Program Director, Health

Program Director, Health

Estimated start date: December 13th, 2024

Location: Remote in California or Arizona strongly preferred.

Deadline: Rolling review

Job type: Full time

Compensation: Commensurate with experience;

Starting between $100,000 – $120,000

We are seeking an incredibly organized and process-oriented strategic leader to drive our growing and dynamic Health Program. You will be joining a small but driven and collaborative team leading the operations of our work with multiple institutional partners and customers such as community health centers (FQHCs), universities, government agencies, and other organizations. You will work closely with and report to the Executive Director. This is a full-time senior leadership position.

Who you are:

• Thrives on developing and improving operational processes and systems to facilitate mission-driven programmatic work.
• Extremely detail-oriented while simultaneously skilled at holding the big picture of where partnerships and programs are rapidly growing.
• Can lead and nurture multi-year relationships and organizational scaling projects and partnerships with multiple partners at the same time with autonomy and initiative.
• A skilled people manager and collaborative leader who truly believes that employing a compassionate lens is a strength for managers, leaders, and organizations.
• An experienced program director who enjoys and is skilled in collaboratively developing project and grant implementation plans, including goals, milestones, activities, staffing and budget, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Ability to work directly and collaborate with content authors and skilled facilitators of compassion training in addition to marketing teams sharing program/partner content.
• Ability to maintain and improve existing operational workflows and processes
• Experience building and sustaining deeply-aligned community partnerships.
• A deep commitment to equity, racial justice, and multiculturalism especially in relation to healthcare.
• Excels in program and organizational leadership, including financial operations in the context of running complex programs with fee-for-service, fundraising, contracting, and grants funding streams.
• Tech savvy and enjoys exploring efficiencies and solutions to keep operations running smoothly as the program grows and evolves.
• Thrives in a remote work culture with travel to partner sites, conferences, and headquarters. Is able to develop strong working relationships through video meetings and collaborative work tools such as Slack, Clickup, and G-Suite.

About Compassion Institute (CI)

Founded in 2017, the mission of Compassion Institute (CI) is to advance compassion as a guiding principle and active force to create a more caring world. As a leader in compassion training and advocacy, we develop and deliver evidence-based programs for individuals, institutions, and communities that help promote personal and societal well-being.

We are committed to three strategic initiatives:

• Bringing compassion-based interventions to key sectors of society
• Disseminating the Institute’s flagship program CCT™ (Compassion Cultivation Training©) — an 8-week course developed at Stanford University
• Promoting broader public awareness of the importance of compassion and its cultivation

CCT™ was first developed in 2009 at Stanford University by Dr. Thupten Jinpa with contributions from three well known experts in the integration of contemporary psychology and meditation. CCT™ blends traditional Tibetan Buddhist compassion cultivation exercises with insights from neuroscience, psychology, mindfulness, and group therapy protocols to produce a modern secular compassion training program with broad applicability and efficacy.

While CCT™ and certain derivative programs are offered to the public, additional programs rooted in CCT™ and specified derivatives address the particular needs of professionals that serve the public under challenging circumstances in the keystone professions of healthcare & public health, law enforcement & public safety, and education. As global experts in compassion-based interventions, CI offers secular compassion-focused programs and offerings based on the latest psychology, neurology, and contemplative science designed to impart the evidence-based power of compassion to transform the world at the levels of the individual and society.

For more information, please visit www.compassioninstitute.com. For more information about the health program, please visit www.compassioninstitute.com/health.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead operations and business administrative functions across the Health Program with a current focus on scaling projects with multiple long-term institutional partners. Ensure projects and offerings are running smoothly from start to finish.
• Provide direct supervision to the full-time Program Manager, Health and the Research Evaluation and Learning consultant. This position works collaboratively with the Content Lead, Health consultant who provides expert leadership direction in compassion cultivation content, facilitation, and health care services. This position will work collaboratively with and may provide indirect supervision to other CI team members across the organization.
• Maintain and improve standard operating procedures and related documentation with a focus on continuous quality improvement.
• Develop, track, and report on contracts, agreements, work orders, and program deliverables for existing and new institutional partners and clients.
• Ensure strong collaboration with existing partners and contractors on operational matters.
• Lead the development, tracking, and reporting on program budgets, including reviewing and monitoring both incoming and outgoing invoices related to the program. Develop projections and board reports throughout the year.
• Drive new business cultivation and contracting in close collaboration with the Executive Director. Lead strategy for increasing visibility and understanding of the positive benefits of compassion-based training and development for the well-being of health sector providers and organizations, with a focus on FQHCs, public health departments, and emerging health professionals. This includes exhibiting at multiple national conferences annually
• Report to and work closely with the Executive Director in service of the mission and programs. This will include supporting fundraising and marketing efforts.
• Model compassionate leadership and behaviors in all work and interactions.
• Responsibilities may evolve as needed.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree. Minimum of 5 years of full-time work in similar roles.
• Experience managing the operations of complex programs and leading teams within an organizational setting, including those funded by external donors.
• Experience in grant writing and reporting.
• Experience leading large long-term institution-to-institution partnerships and scaling projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience developing and giving written reports and presentations to a variety of audiences such as board members, donors/grantors, internal senior leadership, and/or external customers who come from diverse backgrounds and professional levels.
• Excellent technology skills, including significant understanding of Google and Microsoft products as well as Zoom and project management systems. Comfortable trouble-shooting and resolving basic computer hardware and software problems.
• Basic science literacy.
• Strong affinity with the mission of Compassion Institute.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Masters Degree in business administration, public administration, health administration, social work (macro), or related.
• Experience leading program operations in non-profit organizations and state or federal government departments.
• Experience working in and leading teams and projects in a remote work environment.
• Experience in a related field such as healthcare, public health, or other social service professions.
• Experience in leadership, professional, and/or organizational development, particularly in terms of professional well-being, burnout, or compassion.
• Experience and creativity in terms of event planning and implementation.
• Experience with and skilled in using Clickup and online learning management systems.
• Experience with meditation, compassion practice and other contemplative wellbeing practices.
• Written and verbal fluency in Spanish, French, or other languages.

Additional Information:

• The Program Director will report to the Executive Director.
• At this time, we are only able to hire candidates with work authorization in the US and will prioritize applicants who will work remotely in California and Arizona.
• This is an exempt position.
• CI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, age, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees.

How to Apply:

Please submit your resume and cover letter at https://www.compassioninstitute.com/careers/ for immediate consideration.

We are only able to respond to applications that have been shortlisted. Thank you for your understanding.