Reporting to the President and CEO of Memorial Health, the Senior Vice President & Chief Community Impact and Philanthropy Officer provides strategic leadership for the health system’s three rural hospitals, ensuring high-quality, accessible, and sustainable care for the communities they serve. This executive is also responsible for shaping and advancing Memorial Health’s next chapter of philanthropic growth by leading enterprise-wide philanthropy, fostering strong relationships with donors and stakeholders to advance the organization’s mission and expand its impact.  In addition, the SVP & Chief Community Impact and Philanthropy Officer will oversee the enterprise-wide community strategy, partnering with senior executives, civic leaders, strategic partners and donors to advance Memorial Health’s mission.

This executive coaches and develops colleagues to their fullest potential, providing educational and developmental opportunities as needed. Equips colleagues to fully utilize the time, talent, technology, and resources available to them to ensure maximum effectiveness and efficiency.

The SVP, Chief Community Impact and Philanthropy Officer will embody the Memorial Health values of safety, integrity, quality, and stewardship to support the mission and vision.

Education:

• Master’s degree in public health, healthcare administration, business administration, or similar field of study required.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Fellow of American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) preferred.

Knowledge & Work Experience:

• Minimum of ten (10) years of senior-level leadership experience in rural hospitals.
• Minimum ten (10) years of overall philanthropy experience.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of overall community health improvement experience.
• Experience collaborating with executives, board members, community partners, healthcare associations, donors and volunteers on community health-related activities.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strategic Mindset: Strong visionary skills with an ability to translate complex strategies into aggressive goals, targets and action plans that deliver results. Maintains ongoing feedback, measurement and assessment processes that determine progress to plan.
• Business Insight: Deep understanding of the market dynamics, competitive landscape, and healthcare trends. Demonstrates intellectual curiosity by seeking out new information and market awareness and uses that knowledge to advance Memorial Health’s philanthropic progress.
• Financial Acumen: Familiarity with financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting to evaluate strategic initiatives, understanding the financial indicators/levers to deliver earnings at or above budget, regardless of changes in the environment.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively inspire support of Memorial Health’s mission and philanthropic activities.
• Stakeholder & Community Engagement: Builds and nurtures strong relationships with board, enterprise leadership, Memorial Health colleagues, and key community partners; able to engage persuasively with internal and external contacts to garner support for Foundations.

• Rural Hospital Leadership: In partnership with the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) CEOs and their respective boards, brings strategic and operational alignment to the rural hospitals, ensuring excellence in patient care, financial sustainability, workforce engagement.

Acts as a visionary and strategic leader, who ensures fulfillment of mission and progress towards vision, while able to establish credibility and confidence with hospital colleagues, physicians, advance practice providers, government officials, community leaders, board members, donors and other internal and external stakeholders of Memorial Health. 

Works in collaboration with these stakeholders by providing executive leadership and coordinating matters pertaining to patient care, quality improvement and experiences to create efficiencies, reduce costs and eliminate barriers while improving the health status of the communities served by the rural hospitals.

Builds and maintains cohesive leadership teams. Provide leadership, direction and support for direct reports and develops succession plans to ensure leadership continuity.

• Enterprise Philanthropy: Provides executive leadership for Memorial Health’s philanthropic efforts by developing and driving overall fundraising strategies and donor engagement to secure resources which fuel innovation, expand services, and meet community needs.

Chairs the Philanthropy Coalition comprised of hospital CEOs, Foundation Directors and key internal stakeholders.

In partnership with the enterprise hospital CEOs and foundation directors and boards, provides leadership for five (5) hospital foundations, ensuring alignment with foundation operations and vision; establishes operational processes, data systems, reporting and other tools to scale impact.

Inspires and cultivates relationships with donors, community partners, and stakeholders to support mission-driven initiatives. Fosters and sustains relationships with donors, board members, corporate partners and community leaders; builds robust, meaningful donor pipelines with high emphasis on personalized, white glove relationship-building to build an engaging donor experience.

Establishes best practices in fundraising, donor stewardship, and financial management to enhance efficiency and effectiveness; monitors and analyzes fundraising performance, leveraging data and insights to inform future strategies.

• Community Impact: Oversees the development and implementation of an organization wide strategic plan for community impact in alignment with the health system’s overall strategy and priorities.

Provides executive collaboration with senior leaders and key community partners to ensure the successful implementation of the plan while providing executive sponsorship of Memorial Health’s community health engagement and improvement initiatives.

Ensures that community impact is fully embedded into operations, patient care, workforce strategy, and environmental, social, and governance priorities.

Shapes the organization’s stance on key community issues, representing Memorial Health at both state and national levels.

Guides organization-level investment in community health initiatives, partnerships, and philanthropy and establishes enterprise-wide metrics to measure social impact, population health outcomes, and equity goals.