Director, Health Impact Innovation (Chicago/Hybrid)

Work. Serve. Thrive.

Feeding America is the nation's largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.

Learn more about Feeding America here.

This is ahybrid position based out of Feeding America's Chicago office location. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees must be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and can work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day "work anywhere" program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.

• Provide leadership and subject matter expertise in the execution of the assigned team's work, ensuring that key deliverables, project execution plans, long-range resource need and business case, project budget, timelines, and action steps are clearly articulated, monitored, and met.
• Oversee the execution of grants, and other major projects providing project management structure and direction to project team members as well as external consultants. Ensure that the process and structure are in place to meet grant deliverable and reporting commitments.
• Partner in the development and implementation of Feeding America's enterprise-level Health Innovation efforts and Holistic Supports strategies, as well as any other related strategies, providing guidance and consultation to key FANO and network food bank stakeholders to support implementation of these strategies.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and act as a decision maker in the development of proposals and project plans for fundraising opportunities. Actively collaborate with Development team members in donor cultivation and stewardship, funding proposal development and impact/progress reporting.
• Contribute to the annual planning process ensuring creation of objectives, measures, activities, and budget, and assist with the integration within individual team members' scopes of work.
• Lead collaborative efforts across departments, to support the evidence building, translation, and dissemination of models, programs, and partnerships that seek to improve key outcomes, build capacity, and inform continuous learning across the network.
• Identify and elevate national partnerships and models that contribute to team-related (Health Equity, Economic Mobility, Charitable Food Access) strategic goals and engage partners to innovatively address the intersection of food insecurity, nutrition, health and equity.
• In partnership with the Learning Team, develop and facilitate trainings and technical assistance to the network and other stakeholders via a range of modalities, including documenting and disseminating key learnings and resources with internal and external audiences, and with a focus on ensuring sustainable implementation and impact.
• Represent Feeding America by serving as a subject matter expert on national advisory councils, task forces, and committees, as well as through speaking engagements at conferences, coalitions, meetings, webinars and similar events, as appropriate.
• Build and nurture a high performing Health Innovation Team by developing people and furthering their relevant expertise. Identify essential leadership and functional competencies for key roles and coach and develop talent in this space for Feeding America. Create an environment in which individuals from diverse backgrounds can bring their full selves to work and one in which everyone's needs, goals, and development are a priority.
• Guide and coach teams to properly define the challenge or opportunity they are using the innovation process to solve for. Push teams to use their most expansive and non-conventional thinking to generate a broad set of ideas and possibilities.
• In partnership with network members and department leadership, support the identification of areas of greatest opportunity to pursue and apply disruptive innovation to advance our work in this space.
• In collaboration with department leadership, Government Relations, Network, and Advocacy and Community Partnerships departments, support the development and implementation of processes for monitoring changes in the external environment as well as key trends in the non-profit sector. Support leveraging these insights to identify and implement innovative opportunities that have the potential to improve our effectiveness in securing payer/provider contracts, increasing awareness that food insecurity is a public health crisis, and strengthening the capacity and efficiency of the national office and network to improve the health of neighbors through nutritious foods and improve their access to social determinants of health.
• Support department leadership to cultivate partnerships in Supply Chain, Information Technology and other functional leaders to implement a vision and identify strategic opportunities for healthy food sourcing and leveraging technology to accelerate our mission.
• Support department leadership to cultivate relationships and partnerships with public/private/non-profit leaders and influencers that will create pathways for business models that pay members for delivering medically tailored foods and other nutrition supports
• Support the monitoring and evaluation of innovation happening throughout our network for the dual purpose of sharing promising practices and scaling what works.
• Support the development and fulfillment of performance measures and create and oversee the management of a stage-gate process to evaluate, qualify, manage and develop new ideas, including rapid prototyping and testing of new solutions, where needed.