Chief Health Equity Officer

Who We Are

Alliance for a Healthier Generation is engaged in high-impact philanthropy by ensuring that “every mind, everybody, and every young person is healthy and ready to succeed.” But today in the United States, not all kids have the same opportunity for a healthy future.

Since our inception, whole child health equity has been a central tenant of Healthier Generation’s work with the recognition that poverty and educational disenfranchisement are key drivers of health and health equity. In addition, we understand that racial discrimination continues to be an explicit factor in the systemic distribution of resources that support whole child health equity. Armed with this knowledge, Healthier Generation is rapidly advancing an ambitious health equity vision anchored a measurable strategic framework, programs, and its organizational impact goals.

The Opportunity

Healthier Generation is seeking a Chief Health Equity Officer (CHEO) to ensure accountability in achieving the organization’s health equity vision. Together with the organization’s Board, CEO and executive team, you will have the opportunity to co-design and lead a data-informed health equity plan and strategy, including making resource recommendations to successfully implement the plan organization-wide.

Reporting directly to the CEO, the ideal candidate will be an experienced and results-driven innovative leader with proven strategic planning, partnership / fundraising building, program leadership and operational skills. You will build, guide, and assess effective strategies, partnerships, programs, policies, and best practices that advance Healthier Generation’s health equity vision, externally and internally within the communities in which we serve. You will ensure the measurable health equity, as defined by a set of guiding JEDI principles and SMARTIE goals, are fully integrated into Healthier Generation’s program and partnership model, as well as its organizational brand messaging and culture. You will lead our health equity philanthropy efforts that align with our work and support specific development and business development goals of the CHEO.

Responsibilities Health Equity Strategy and Planning (15%) :

• Provide expertise to benefit organizational program strategy, tactics, communications, development, and business development efforts.
• Collaborate closely with all staff to further advance Healthier Generation’s strategic framework for whole child health equity focus – ensuring timely completion of established justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) / Health Equity goals, measurable impact, and overall accountability :
• Serve as a member of the executive and senior leadership structure to drive organizational strategies and priorities (internal / external programmatic and funding), partner effectively with leaders from across the organization.
• Facilitate decision-making, collaboration, and problem solving with employees at all levels of the organization to accomplish shared goals.
• Partner with leadership to envision and execute regional strategies to foster relationships with key stakeholders and funders that drive Healthier Generation’s brand, reach, and impact.
• Advise Healthier Generation leadership, teams, and partners about strategy and delivery of evidence based equitable, diverse, inclusive, and just approaches in service of reducing and ultimately eliminating inequities in health.
• Lead the development of technology tools that enable just, equitable, diverse, inclusive, and effective initiative delivery, client engagement, and progress tracking.
• Contribute to long-range budgetary planning.
• Keep current and abreast of national, state, and local legislation, academic research, and other developments with impacts to health equity in child and family health, to inform approaches, opportunities, or directions.
• Drive a performance-based culture through accountability, coaching and mentoring of colleagues and providing regular feedback to foster leadership and strategic thinking.

Health Equity Implementation (20%) :

Internal DEI (15%) :

Fundraising and Development (50%) :

Qualifications

Other Requirements

Education and Experience

At Healthier Generation, we believe in a holistic approach to rewarding and supporting staff. We work to balance financial stability with competitive pay and meaningful benefits while offering unmatched schedule flexibility and mission-based work. Some of the benefits we offer include :

The salary range for this role is between $144,000-$162,000.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is proud to provide Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.