Vice President of Health Justice

Position Overview:

The Vice President of Health Justice is a member of the organization’s executive leadership and leads a team of policy experts, researchers, legal analysts, government relations specialists and coalition managers collectively focused on building a health care system that works for women. The health justice team’s current focus includes protecting and preserving the Affordable Care Act; comprehensive health care access and coverage (public and private, including Medicaid and Medicare); maternal health and disparities in mortality and morbidity, particularly among women of color; digital health/health IT; health care transformation (payment, delivery, equity, patient-centeredness and culturally appropriate care), and the intersection of all these issues with reproductive health, economic, and social justice policies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Shape the direction of the National Partnership’s Health Justice work by developing and executing high impact strategies that improve health care and advance health equity, particularly for women of color.
• Lead, manage, and nurture a team, promoting team members’ core competencies, and provide professional development and mentoring of individual team members.
• Play a key role in building and maintaining strategic relationships with allies and key stakeholders, including policy makers and coalition partners.
• Expand relationships with current funders and forge new relationships with potential foundations, individuals and corporate funders to expand the revenue base for the program and the organization; develop new program ideas and revenue sources.
• Work with other VPs and teams to foster creative initiatives across issues areas.
• Provide strategic input to the President regarding Health Justice program development and other organizational work.
• Participate in the organization’s executive leadership activities, particularly in furthering the organization’s work on racial equity.
• Represent the National Partnership in public forums, the press, Congress and on select external bodies.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Demonstrated ability to shape and implement strategic health care related advocacy that impacts public policy, private sector behavior, and social norms.
• An understanding of the inter-related nature and dynamics between health justice, reproductive rights and reproductive justice, as well as the inter-related impacts of race, gender and other economic and social policies that shape the lives of women and families.
• Experience building collaborative relationships with allies and fostering coordinated impact, for example by building and leading diverse coalitions or building relationships with women of color leaders and organizations at the grassroots, state and national levels.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining foundation and funder relationships, and generating funding from foundations and other sources, including the ability to shape compelling project proposals that align with strategic priorities; effective in making direct asks for financial resources.
• Experience managing a high-performing team of 2 or more people (larger teams a plus) in a successful, high-quality manner, including hiring, retaining and developing talent.
• Sophisticated understanding of how race dynamics impact supervisory relationships, organizational culture, partnerships, campaigns and coalition work, and demonstrated history successfully intervening in problematic dynamics and deepening a racial justice approach within an organization, team, or campaign; effectiveness in pushing movement partners and allies to incorporate racial equity into their work.
• Demonstrated commitment to anti-racism and gender equity.
• Effective public speaking skills and experience, and a willingness to engage with media and do press interviews; specific prior experience with print or live press a plus but not required.
• Ability to produce and edit clear and compelling written materials that support high-impact advocacy.
• Experience with strategic organizational development and change management.
• ?Specific policy knowledge on the range of health issues listed above preferred but not required.

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position is responsible for directly managing the Managing Director, Director of Maternal Health, Director of Health Systems Transformation, and Director of Policy and leads the Health Justice department.

Classification

The National Partnership recognizes a staff bargaining unit, National Partnership United, affiliated with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union/IFPTE Local 70, a union for non-profit workers. This position is NOT included in the NP United bargaining unit. Specific employment terms are subject to collective bargaining. The first 6 months of employment are a probationary period.

Salary and Benefits

The salary range for this role is $193,396 – $231,664 with the exact salary determined by years of relevant experience, in alignment with NPWF’s compensation setting criteria.

The National Partnership provides a benefits package that includes generous paid time off including paid federal holidays plus an office closure the last week of December; comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance; 403B and SEP-IRA retirement options; health, transit, parking, and dependent care flexible spending accounts; life insurance and long term disability insurance; paid family and medical leave for eligible employees; and more.

Office and Team Culture

The National Partnership is a 60+ person staff that fosters a collaborative culture. We have a collegial work environment. The National Partnership is committed to protecting our employees and our communities from COVID-19. Toward that goal, the National Partnership requires all employees to be fully vaccinated and completely up to date via an FDA authorized and/or approved COVID-19 vaccination. Fully Vaccinated is defined by the CDC as being 2 weeks after the final dose in a primary series of COVID-19 vaccines (2 doses of Pfizer or Moderna, 1 dose of Johnson & Johnson). Up to date means a person has received all recommended COVID-19 vaccines, including any booster dose(s) when eligible. New employees must be fully vaccinated before their start date, and up to date as soon as eligible, unless an exemption due to a medical condition or a sincerely held religious belief or practice is granted.

The National Partnership is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to racial equity and social justice. We make a particular effort to recruit people of color to apply for open positions. People of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities, and people with other historically underrepresented identities are encouraged to apply. Please see EEO is the Law and Equal Employment Opportunity for more information.

If you require reasonable accommodations as part of the hiring process, please email accomadations@nationalpartnership.org.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

How to Apply: Please upload your resume and cover letter by 11:59 pm May 26th.