Vice President of Programs

Job Description

Job Description

The National Kidney Foundation of Illinois improves the health and well-being of people at risk for or affected by kidney disease through prevention, education, and empowerment.

Position Description

The Vice President, Programs for NKFI is responsible for overseeing programs and services, employing best practices, ensuring compliance, and providing management, coaching and professional development to the program team. Seeking a leader who is skilled in making systemic community change and leading diverse teams. Position serves as a member of Leadership Team. The VP of Programs reports to the CEO of NKFI.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Program Management

•  Provide oversight to key program areas, including: KidneyMobile Screening Program, NKFI Professional Programs, NKFI Patient Programs and NKFI Research Initiatives.

•  Manage direct reports including Sr. KidneyMobile Manager, Sr. Manager Professional Programs, Project Manager of Patient Programs. Assure contract staff and consultant/vendor relationships comply with agreements and meet deliverables.

•  Partner with Leadership Team (CEO, CFO) to ensure compliance with ethical and legal program standards, as well as regulatory requirements involved in the provision of designated programs and services.

•  Works in tandem with the NKFI Board Committees including Programs, Professional Advisory Board (PAB) and the Research Committee, a subcommittee of the PAB, to evaluate NKFI programs and funded research to develop long-term goals and objectives to ensure NKFI programs and research are successful and impactful.

•  Work with Management Team to represent on, and ensure other managers are serving on, collaboratives and coalitions.

•  Leads Program Quality initiatives, and guides Program’s team with service delivery to maximize the organization’s impact with available resources while ensuring efficiency. This includes oversight of program development and strategy, program and participant evaluations, scopes of work, year-end statistics and impacts, and preparing for required program and financial audits, compliance, data quality assurance systems and continuous improvement, records retention, and database management.

•  Ensure the delivery of qualitative and quantitative goals and outcomes of programs.

•  Uphold participant rights and responsibilities and manage risk across the programs. Ensure consistency with assessments, kidney disease screening protocols and other policies and procedures.

•  Utilize Programs Databases and NKFI CRM Databases, partner with directors and manager data leads to produce reports that will inform data-driven decisions; develop and utilize data and workflows to understand the efficacy of programs and inform program and organization decisions.

 

Financial and Fund Development

•  In partnership with the Finance Dept and Leadership, budget and monitor programmatic operations to ensure sound fiscal and system management. Work with program managers to manage total programs budget based upon the approval of the Board of Directors

•  Oversee the coordination, writing, and administration of program-related grants, ensuring deliverables, reporting, and budget meet contract and funder requirements across all funding streams.

•  For grants that received funding, work in partnership with the Development Team and Leadership to ensure program impacts are visionary, transparent, and available to be shared with the donor community on an ongoing basis.

•  Provide Development Director and team ongoing with strong program impact stories for donor/funding organization.

 

Management Team

•  Actively participate in Leadership Team with CEO and CFO to guide the Strategic and Operational Action Plans.

•  Partner with CEO to advocate for policy change; research and manage emerging needs of community and key stakeholders, including participants and community partners.

•  Serve on Management Team to ensure organizational goals, budget targets, risk and database management, and performance measures are achieved.

•  Support the Compliance Officer and ensure continuous management of NKFI HIPAA Policy Training and other related program policies and procedures.

•  Work in partnership with Leadership to build and sustain quality programs with diversified funding streams. Explore new funding streams and collaborate with CEO and NKFI team to pursue new program ideas. Partner with staff and management of The National Kidney Foundation to engage, support and advance the mission of NKFI.

•  Present at Board of Directors meetings on quarterly basis or as requested. Active participant as part of the Leadership Team in strategic and operational planning cycles.

•  Perform HR functions including collaborative hiring, performance coaching and management, and goal setting.

•  Work in partnership with management team to identify staff training and development needs; collaborate with management team to engage guest speakers as appropriate to provide specialized training.

•  Be a strong ambassador for the agency including knowing and adhering to the agency’s mission, values, and programs; participate in external networks that strengthen collaborations; assisting with facility tours and fundraising efforts; soliciting program participants; and engaging volunteers and donors.

•  Additional duties as assigned. Qualifications: Required Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree required in social work, human services, business/public administration, public policy, public health, or a related field., Master’s Degree Preferred • Minimum of 10 years of program management experience working with diverse populations.

 

Qualifications

•  Bachelor’s Degree required, with a degree in Public Health, Health Education or similar background strongly preferred

•  10+ years of experience of managing health-based community outreach programs

•  Willingness and desire to evaluate existing programs and develop and execute new initiatives

•  Proven and effective management of personnel

•  Strong verbal and written communication skills; must be comfortable and able to present in front of large groups

•  Ability to interface with all levels of Board, staff and volunteers

•  Ability to work and make sound decisions independently and take initiative to work with a team

•  Ability to manage multiple tasks, detail-oriented and able to meet deadlines

•  Proficient in building and maintaining strong relationships, demonstrating initiative and taking responsibility

•  Proficient in Microsoft Office, experience with Access database software a plus

 

Education

Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited four-year college or university in social work, public health, health care administration, or public policy. Master’s degree preferred.

 

Reporting Relationship

This position reports to the CEO

NKFI provides equal opportunities to all qualified applicants and staff members in every phase of employment without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital or parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability (except where the individual cannot perform the essential job functions despite reasonable accommodation), sexual preference, military discharge, source of income, or housing status.

Company Description

The National Kidney Foundation of Illinois improves the health and well-being of people at risk for or affected by kidney disease through prevention, education and empowerment.

Company Description

The National Kidney Foundation of Illinois improves the health and well-being of people at risk for or affected by kidney disease through prevention, education and empowerment.