Manager, Health Impact

Description

The Manager of Health Impact is responsible for promoting health and wellness initiatives throughout the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas’ service area, with a specific focus on Southern Dallas, in alignment with UWMD’s Southern Dallas Thrives initiative. This unique position will work closely in collaboration with both the Health & Wellness and the Southern Dallas Thrives initiatives and teams.

Core primary focuses of this role include:

• Increasing community-level awareness of health navigation services.
• Promoting access to resources for targeted high-vulnerability areas.
• Developing strategies for expanded health impact.

The Manager is involved with United Way’s health programs throughout the year and may play a vital leadership role in Southern Dallas Thrives and Health Impact-related events, meetings, and coalitions as needed.

This position also:

• Produces the monthly health access newsletter.
• Serves on subcommittees that support both Health Impact and Southern Dallas Thrives.
• Leads collaboration efforts across targeted service areas.
• Administers and implements current and future programming to drive measurable impact.

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, competitive applicants should demonstrate the following competencies:

Mission-Focused: Create social change that leads to improving lives in our community.

Relationship-Oriented: Communicates effectively to develop, grow, and sustain productive relationships. Captures and interprets relevant information to forge partnerships, collaborate, cultivate, and strengthen internal and external relationships.

Purposeful: Dedicated to shared and measurable goals; creating, resourcing, scaling, and leveraging strategies and innovations for broad impact.

Stewards: Acts transparently, meets the highest ethical standards, and aligns actions, behaviors, and decisions with organizational goals on behalf of donors.

Role Overview

The Manager of Health Impact serves as a critical member of the Community Impact Department. This position works closely with the Vice President of Health & Wellness and the Vice President of the Southern Dallas Thrives Initiative to administer and implement programming and products to drive measurable impact aligned with United Way of Metropolitan Dallas’ pillars of Education, Income, and Health.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will possess strong abilities in the following areas:

• Social perceptiveness
• Complex problem-solving
• Systems analysis and evaluation
• Judgment and decision-making
• Administration and management of multifaceted projects

The candidate must be a solution-focused, self-starter who can manage large-scale program operations and conceptualize, develop, and implement plans for programming execution that yield impactful outcomes.

United Way of Metropolitan Dallas is fully committed to becoming a fully inclusive, multicultural, and antiracist organization. Candidates who share this commitment and actively engage with antiracist ideas, behaviors, and actions are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

Education:
Bachelor’s degree required; a degree in Urban Planning, Non-Profit Management, Public Administration, Business Administration, Communications, or related fields is preferred. Equivalent experience in effective non-profit management may substitute for educational requirements.

Experience:

• A minimum of 4 years of non-profit work experience is required.
• A Master’s degree may substitute for two years of experience.
• Background in program development and management, business administration, and/or non-profit management is strongly desired.

Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with high-level presentation abilities.
• Exceptional project management, organizational, and administrative skills.
• Ability to multi-task, maintain focus, self-start, and meet strict deadlines in a demanding environment.
• Skilled in relationship building, with the ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Proficient in tracking and reporting outcomes using high-level data analysis.
• Strong critical thinking and meticulous analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, especially when interacting with people of diverse backgrounds.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to complete tasks within defined timelines.
• Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other relevant computer programs.
• Flexible and proactive in approach.
• Ability to work independently, as part of a team, and with minimal supervision.

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