Director of Community Health

Please Note: Open to all KP locations (CA, OR, WA,CO, GA, MD, VA, DC, and HI).

Job Summary

The Director of Community Health is responsible for the day-to-day management and execution of program areas within the Community and Social Health Programs portfolio, including Housing for Health, Economic Opportunity, and Food & Nutrition Security. The role will lead a team working on multiple initiatives within the portfolio at any time. This includes providing strategic direction on the portfolio; managing cross functional teams; ensuring the program areas remain on track and deliver value as outlined; representing the work as a subject matter expert in various internal and external audiences; managing internal and external partners; collaborating with evaluation and learning team to maximize program impact; identifying and working through any key barriers or challenges as they arise; and contributing to innovative and new ideas as the portfolio advances.

Essential Responsibilities

• Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.
• Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues. Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.
• Leads budgeting and financial planning by: directing community health operations, grantmaking, and budgets for organization-wide initiatives and overall portfolio ensuring that community health objectives are attained and within approved budget parameters; directing teams in market-wide portfolio assessment, budget analysis, and preparation of strategic, short-term and long-term community health spending plans; and aligning and monitoring community health funded programs with community health strategy and reviewing, developing, and advancing short-term and long-term business cases.
• Directs community health grantmaking and investments by: directing administration of and presenting at market charitable contributions committee meetings, training, and orienting committee members; advancing community health strategy design decisions across markets using multiple sources of data and lessons learned from previous and existing grantmaking and the field; driving key organizational objectives regarding charitable contributions programs/initiatives, including investments, in-kind, and business operational assets, and providing direction in consultation, technical assistance, and training initiatives; ensuring all program evaluations of current grantmaking are collectively contributing to market-specific goals and decision making as well as National Community Health goals and decision making, as appropriate; conducting strategic planning when developing grants, including scoping, inviting, analyzing, developing recommendations, presenting to committees; and directing teams in developing innovative charitable contribution strategies in alignment with other community health priorities.
• Directs communication strategies by: directing strategic communications between KP and management in community agencies regarding health programs; championing KPs position and long-term commitment to community health to internal and external audiences; overseeing the identification of corporate marketing, community relations outreach, and media opportunities to increase visibility of community health portfolio and programs; driving regular communication with internal and external stakeholders through regular reports and presentations as needed to communicate the impact of community and social health initiatives; directing the development of communications strategies to update programs, related stories, factsheets, press releases, and news articles; representing KP by directing teams and the strategic engagement approach and participating in collaboratives, working groups, advisory boards, committees, panels, conferences, and planning groups; and educating and influencing community leaders by advocating KPs value and commitment to communities served.
• Directs community health program management by: directing community health programs in KPs Community Health Program, including planning, design and operations of national and/or market internal and external initiatives that address community wellbeing based on business priorities, community health needs assessment, and/or community engagement; directing teams and/or collaboration with functional areas to develop alignment that all community health programs and activities meet the needs of KPs diverse communities; overseeing community health strategies and programs across the market, including philanthropy, in-kind, and/or community health improvement programs at the local and/or market level; directing multiple teams in planning, and organizing the market-wide delivery of short and long range community initiatives and focus areas, ensuring alignment with community health priorities and organizational goals; and driving the design, development, and implementation of programs that measurably improve community health and support the organizations tax-exempt status.
• Directs regulatory compliance by: directing compliant portfolios and ensuring accountability is built in the strategy and portfolio of work for charitable contributions/opera