Description

Position Title: Director, Immokalee PIH-US

Reports to: Assistant Director, Programs PIH-US

Location: Southwest Florida, Remote (local travel in Southwest travel several days a week and up to 10% travel outside of Southwest Florida as required for other PIH retreats and meetings)

Position Type: Full-time (may include evenings and weekends)

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 U.S. 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; 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 position is a leadership role responsible for developing and leading PIH-US’s technical advising, implementation, accompaniment efforts and other programming in Immokalee, FL and surrounding areas. The Director will drive strategy, set programmatic goals for PIH-US’s work in southwest Florida, and build relationships with community and regional partners. The Director will serve as the primary liaison with PIH-US’s local partners (e.g., Department of Health, HealthCare Network, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, community organizations) in the development of effective equitable public health and community responses to address chronic disparity and lack of access to services faced by vulnerable groups in Immokalee and surrounding areas. In addition, the Director will collaborate with PIH-US colleagues across the U.S., as well as PIH’s colleagues globally, to bring learnings and insights from Immokalee to national and international advocacy and communications initiatives and to bring PIH-US’s cross-site learnings to Immokalee. The Director will serve as a member of PIH-US’s senior leadership team.

Responsibilities

Technical advising, program strategy and delivery (60%)

• Develop and implement PIH-US’s technical advising support for our partners in Immokalee and surrounding areas on community health workforce development, community health systems strengthening and emergency epidemic response and preparedness.
• Continually identify new opportunities together with community and regional partners for PIH-US to add value and maximize impact with our advising support in Immokalee and the surrounding region. Provide strategic leadership, administrative and managerial oversight and monitoring of workstreams and priority initiatives in collaboration with local partners.
• Support partner community health program development, including implementation design, supervision/mentorship, and training.
• Oversee the development and delivery of a community health worker (CHW) training curriculum to build CHW capacity and facilitate CHW certification.
• Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders in relevant government agencies and with other implementing and technical partners.
• Interface with key stakeholders across all partnerships to ensure alignment with project objectives and budget, and lead meetings among the project partners and stakeholders.

Team, project and budget management, and evaluation (30%)

• Supervise the project team including the Immokalee Project Manager(s) in addition to other junior staff and/or volunteers; provide team with regular coaching, feedback and mentorship.
• Manage recruitment and onboarding of project staff as needed. Manage communication channels and ensure continuity and transparency across stakeholders.
• Oversee project management plan and approve project documents to support implementation.
• Evaluate performance using appropriate key performance indicators and project metrics, in collaboration with PIH-US monitoring & evaluation team; support donor reporting as needed.
• Collaborate with the Director of Partnership and other cross-site teams to drive resource mobilization for Immokalee programming and fundraising efforts.
• Support budget and project management, tracking advocacy-specific grants and spending, with support from PIH finance, grants and compliance teams.

National PIH-US strategy, advocacy and communications (10%)

• 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 Immokalee for multiple audiences.
• Serve as a 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

Required

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in relevant fields related to public health.
• 8-10 years of experience in public health program development and implementation with a preference for experience working with community health workers.
• Ability to meet and work in-person with partners in Immokalee, Florida and neighboring communities several days a week as required.
• Strategically minded, able to think creatively around program objectives and the detailed steps necessary to achieve these goals.
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice and health equity.
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and diplomacy-.
• Prior budget management experience.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively managing and prioritizing a large number of projects simultaneously in a complex and fast-paced organization and setting.
• Exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate effectively with staff and leadership across a diverse range of departments and organizations.

Preferred

• Experience with community health programs either in the U.S. or abroad .
• Proven experience crafting and executing strategy for innovative initiatives.
• Familiarity with U.S. public health systems.
• Keen understanding of working within the public sector.
• Experience managing projects that involve multiple stakeholders.
• Experience supervising teams in complex environments.
• Fluency in Spanish or Creole a plus.

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.