Volunteer Director of Strategic Partnerships

Human Health Project (HHP) is a holistic health literacy charity. Our mission is to improve the health of the underserved and vulnerable through holistic information, education and advocacy. Our objective is to empower people to manage their own health with improved outcomes and no medical errors. For more information, please visit our website including viewing our "Shared Patient Information" program page which includes 50 pages of reports on both our Migraine and Lupus and feedback received from people who reviewed the reports in the section, "What Our Members are Saying" - https://tinyurl.com/4c5y3mfa and our "Healthcare Access Program" which includes short video courses in our Learning Academy - https://tinyurl.com/4xwdz5wh , Patient Advocacy Workshops in Los Angeles, - https://tinyurl.com/mryave5x and in Northern Ireland - https://tinyurl.com/nhj6kp7p and our Online Peer to Peer Events - https://tinyurl.com/5ddmxuyn "

A director of strategic partnerships is responsible for expanding community relations and informing existing or new partners of our strategic business goals. Your job duties are to work closely with other executives to define short- and long-term policies and strategies and then connect with internal and external stakeholders to expand on these charity visions.

Qualifications for the position include years of career experience, existing contact networks with suitable partners, and superlative interpersonal skills. In your new role, you will work on:

• Expanding the community of HHP partner organisations by engaging with external stakeholders and developing relationships and connections that help to advance HHP's priorities and aims.
• Aligning priorities of the organization with existing or new partners. Help with securing on-going 'buy-in' for these innovations.
• Helping to secure grant and other funding agreements including partnership agreements, service level agreements and memorandums of understanding.
• Liaising with other charitable strategic funders regarding the potential for (and offer of) large or small scale funding towards projects.
• Project-manage outreach activities and/or bid development groups including project and service managers, finance colleagues, and other internal and external partners leading to submission of high quality funding/partnership applications and proposals.
• Contribute to the wider development of HHP's work in Ireland and the US and provide insight/opinion/commentary on issues of Partnership/Community Engagement/Outreach linked to program success but also program development.

Desirable

• Experience of partnerships/community engagement work in the charity field/health/or social care field.
• Experience of generating large or small grants from Lottery, statutory or European funders, or from other institutional funders
• Well-developed negotiating and influencing skills - ability to shape funders’ decisions/external partner decisions around aligning with HHP
• Experience of project management is desirable
• Knowledge of key marketing principles is desirable
• Experience of using business planning tools and techniques is desirable
• Experience of developing accurate and relevant short, medium and long term financial and resource proposals for new and existing projects/services supported by effective monitoring and evaluation criteria.
• Willingness to give 1-2 hours per week and attend a regular weekly planning call via Zoom.