About St. David's Foundation
St. David's Foundation is one of the largest health foundations in the United States, funding over $100 million annually in a five-county area surrounding Austin, Texas. Through a unique partnership with St. David's HealthCare, we strategically reinvest proceeds from the hospital system back into the community, with the goal of advancing health equity and improving the health and well-being of our most underserved Central Texas neighbors.
This new Program Officer will be joining at a pivotal and transformative time for the Foundation, as we have recently launched our strategic plan Pathways to Health Equity: Addressing Needs Today and Building a Healthier Tomorrow. This plan reflects the Foundation's evolving understanding of health over three decades of work. Our view of health has broadened its focus from healthcare to the more expansive mission of advancing health equity. Through investments and action, we are committed to centering health equity so that all Central Texans have a fair chance to achieve optimal health with no avoidable, unjust, or systematically caused differences in health status due to ethnicity, race, age, ability, or geography.
Job Purpose
The Program Officer helps envision and manages bodies of work to ensure effective, collaborative, and community-driven implementation of the Foundation's strategic plan. The Program Officer will join the Foundation's Community Investments team, which works collectively to improve the health and well-being of our Central Texas neighbors through grantmaking efforts.
St. David's Foundation is announcing two openings, and this position is expected to work across the Foundation's community impact goal areas: access to care, economic stability, and community driven change.
- Position Two's Foundation goal area of Economic Stability. We encourage candidates with background in understanding and developing strategies to advance economic stability to apply. In addition to the general skills and competencies for the Program Officer role listed below, our ideal candidate will have:
- A solid understanding of the social safety net in Central Texas and the organizations that it consists of
- Experience developing strategies and implementing practices to address systemic barriers to economic prosperity
- Background in innovative practices to develop career paths, build assets, or increase access to affordable housing
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of five years of programmatic experience within a nonprofit, philanthropic, public, or private sector organization working to serve the community.
- Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Social Work, Public Administration/Affairs, Healthcare Administration, Nursing, Business, or related field with relevant experience.
- Lived and/or professional experience related to the core functions of this position.
- Strong project management skills, including experience managing multiple priorities, organizing and prioritizing tasks, managing time efficiently, meeting deadlines, working independently and collaborating with colleagues.
- Experience communicating to various audiences, including making small group and public presentations, and producing clear and compelling written documents. Experience with storytelling, including the ability to share the story of the Foundation's work and partners' work in ways that speak to various audiences, while making sure the humanity of the work shines through.
- Demonstrated and nuanced understanding of the systems and structures that influence community health and well-being.
- Creative and effective thinking, including experience holding large amounts of information about context and trends in a topic area, or for priority communities, or for a large geographic region, and experience drawing on that knowledge base to make connections and offer ideas about how to improve work.
- Understanding of mission-oriented and nonprofit organizations, including the ability to analyze organizational strategic plans, evaluation reports, financial statements and organizational budgets associated with grant applications.
- Experience building relationships with and working in collaboration with a range of partners to advance health equity.
- A commitment to supporting and uplifting the expertise of priority communities and addressing structural bias.
- Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Willingness and ability to travel, on occasion, to multiple locations within Central Texas.
Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience developing programmatic experience within a nonprofit, philanthropic, public, or private sector organization working to serve the community.
- Advanced degree in Public Health, Social Work, Public Administration/Affairs, Healthcare Administration, Business, Public Policy, Urban Planning, or related field.
- Bilingual in English and Spanish.
Please see job description for more details. Please include cover letter upon application.
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