United States of America: Community Health Academy Director

We are seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial leader to launch the Community Health Academy. Leading a fast-growing team, the CHA Director will be responsible for defining the CHA’s strategy, forging foundational partnerships, and launching a portfolio of products and services to advance CHA’s mission to build a global professional community health workforce. This role will involve high-level stakeholder engagement, vision-setting, and the management of the team to achieve critical early-stage milestones in the launch of the CHA’s programming.

Essential Job Functions:

• Launch the CHA. The Director will lead the recruitment of the CHA's start-up team, manage the budget, formalize first-round project agreements, and the support the acquisition of necessary revenue to fund CHA activities.
• Build an innovative program. The Director will lead the team to develop digital education resources for CHWs, supervisors, and policymakers and establish a technical advising practice that helps implementers and governments adapt best practice training.
• Forge foundational partnerships. Reporting to the CEO, the Director will manage the CHA’s relationships with key external stakeholders, such as our educational partner, HarvardX, community health implementing organizations, technical institutions such as the Global Fund or Gavi, and the country governments implementing CHW programs.

Qualifications:

• Master Degree in business, public health, policy, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of professional experience; at least 5 years of senior leadership or management experience
• Leadership and management skills (including staff and budget)
• Strategic planning and vision-setting
• Partnerships management and fundraising experience
• Knowledge of the global health policy, funding landscapes
• Ability to manage towards broad strategic priorities despite a shifting, complex environment

Founded by the survivors of Liberia’s civil war, Last Mile Health (LMH) saves lives in the world’s most remote communities. The organization specializes in the development and management of professionalized Community Health Workers who bridge the gap between the health system and remote communities, bringing critical services to the doorsteps of people living in the last mile. Last Mile Health is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization with offices in Liberia, Boston and New York. For more information, visit www.lastmilehealth.org.

In April 2017, Last Mile Health was awarded the TED Prize for LMH’s work to expand quality health care through community health services. In receiving this award, Last Mile Health has committed to work in coalition with community health practitioners, policy makers, academic partners and the technology industry to launch the Community Health Academy (CHA). CHA is a systems change start up that will train, empower, and connect those working within in community health. The CHA will serve as a global force for professionalizing CHWs, leveraging digital education and best practice technical assistance to deliver high-quality training to community health workers, their supervisors, and the policy makers and health systems managers who support them.

Please apply by visiting: https://careers-lastmilehealth.icims.com/jobs/1028/community-health-academy-director/job