The Manager of Health Impact is responsible for the promotion of health & wellness initiatives throughout the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas service area, with a specific focus on Southern Dallas in alignment with UWMD's Southern Dallas Thrives initiative. This unique position will work closely in collaboration with both the Health & Wellness and the Southern Dallas Thrives initiatives and teams. Core primary focuses related to this role are to increase community level awareness of health navigation services, promote access to resources for targeted high vulnerability areas, and develop strategies for expanded health impact. The manager is involved with United Way's health programs throughout the year and may play a vital leadership role in Southern Dallas Thrives & Health Impact related events, meetings, and coalitions as needed. This position also produces the monthly health access newsletter, serves on subcommittees that support both Health Impact & Southern Dallas Thrives, leads collaboration efforts across our targeted service areas, and administers/implements current and future programming to drive measurable impact.
To perform the job successfully, competitive applicants should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Mission-Focused: Create social change that leads to improving lives in our community.
- Relationship-Oriented: Able to communicate effectively to develop, grow, and sustain productive relationships. Knows how to capture and record relevant information and how to interpret and utilize the information to forge partnerships, collaborate, cultivate, grow, sustain, and strengthen internal and external relationships.
- Purposeful: Dedicated to shared and measurable goals; creating, resourcing, scaling, and leveraging strategies and innovations for broad impact.
- Stewards: Our actions, behaviors, and decisions on behalf of our donors must be transparent, meet the highest ethical standards, and align with organizational goals.
The Manager of Health Impact serves as a critical member of the Community Impact Department. The position works closely with the Vice President of Health & Wellness and the Vice President of Southern Dallas Thrives Initiative to administer and implement current and future programming and products to drive measurable impact aligned with United Way of Metropolitan Dallas pillars of Education, Income, and Health.
The ideal candidate will have strong abilities in the following areas:
- Social perceptiveness
- Complex problem solving
- Systems analysis and evaluation
- Judgment and decision making
- Administration and management of multifaceted projects
The ideal candidate must be a solution-focused self-starter who can manage large-scale program operations, and conceptualize, develop, and implement plans for programming execution that yield impactful outcomes.
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas is fully committed in all aspects of our work to becoming a fully inclusive, multicultural, antiracist organization. Those who share in this commitment and who are willing to actively engage antiracist ideas, behaviors, and actions are invited to apply for open positions.
EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree required; degree in Urban Planning, Non-profit Management, Public Administration, Business Administration, Communications, or related fields preferred. May be substituted for extended effective non-profit management experience.
EXPERIENCE: A minimum of 4 years of non-profit work experience required. A Master's degree may substitute for two years of experience. Background in program development and management, business administration, and/or non-profit management strongly desired.
SKILLS:
- Excellent verbal and written communication, with high-level presentation skills.
- Excellent project management, organizational, and administrative skills required.
- Ability to multi-task, maintain focus, self-starting, and ability to meet strict deadlines in a demanding environment.
- Adept at building relationships, with the ability to maintain confidentiality of donors and other sensitive information.
- Aptitude for high-level data, successful in tracking and reporting on outcomes.
- Strong critical thinking skills, inclusive of meticulous analytical skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, especially with people of diverse backgrounds.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to complete tasks within a defined timeline.
- Versed in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other applicable computer programming.
- Must be initiative-taking and flexible.
- Ability to work as part of a team, independently, and with minimal supervision and oversight.
