Who We Are

Healthier Generation is a leading children’s health non-profit that promotes whole child health equity so that every mind, every body, and every young person can be healthy and ready to succeed. We believe a dedicated, intensified movement that centers equity in health practices and policies wherever kids live, learn and play is required to achieve dramatic improvements in the health and life outcomes of Black, Indigenous, People of Color, as well as communities experiencing deep poverty.

Healthier Generation works nationally and locally with schools and school districts, youth-serving organizations, businesses, and communities – building their capacity to create healthier environments where young people can thrive. Our work, in total, has reached more than 31 million children and meaningfully improved environments to support the physical, social, and emotional health of the next generation—especially those from underserved communities. Our programs are evidenced-based and evidence-informed, supported by a robust digital/virtual/live training platform and action center, as well as direct-to-community services. Through Healthier Generation programs, products and services, more children nationwide are gaining the opportunity to build a healthy future.

Healthier Generation’s customized professional learning opportunities and technical assistance trainings are led by National Content Advisors who specialize in adult learning and whole child health equity. In addition to teaching best practices in staff wellness, resiliency, physical activity and healthy eating -- trainings and curriculum also address multiple, critical child and adolescent health issues, such as social-emotional health and learning, tobacco control, mental health, family health, child vaccine-promotion and nutrition security and in-classroom activity – all accelerating staff wellness and students’ health and learning.

What You Will Do

The Vice President, Programs & Strategy leads a bold programmatic vision for equitable, diverse, inclusive and just delivery of all program initiatives, ensuring that every mind, every body, every young person is healthy and ready to succeed. This individual works with internal and external VIP program stakeholders to advance Healthier Generation’s board-approved strategic framework and tactical approaches by further centering the voice and perspective of historically and systematically excluded populations in the organization’s daily work. This position is responsible for leading efforts to engage internal stakeholders and education agencies, districts/schools, community organizations and youth-serving institutions and other partners to inclusively create and sustain equitable, diverse, inclusive, just and healthy environments. The Vice President will create and leverage prioritized relationships, develop and grow organizational assets, and provide expertise to benefit organizational strategy, tactics, communications, and development efforts. This position will oversee national and regionally focused teams (around 20-25+ staff members) to execute the delivery of Healthier Generation’s comprehensive strategic framework.

The VP is a senior-level leader that develops and manages strategies and tactics to catalyze Healthier Generation’s mission and program growth goals. They leverage a blend of strategic, cross-functional, operational, analytical, and equity leadership, and are both visionary and detail-oriented.

The position is a foremost leader in the organization, creatively contributing to a community-centered, equity-centered program design and delivery model that advances Healthier Generation’s progressive growth and impact agenda in whole child health will collaborate closely with the Executive and Senior Leadership Teams and all staff to further advance Healthier Generation’s whole child health equity focus – ensuring timely completion of established JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion)/Health Equity goals, measurable impact and overall accountability.

Core Responsibilities

Program Execution and Operations, Leadership and Management

Lead the management of the proven school-based and community-based youth and education sector engagement strategy in a cross-functional manner.
Serve as a member of the organization’s senior leadership structure to drive organizational strategies and priorities (both programmatic and funding); partner effectively with leaders from across the organization.
Mentor, guide, develop, and supervise team of program leadership staff and/or assigned programmatic staff.
Identify, champion and train staff on best practices in program management and delivery, including the creation and use of processes and tools to drive efficiency, alignment, and effective planning and implementation.
Lead the creation of a strategic vision for how to grow the organization and tap into new opportunities by leveraging our program expertise.
Advise other Healthier Generation teams and partners about strategy and delivery of youth and education sector and partner initiatives and varied roles in service to Healthier Generation stakeholder.
Guide the strategy for the development of technology tools that enable strong initiative delivery, client engagement, and progress tracking.
Facilitate reporting and analysis of regular and ad hoc initiative updates and outcomes to colleagues, leadership and external parties.
Imagine and implement new quality improvement processes, and facilitate decision-making, collaboration, and problem solving with employees at all levels of the organization to accomplish shared goals.
Keep current and abreast of national, state, and local legislation, academic research, and other developments with impacts to child and family health, to inform approaches, opportunities, or directions.

Revenue Generation, Realization, and Financial Management

Play a leadership role in organization fundraising efforts through program creation, lead generation, proposal development, consultation on initiative vision/design, curating stakeholder success stories and results, and stewarding key partnerships and funder relationships.
With other leaders, contribute to the financial sustainability of the organization’s initiatives by co-conceptualizing and co-designing impactful and innovative ways to deliver strategies and approaches that attract and sustain national and regional funders.
Support budget planning processes for existing and new funding sources; contribute to long-range budgetary planning.
Envision and execute, in partnership with other leaders, regional strategies to foster relationships with key stakeholders and funders that drive Healthier Generation’s brand, reach, and impact.
Support and coordinate across the organization the development and implementation of approaches, including initiating and expanding prioritized relationships and partnerships with key national organizations and agencies.
Support the development and implementation of a fundraising infrastructure to achieve the organizational goal of creating a culture of philanthropy.
Represent Healthier Generation with donors and on external projects, meetings, and committees as directed.
Center JEDI and health equity in all aspects of the work
Other duties as assigned.

