Please Note: This is a remote role open to candidates that reside in OR or WA only.

Job Summary:

Oversees multiple teams in planning and organizing the market-wide delivery of short and long range strategic community initiatives and focus areas, ensuring alignment with community health priorities and organizational goals. Oversees the development and implementation of long-term community health strategic plans. Guides the organization in building and maintaining key and highly complex relationships with stakeholders including non-profits, for profits, elected officials, public agencies, and other key community and internal stakeholders to engage in long-term strategic community health work. Champions KPs position and strategic long-term commitment to community health to internal and external audiences. Oversees community health grantmaking and investments by overseeing teams and championing innovative charitable contribution strategies in alignment with other community health priorities. Oversees compliant portfolios and ensures accountability is built in the strategy and portfolio of work for charitable contributions/operations and systems so that programs and activities are in compliance with legislative, regulatory, and KP policies, and promoting a speak up culture. Oversees market-wide portfolio assessment, budget analysis, and preparation of strategic, short-term and long-term community health spending plans.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Builds organizational capacity and prepares high potentials for growth opportunities and advancement; builds collaborative networks inside and outside the organization for self and others. Provides framework for soliciting and acting on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Models and drives continuous learning and oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; stays current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Acts as a thought leader on industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; shares best practices within and across teams to drive improvement. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning cross-functional resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact across teams.

• Oversees the operation of multiple units and/or departments by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment allocation and completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Engages strategic, cross-functional business units to champion and drive support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and ensures resolution of escalated issues. Sets and communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; obtains and distributes resources. Anticipates and removes obstacles that impact performance; addresses performance gaps and implements contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives; serves as a subject-matter expert and trusted source to executive leadership; provides influence and consultation in the development of the larger organizational or business strategy.

• Leads budgeting and financial planning by: overseeing community health operations, grantmaking, and budgets for organization-wide initiatives and overall portfolio ensuring that community health objectives are attained and within approved budget parameters; overseeing market-wide portfolio assessment, budget analysis, and preparation of strategic, short-term and long-term community health spending plans; and aligning and monitoring community health funded programs with community health strategy and reviewing, developing, and advancing short-term and long-term, organization-wide business cases.

• Champions community health grantmaking and investments by: overseeing administration of and presenting at market charitable contributions committee meetings, training, and orienting committee members; contributing to long-term enterprise-wide goals and strategy design decisions across markets using multiple sources of data and lessons learned from previous and existing grantmaking and the field; defining key organizational objectives regarding charitable contributions programs/initiatives, including investments, in-kind, and business operational assets, and providing oversight in consultation, technical assistance, and training initiatives; contributing to long-term enterprise-wide goals and strategy design decisions across markets using data and lessons learned from multiple program evaluations; driving long-term planning and contributing to corporate goals when developing grants, including scoping, inviting, analyzing, developing recommendations, presenting to committees; and overseeing teams and championing innovative charitable contribution strategies in alignment with other community health priorities.

• Directs communication strategies by: overseeing strategic communications between KP and management in community agencies regarding health programs; championing KPs position and strategic long-term commitment to community health to internal and external audiences; defining the standards for corporate marketing, community relations outreach, and media opportunities to increase visibility of community health portfolio and programs; directing regular communication with internal and external stakeholders through regular reports and presentations as needed to communicate the long-term impact of community and social health initiatives; overseeing the development of communications strategies to update programs, related stories, factsheets, press releases, and news articles; representing KP by overseeing teams and the strategic engagement approach and participating in collaboratives, working groups, advisory boards, committees, panels, conferences, and planning groups; and educating and influencing community leaders by championing KPs value and long-term commitment to communities served.

• Champions community health program management by: championing community health programs in KPs Community Health Program, including planning, design and operations of national and/or market internal and external initiatives that address community wellbeing aligned with business priorities, community health needs assessment, and/or community engagement; overseeing teams and/or collaboration with functional areas to ensure alignment that all community health programs and activities meet the needs of KPs diverse communities; influencing and overseeing community health strategies and programs across the market, including philanthropy, in-kind, and/or community health improvement programs at the local and/or market level; overseeing multiple teams in planning, and organizing the market-wide delivery of short and long range strategic community initiatives and focus areas, ensuring alignment with community health priorities and organizational goals; and overseeing the design, development, and implementation of strategic programs that measurably improve community health and support the organizations tax-exempt status.

• Champions regulatory compliance by: overseeing compliant portfolios and ensuring accountability is built in the strategy and portfolio of work for charitable contributions/operations and systems that are in compliance with legislative, regulatory and KP policies, and promoting a speak up culture; and driving strategic long-term planning to ensure accuracy of information included in all regulatory, governmental, and KP reports and overseeing report writing and submission of all regulatory reports.

• Leverages organizational resources by: championing innovation for leveraging in-kind resources from KP, including technical expertise, programs managed by KP, and operational assets (e.g., hiring, investments, purchasing) to connect to, support, and improve the health of KP communities and organizations and driving organization-wide strategies for bi-directional learning from stakeholders.

• Champions stakeholder relationships by: guiding the organization in building and maintaining key and highly complex relationships with community leaders including non-profits, for profits, elected officials, public agencies, and other key community and internal stakeholders to engage in long-term strategic community health work; engaging market and program office leadership and other key internal and external stakeholders to oversee execution of community health strategies; establishing market, program office, and/or enterprise-wide partnerships with community organizations to advance KPs mission; overseeing work groups involving members of different departments to drive strategic long-term partnerships between health plan, care delivery, and community organizations that serve identified populations; and championing collaborative and strategic partnerships with philanthropic, policy, public health, and academic organizations to advance shared missions.

• Champions strategic planning by: overseeing the development and implementation of long-term community health strategic plans; leading, directing, establishing, planning, and implementing strategic long-term national and market community health programs, projects, and initiatives; overseeing strategic development and implementation of a market wide integrated community health plan which supports the organizations strategic long-term goals and ensures alignment to local medical service area needs; and supporting market and national teams and Communities of Practice to oversee long-term, strategic, and innovative approaches to population health improvement.

  Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum six (6) years of experience managing operational or project budgets.

• Minimum five (5) years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university AND minimum twelve (12) years of experience in government, public health, health services, economic development, community/social/human services, or related field OR Minimum fifteen (15) years of experience in government, public health, health services, economic development, community/social/human services, or a related field.

  Additional Requirements:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Written Communication; Compliance Management; Health Care Compliance; Health Care Policy; Financial Acumen; Financial Plan Budgeting; Community Health; Company Representation; Interpersonal Skills; Managing Diverse Relationships; Relationship Building; Stakeholder Management; Community Engagement; Computer Literacy; Microsoft Office; Presentation Skills; Applied Data Analysis; Project Management

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Senior Director, Community Health

LOCATION: Renton, Washington

REQNUMBER: 1300482

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.