Strategic Director

End Hep C SF (EHCSF) is a multi-sector collective impact initiative that utilizes evidence-based practices, community wisdom, and the creative leveraging of resources to work toward hepatitis C elimination in San Francisco. Launched in 2016, the city-based hepatitis C elimination initiative EHCSF has over 120 members representing 38 organizations. The initiative is both privately and publicly funded.

The EHCSF Strategic Director will assist all workgroups and members by supporting the overall execution of the initiative’s strategic plan while supporting the direction of day-to-day operations. This position will focus on engaging impacted populations through the community navigator program and community meetings, manage initiative grants and budgets, and conceptualize and execute EHCSF community events.

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), grant-funded, benefited position provided by End Hep C SF’s fiscal sponsor Public Health Foundation. The person filling this position will mostly work from home, with increasing in-person commitments as COVID restrictions abate in coming years.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Under supervision of the SFDPH Viral Hepatitis Coordinator and the Coordinating Committee, the EHCSF Strategic Director will oversee the End Hep C SF initiative with a focus on the initiative’s growth and direction, relationships with local and national communities involved in HCV elimination, and grants management and development. This position acts as supervisor to the End Hep C SF Program Coordinator.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Manage public and private grants for the End Hep C SF initiative
• Attend all End Hep C SF workgroups and community meetings
• Represent End Hep C SF in local and state hepatitis-related initiatives
• Reconceptualize and execute programmatic changes for the community navigator program
• Stay abreast of changes in the hepatitis field
• Manage initiative branding, direct social media presence
• Pursue opportunities for initiative growth and change
• Serve as liaison between the workgroups, Coordinating Committee, and HepC Executive Advisory Committee
• Analyze and present data at scientific meetings and other conferences

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Grants management experience
• Sensitivity to and experience working with diverse racial/ethnic communities, people experiencing homelessness, and people who use drugs
• Experience with community organizing
• Experience in quality improvement methods
• Demonstrated success with public and private fundraising/grant writing
• Comfort with learning and using different computer applications
• Knowledge of harm reduction

Education/Experience

• 4-year college degree preferred. Experience in community organizing, grants management, and harm reduction work can substitute for a degree
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary collaboratives

Other Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• Ability to work independently and in groups, act as a “self-starter”
• Strong written and oral communication skills

EHCSF encourages people with lived experience of hepatitis C, homelessness and substance use, people of color, and queer-identified people to apply

Please submit your resume with a cover letter describing your interest in this position for consideration.

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

COVID-19 considerations: All staff work remotely until future public health department guidance permits.

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Work Location:

• Fully Remote

This Job Is:

• A “Fair Chance” job (you or the employer follow Fair Chance hiring practices when performing background checks)

Company's website:

• EndHepCSF.org

Company's Facebook page:

• https://www.facebook.com/EndHepCSF/

Benefit Conditions:

• Only full-time employees eligible

COVID-19 Precaution(s):

• Remote interview process
• Personal protective equipment provided or required
• Plastic shield at work stations
• Temperature screenings
• Social distancing guidelines in place
• Virtual meetings
• Sanitizing, disinfecting, or cleaning procedures in place