Who we are
The California Endowment is a private, statewide health foundation established in 1996 whose mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. We’re changing the narrative around health to ensure health and justice for all. And each day we, along with our community partners, seek ways to improve the state of health in California.
Headquartered in downtown Los Angeles, we have regional offices in Sacramento, Oakland, Fresno and San Diego, with program staff working throughout the state. We challenge the conventional wisdom that medical settings and individual choices are solely responsible for people’s health. Instead, we believe that health happens in neighborhoods, schools and with prevention.
For more information on the Endowment, please visit
www.calendow.org.
Position Summary
Program Managers (PMs) are the primary grant making professionals within the California Endowment. They work collaboratively and cooperatively with other TCE Program Managers and management to ensure that grant making is aligned with the strategic vision, are goal oriented and impact driven. They are responsible for program planning, development, and funding recommendations. They work closely with non-profit and community-based organizations as partners, grantees or potential grantees. Program Managers act as a staff contact and first level spokesperson initiating and sustaining external partnerships with relevant grantees, stakeholders, policy decision makers, and other funders, depending upon the grant making assignment.
Position Accountabilities
Strategy Development & Implementation
- Contributes to/Participates in team-based analysis within regional, statewide, and/or other permanent functional teams and collaborates in teams’ strategy development. May include lead roles in vetting team strategies with other TCE regional, statewide, and permanent functional teams.
- Participates in interdepartmental workgroups and other special purpose teams that strengthen alignment, improve administrative procedures, or advance organizational goals such as Advancing Racial Equity and Team-Based/Trust-Based practices.
- Executes, implements and manages collective impact strategies, evaluation, and documentation of regional and state-wide strategies that impact and advance TCE’s vision of advancing a statewide power-building ecosystem across multiple geographic regions that centers an organizing approach and helps systems move toward health equity and racial justice.
- Supports analysis of long-term implications of strategies for both region and systems.
- Contributes to developing strategies and theories of change in a team setting that align with The Endowment’s broader mission, vision and goals.
- Active participation, informing team-based decision making as a subject matter expert in the system and region and as a holder of grantee/partner relationships. Collective ownership and shared leadership to implement team-based decisions through negotiation with individual grantees/partners. Evaluates all relevant data and potential impact to make timely and sound decisions supporting team-based grant making principles.
Team-Based Grantmaking
- Thought leader on grantmaking. Contributes to team-based strategy development and grantmaking to advance strategic goals for health equity and racial justice and transformational policy and systems change in health systems, schools, justice reinvestment, and inclusive community development.
- Ensures that The California Endowment learns from the work and incorporates learnings into future strategies and grantmaking by working with external partners, evaluators and the community.
- Monitors the performance of grants, coaches and advises grantees, including the negotiation of performance milestones to support grantee partner success. Supports grantees and their networks to develop capacity to create and manage community-led learning and evaluation processes in alignment with community-determined plans.
Partner Engagement & Relationship Building
- Actively engaged with external partners and identifies opportunities to support the development of alliances, networks, and other collaborations. Identifies and initiates systems change opportunities and help connect and strengthen relationships among external partners connected to that work.
- Supports, guides and engages in building narrative capacity of our partners to generate public will and to garner local, regional, and state level support for health equity and systems change.
- Navigates relationships and tensions between constituencies to advance a collective community-driven policy and systems change agenda.
- Manages a growing portfolio of partners that cuts across multiple sectors and TCE’s goals and ensures alignment with the principles of trust-based philanthropy, and integration within a health equity and racial justice framework.
- Effectively represents TCE to a variety of audiences
- May serve as a spokesperson for at least one or more of the following: local, state and national events, media, conferences, forums and meetings.
- Works in partnership with other funders to align strategies to generate momentum for a broader system change agenda. Advocate with public funding sources to integrate health and racial equity into their policies and practices.
- Supports organizations shifting their orientation toward health equity and racial justice. Makes connections and foster relationships across leaders to envision and execute collective work across the portfolio.
Organizational Culture and Influence
- Coordinates internally across teams and departments. Develops and maintain collaborative working relationships with internal leadership and staff. Provides constructive feedback to leadership. Supports team members by creating space to receive constructive feedback to help the organization realize its mission, vision and goals.
- Actively contributes to internal organizational development in alignment with TCE’s Advancing Racial Equity vision and roadmap.
Desired Knowledge, Qualifications, & Skills
- Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and achieve goals.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and implement multiple projects.
- Knowledgable about structural marginalization, systemic racism and their impacts on health equity and wellbeing of Californians today. Ability to incorporate that understanding into team-based strategy development and grantmaking decisions.
- An experienced and active public speaker on health policy advocacy and policy communications on the local, state and/or national level.
- Actively participates in leading internal work groups, community, or statewide projects. Plays a key leadership role in developing and mentoring staff and working as a strategic partner and internal collaborator on TCE initiatives.
- Strong relationship building and political sophistication in building successful partnerships, coalitions and collaborations across internal and external constituents.
- Demonstrated success effecting and communicating policy changes in health policy at the local, state or federal level.
- Understanding of methods of policy, political, and power landscape analysis at local, state, and federal levels, and an ability to apply a racial justice lens to this analysis.
- Content knowledge around key systems, including research and best practices on policy and systems change issues.
- Understanding of learning, measurement, and metrics to assess progress toward shared goals and outcomes, within teams and in partnership with community leaders and community-based organizations.
- Knowledge of approaches for organizational capacity building that support a vibrant power building ecosystem and infrastructure.
- Knowledge of public, private, nonprofit and philanthropic sectors and comfort developing new and innovative partnerships to advance a health equity framework and systems change agenda.
- Strong and effective communication skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with individuals with diverse political views and backgrounds.
- Ability to balance local, state-wide and foundation priorities and needs.
- Demonstrated ability in managing and developing staff to establish and achieve goals and effectively manage and implement multiple projects.
- Demonstrated written and verbal ability to communicate effectively to policy makers, advocates, and public media; ability to make clear and impactful presentations to a range of key audiences and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated conflict resolution experience
Minimum Education & Experience:
- Undergraduate degree required.
- Master’s degree in public health, health policy or other related discipline a plus.
- Five or more experience in a health care or related field, educator, administrator, advocate or funder in the health field is required.
- Experience as a collaborator, facilitator, and/or change maker.
- Relevant experience with concept, development, planning, and implementation of program and/or projects.
- Relevant content knowledge and experience.
- Experience in legal advocacy, urban planning and/or public affairs is also desirable.
Salary Range:
Full Range: $111,220 - $166,830 annual
Target Hiring Range: $111,220 - $139,025 annual
The California Endowment is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and to creating a work environment where the individual is valued and respected. The Endowment welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds and seeks to hire qualified staff reflecting the rich diversity of the communities we serve. We define diversity in broad terms to include race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, geography, and socio-economic status.
For more information about the California Endowment, please visit
www.calendow.org.
