Senior Vice President of Development & Community Health

About the role

This multi-market Senior Vice President (SVP) of Development & Community Health role leads designated markets across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. The SVP is a member of the Southwest Region Senior Management Team, accountable for revenue generation and community health impact activities throughout the assigned territory, and lives in Texas. The position oversees approximately 35–45 staff members and many volunteers while executing mission-centered fundraising campaigns for health priorities, with a revenue goal of approximately $20–$25 million. This is a hybrid position with approximately 70% travel within the designated territory.

Responsibilities

• Assumes bottom-line responsibility for territory goals within assigned markets.
• Leads, inspires, guides, coaches, trains, and manages staff to provide targeted, proactive, and effective support for aggressive revenue generation and sponsorship activities.
• Works closely with Executive Directors and Boards of Directors to create strategy and vision to achieve goals and Community Impact KPIs.
• Cultivates effective relationships with donors, supporters, and volunteers by linking the mission to fundraising.
• Provides work plans to metro division offices that include campaign, communications, health impact, and volunteer recruitment goals.
• Actively partners and develops relationships with leadership volunteers, including corporate and community leaders, to ensure they are knowledgeable, engaged, and committed to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association and its priorities across revenue and health goals.
• Secures sponsorships and builds a compelling case to garner donor support by linking mission activities to fundraising.
• Analyzes and monitors campaign progress, communications, and community health, and develops strategies for closing gaps.
• Monitors financial activities, including income, expenditure, and annual budget.
• Promotes positive collaboration cross-functionally.
• Serves as a liaison and communications linchpin between field staff, regional staff, and the Association’s National Center staff.
• Ensures strategies are implemented to manage key relationships.
• Serves as a member of the Senior Management Team reporting to the SW Associate Executive Vice President, working independently to service the mission through all aspects of the SW Region’s work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Minimum eight (8) years’ work experience in fundraising or outside sales, preferably with a voluntary health agency, with at least three (3) of those years in a mid-to-upper-level executive capacity preferred.
• Minimum seven (7) years of management/leadership experience.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills, including large and small group presentations, group facilitation, persuasion, and negotiation.
• Ability to read, understand, and analyze financial data, numbers, charts, and graphs.
• Corporate event leadership experience with a national not-for-profit is preferred.
• Experience leading mid-level managers and front-line supervisors is preferred.
• Ability to train, manage, guide, and motivate staff and volunteers to achieve objectives.
• Ability to set and achieve ambitious goals with volunteers and staff.
• Ability to plan and work independently.
• Outstanding organizational, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite.
• Must have the ability to attend meetings and travel throughout the territory 70% of the time, including overnight travel and occasional evenings and weekends.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Robust retirement program with employer match and automatic contribution.
• Employee assistance program, employee wellness program, telemedicine, and medical consultation.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees; increases with seniority.
• Twelve paid holidays off each year, including several days off at year-end.
• Tuition assistance for career-related education.
• Access to Heart U, the Association’s national online university with more than 100,000 resources.
• Eligibility for annual salary planning, incentive programs, and recognition awards.
• Opportunities to join Employee Resource Groups or participate in professional mentoring programs.