Program Manager, American Heart Association Ventures, Development and Operations

Overview

As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Program Manager, American Heart Association Ventures, Development and Operations!

This position can be home-based.

You will lead project management to support revenue development and donor stewardship across programs within the Association's impact investing platform. Association Ventures' vision builds upon the overall Association’s mission by funding programs that ensure the translation of high-quality, evidence-based science, research, and clinical know-how into an actionable, meaningful, equitable, and sustainable positive impact on patients and the healthcare system.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

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Responsibilities

The program managed will work to support existing programs, including but not limited to:

-The Social Impact Fund funds sustainable, scalable businesses that address social drivers of health through equity investments, loans, and grants. This fund supports organizations that expand health access and quality, drive economic empowerment, and address food insecurity.

-The Go Red for Women Venture Fund is an emerging program designed to fund companies driving scientific advancements and practical solutions and products to improve women’s health. The Go Red For Women Venture Fund leverages the Association's history of leading scientific research, public awareness, and advocacy for women's cardiovascular and brain health

-The Association’s Studios, a program helping design new mission-aligned enterprises to support the Association's mission to be a relentless force for longer, healthier lives.

This position will work internally with a broad group of key stakeholders, including mission advancement leaders at the national level and in all five Association regions, field/market teams in existing and new Social Impact Fund markets, national corporate relations, and all Association ventures-related staff and volunteer leaders.

This leader will work with cross-functional and cross-departmental teams to coordinate, execute, monitor, and control broad-reaching programs and projects. This individual will ensure the development of an overarching plan(s) and help teams prioritize tactics to implement an effective and resource-efficient plan. This individual may also work internally with key stakeholders and externally with strategic alliances.

• Provides project management for critical projects. Identifies and manages project scope, schedule, development of process flows, and providing role clarity) and deliverables. Drives accountability to the program plan(s). Foster cross-departmental collaboration and communication among departments. Communicates regularly with internal staff, management, volunteers, and consultants for assigned projects to advance the plan and execution of plan/guidelines Leads team meetings to drive plan coordination and collaboration amongst team members and stakeholders. Helps the team(s) prioritize tactics and strategies.
• Prepares communications, including customization and preparation of donor and sponsor presentations and reports, leveraging established templates and custom communications, and gathering content from various sources to create compelling and informative narratives. Ensure donor recognition fulfillment for donor portfolio, ensuring preparation in collaboration with other departments to meet multiple recognition objectives.
• Supports the Managing Director of Development and Operations in the development and execution of a robust, overarching revenue development program plan(s) with thorough and efficient tactical execution, collaborating across departments and ensuring alignment with Mission Advancement, Social Impact Fund, and association standards. Understands market/ industry/donor trends and the science/ guidelines supporting strategic focus and continually ensures a deep understanding of the objectives and impact of the program. Seeks collaborations and connections to drive more significant impact to the plan. Develops a plan that includes clear and coordinated strategies, tactics, goals, and outcomes with cross-departmental teams. Determines program(s) outcomes and goal measurements. Develops a dashboard and reporting structure to be conveyed internally to key stakeholders and sponsors, leveraging the CRM as a primary data source, along with others.
• Records plans, interactions, activities, and results of donor and prospect relationships in the association CRM, ensuring timely record-keeping and adherence to standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Two (2) – Five (5) years of relevant experience.
• Planning/Product or Program Management.
• Marketing execution for Digital/Web, Public Health, and/or Advertising.
• Business and Web Analytics.
• Office Suite (Word, Outlook, advanced Excel, advanced PowerPoint), smartsheets.
• Software applications that manage projects, timelines, and communicate processes.
• Philanthropy, nonprofit, community impact, or relations.
• Persuasive writing and presentations, including proposals.
• Ability to travel up to 5% local and overnight stay.

Preferred Experience:

• Bachelor of Science in Business, Marketing or Public Health.
• Master’s degree in business, Public Health or /and Marketing.
• PMP Certification is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary midpoint to the max of the range is $85,900.00 to $120,000.00. Pay is commensurate with experience; geographic differentials to the pay range may apply.

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package.  Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

• Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary.  That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success by merit increases and incentive programs, based on the type of position.  
• Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution.  As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
• Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program.  HeartU is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees.  The number of days will increase based on seniority level.  You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.
• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees.  This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

The American Heart Association’s 2028 Goal: Building on over 100 years of trusted leadership in cardiovascular and brain health, by 2028 the AHA will drive breakthroughs and implement proven solutions in science, policy, and care for healthier people and communities. The greatest discoveries in health must reach everyone where they are.

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