Overview
Program Director, Health Jobs in Denver, USA at Rose Community Foundation
Rose Community Foundation strives to strengthen local communities, expand opportunities and address critical needs in Greater Denver and beyond through values-driven philanthropy across a range of issue areas. The Foundation envisions a thriving region strengthened by its diversity and generosity, and it utilizes the varied tools at its disposal—grantmaking, donor engagement, voice and leadership, and investments—to advance this aspiration.
Rose Community Foundation originated from the 1995 sale of Rose Medical Center, founded by the Jewish community in the late 1940s at a time when Jewish doctors and doctors of color were denied hospital privileges elsewhere due to discrimination. Since inception, the Foundation has granted more than $450 million to nonprofit organizations and initiatives in the seven-county Greater Denver area and beyond.
The Foundation has $433 million in total assets under management, with annual grantmaking and distributions of nearly $30 million – roughly $11 million of which are the Foundation’s annual discretionary grantmaking dollars and approximately $10 million of which are granted from donor-advised funds to nonprofit organizations of their choosing around the state, country and world.
SUMMARY
Rose Community Foundation seeks a Health Program Director to develop and implement strategies in grantmaking, initiatives, and partnership-building that advance the Foundation’s Health portfolio goal of supporting accessible information, resources, and systems to improve the health of people and communities. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, skilled executor, and relationship builder with a passion for philanthropy as a tool to advance healthcare, public health and basic needs.
HEALTH
IMPACT AREA
As a health conversion foundation, Rose Community Foundation has long supported organizations and policies that improve health outcomes for Greater Denver communities and reduce health disparities among residents. The Health Program Director oversees discretionary grantmaking, partnership funds, thought leadership, and community engagement approaches to advance the Foundation’s Health priorities:
- Public Health
- Promote community education and outreach around key issues in public health
- Protect and enhance critical public health infrastructure
- Advocate for strategies that reduce and prevent firearm-related injury and death
- Advance access to, and affordability and uptake of, vaccines.
- Health Care Access
- Protect access to health services for populations facing systemic barriers
- Strengthen the stability of the health care safety net for physical and mental health
- Promote affordability of and coverage for health insurance and government programs
- Housing and Food Security
- Support programs and interventions that keep people housed in habitable conditions
- Strengthen the stability and continuity of food security and related safety net programs
- Advance systemic solutions that expand access to affordable housing
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Reporting to the Chief Impact Officer and working collaboratively with the full Community Impact team, especially the Director of Policy and Advocacy, the Health Program Director sets and operationalizes strategic direction for the Health impact area.
Strategic Funding and Nonprofit Support
- Manage grants and relationships within the Health portfolio, proactively sourcing potential grantees and partners and serving as the principal point of contact for Health grantees and prospective applicants.
- Partner with the Grants Management team on the development of grant opportunities, including applications, scoring rubrics, and report forms.
- Review grant proposals and conduct due diligence (including analyzing strategies, budgets, and conducting site visits) to evaluate alignment with funding goals and community needs.
- Develop, support fundraising efforts for grant from, and manage health-related partnership funds and initiatives, including, but not limited to, the Colorado Safe Futures Fund, the Colorado Vaccine Access Fund, and the Colorado Health Care Safety Net Stabilization Fund.
- Direct capacity building, convening and/or educational programming for Health grantees.
Title: Program Director, Health
Company: Rose Community Foundation
Location: Denver, USA
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