope of work and new challenges
• Sound judgment and ability to handle confidential information with discretion
• Demonstrated commitment to health equity and social justice

Organizational Profile

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. PIH focuses on those who would not otherwise have access to quality health care. PIH partners with the world’s leading academic institutions to create rigorous evidence that shapes more sound and all-inclusive global health policies. PIH also supports local governments’ efforts to build capacity and strengthen national health systems.

As of today, PIH runs programs in 11 countries (Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Navajo Nation, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, United States), where it provides direct care to millions of patients, through public facilities and community engagement.

Partners In Health (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.

Partners In Health participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.