Who You Are

You should have a genuine interest in and commitment to making kids’ lives healthier. You are a dedicated equity driven, solution-oriented professional who values community centered approach and systems-level change. Your ability to prioritize tasks, build internal and external relationships and be self-driven prepares you for this position.

You are a strategic thinker, planner, and critical partner in operationalizing an organization’s mission against important growth outcome and performance metrics. You can align key priorities across the organization, play a key role in creating scalable programs and processes by removing friction, streamlining growth, and making important health programs more easily accessible to all. You are a respected thought leader in the health and wellness sector with strong, established networks.

Your professional experience will show that you practice many of the following Healthier Generation core values:

Mission Driven: You are passionate about creating equitable environments for young people and believe every mind, every body, and every young personshould be healthy and ready to succeed. You demonstrate passion for school and youth-serving organizations, health and wellness, quality standards and processes.
Crave Solutions: You strategize to transform systems and drive sustainability through evidence-based, data-driven approaches. You have an ability to assess and identify significant opportunities and potential problems and develop feasible solutions to address the problem.
Bridge Builder: Making intentional and effective connections externally and internally to fulfill our purpose. You can build and maintain relationships with a variety of diverse stakeholders and have an understanding of the challenges facing communities that serve Black, Indigenous, and People of Color populations.
Engaged and Connected: You demonstrate professionalism and courtesy with open and proactive communication to increase synergy. You assume the best intentions and practice self-management and empathy to acknowledge our own and each other’s perspective. You can effectively provide and receive feedback that is constructive, timely, as appropriate.
Never Settle: You strive constantly for excellence and equity with an eagerness to improve and a zeal to stand up for generations of healthy, thriving kids. You have demonstrated knowledge and experience in cultural competency and applying an equity mindset with colleagues, leaders, stakeholders, and communities.
Virtually here: You respect the time and contributions of colleagues by being punctual, attentive, and responsive in all virtual settings. You use available technology to create an environment that facilitates person-to-person connectivity and workflow. You also have effective presentation skills (internal, external, small, large, conference calls, in-person).

Education & Experience Requirements

Minimum of fifteen years’ experience with progressively greater responsibilities and leadership roles with expertise in operations management, change management, and organizational transformation. Non-profit experience preferred.
Seven+ years and a successful track record effectively leading teams and individuals
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.
Experience managing high-profile grant relationships (seven figure plus) and successfully delivering against grant metrics.
Successful track record meeting or exceeding fund development targets
Exceptional writing and communication skills with experience in developing and presenting reports to a variety of audiences.
Demonstrated ability to develop and execute multiple complex projects and juggle competing deadlines.
Experience with operations management, change management, and organizational transformation.
Experience managing relationships with VIP external partners.

Other Requirements:

Brings deep experience in and passion for the child health and wellness sector, with a strong knowledge of the K-12 education sector's needs, challenges, and opportunities; prioritizes and understands the importance of promoting equity.
Demonstrated project management, time management, people management, and change management skills are required.
Completed coursework towards certification in project and/or change management, such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), and Lean/Six Sigma desired. Completed certification preferred.
Demonstrated experience collaboratively building a strategic plan.
Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and the ability to serve as an exemplar for an organization's values and foster an inclusive workplace.
Ability to influence, motivate, and manage direct reports, matrix reports, and cross-functional teams; able to successfully manage staff in a virtual office environment.
Strong strategic and systems thinker with the ability to motivate, inspire, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Diligent listener and effective communicator with outstanding written and verbal skills and the ability to adapt approaches among diverse audiences public speaking and connecting with partner organizations.
Process-oriented, with the ability to simplify, automate, and improve effectiveness through process improvements.
Proven ability to steward multiple funding relationships, secure grant funding, ongoing grant management and working with multiple budgets.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Office 365, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), marketing automation, data visualization and other systems
Required travel 30%.

Compensation and Benefits

At Healthier Generation, we believe in a holistic approach to rewarding and supporting staff. We work to balance financial stability with competitive pay and meaningful benefits –while offering unmatched schedule flexibility and mission-based work. Some of the benefits we offer include:

Flexible PTO (available immediately upon hire)
100% remote work, highly flexible work environment
Competitive health benefits program and employer contributions
Professional development and learning opportunities
401(k) employer match of up to 4%, with 100% vesting of the match upon hire
Stipend income to support communication and wellness in the amount of $1,500 per year (in per-paycheck increments)

Each job at Healthier Generation is assigned to a salary grade built on market data. For an individual coming into Healthier Generation, we set pay generally between the minimum and the midpoint of the salary grade and based on qualifications. For this position, the target salary range is between $118,000 and $133,000.

This job description is subject to change at any time.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is proud to provide Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility form.

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