Region Senior Director, Strategic Relationships

As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact! Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.

We are hiring for a Senior Director, Strategic Relationships, reporting to the Senior Vice President, Executive/Business Operations in the SouthWest (SW) region.

In this position, you will be responsible for growing and driving the volunteer leadership and relationships within the region. You will be responsible for collaborating with the region and market leadership to engage and deepen strategic relationships and growing a robust volunteer development process. Working alongside the EVP, Associate EVP, and other region leadership to plan and carry out the region board meetings, lead volunteer committees, handle logistics of the meetings, and ongoing engagement of the volunteers as well as the local board meeting coordination.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

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The job application window is expected to close September 13, 2024.

Here are some of the job duties:

• Collaborate with Southwest (SW) leadership to devise strategies and find opportunities for developing volunteer talent within the region. This effort supports the organization’s mission and fundraising goals. As a resource and leader, you’ll be responsible for volunteer relationships across field campaigns.

• Engage with the regional Board volunteer leadership, handling tasks such as meeting content development, logistics, meaningful communication, and board member engagement between meetings. This includes coordinating with the nomination committee and ensuring effective volunteer development.
• Collaborate with SW leadership to establish a volunteer pipeline for national, regional, and local boards and committees. Ensure that major employers are involved in this growth process. Identify key volunteers and build engagement plans and career paths to align them with the organization—from local to national levels.
• Work with local, regional, and national leadership to design volunteer development and engagement plans that foster closer connections between volunteers and the organization.
• Implement a feedback process to regularly capture input from critical volunteers, informing volunteer communication strategies.
• Lead the development of consistent and approved local board meetings for our local boards. This ensures quality and engagement at the local level while maintaining a unified voice across volunteer levels within the region.
• Additionally, assist with other duties and projects as needed.

Want to move your resume to the top so that you can become a “Relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives?” Here are some of the requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5 years successful experience in non-profit fundraising, volunteer management or similar experience.
• 3 years of managerial experience ideally with a sales team or fundraising team in a similar organization.
• Proven strength building and leveraging relationships at all levels both internally and externally.
• Proven record of initiative and working in a nebulous environment (gray space).
• Solid understanding of how to engage and work with high-level volunteers and donors.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build and lead project teams.
• Ability to work well with diverse groups of people around the organization, including senior executives.
• Ability to present ideas and concepts live or via multimedia in a clear and compelling manner.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Ability to travel up to 20% local and overnight stay.

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package.  Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

• Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary.  That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
  
  
• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success by merit increases and incentive programs, based on the type of position.
  
  
• Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution.  As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
  
  
• Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program.  HeartU is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
  
  
• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees.  The number of days will increase based on seniority level.  You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.
  
  
• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees.  This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

The American Heart Association’s 2024 Goal: Every person deserves the opportunity for a full, healthy life. As champions for health equity, by 2024, the American Heart Association will advance cardiovascular health for all, including identifying and removing barriers to health care access and quality.

At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities. We're committed to ensuring our workforce, workplace culture and mission have a shared impact across a diverse set of backgrounds.

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