Executive Director

Idaho Coalition for Safe Healthcare

Job Description

 

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The Idaho Coalition for Safe Healthcare (ICSH) is recently formed, non-profit organization consisting of a group of public-health minded, patient-focused physicians and providers who seek to partner with legislators, legal organizations, and health care provider advocacy groups to educate the public about the true harms of Idaho’s recent reproductive health care laws to patients, and the moral injury to healthcare workers that have resulted from these laws.

ICSH seeks its first Executive Director to help develop and oversee the operations of this coalition. This unique opportunity will allow a motivated self-starter to cultivate and expand a grassroots coalition that will work in the public policy arena to protect healthcare consumers and recipients from harm, protect clinicians from risks of criminalization, protect the doctor-patient relationship, and support healthcare recruitment and retention.

Responsibilities

  • Day-to-day operations of the coalition, including board leadership, meeting and agenda development and communications, community and provider education and communications, media engagement, advertising, fundraising, membership and other routine responsibilities as would be expected.
  • Develops and implements strategies, budgets and action plans in alignment with the organization’s mission. Collaborates with the board of directors to identify, create and implement strategic plans toward organizational objectives. Responsible for working collaboratively to implement advocacy strategy and represent the ICSH externally.
  • Provides guidance on ICSH’s policy positions and legislative strategy. Responsible for timely analysis of legislation and regulations and for sharing out findings and recommendations in alignment with the coalition’s mission and aims. Responsible for leading efforts to develop medical practice resources and educational programming for association and community members.
  • Develops and builds mobile, nimble networks of leaders, stakeholders, advocates and supporters. Develops and maintains partnerships with stakeholders, board members, industry regulators and other relevant parties. Represents the coalition on external workgroups and committees as appropriate.
  • Identifies donors, organizes and manages fundraising efforts.
  • Develops, manages and maintains the organization’s budget; ensures tax compliance. Monitors operations and ensures employees and organizational practices comply with regulatory and legal requirements.
  • Identifies, recruits, trains, develops and supervises mission-aligned employees and volunteers.

Position Requirements

  • Entrepreneurial energy and vision, out-of-the-box strategic thinking, success-driven. Ability to organize and deploy work and groups of people quickly and efficiently. Ability to envision and design processes in support of a distributed, networked organization of stakeholders over a broad, largely rural topography.
  • Well-organized, motivated individual with highly honed networking and communication skills. Public speaking, media appearances and public-facing commentary will be expected. Experience with developing issue briefs, grant writing and similar documentation is appropriate.
  • Degree in relevant field from an accredited professional school required; degrees in organizational development, business administration, public health, corporate communications and the like are appropriate.
  • At least five years of experience in a similar nonprofit or coalition position with at least five years of experience managing projects in a professional environment.
  • Applied experience with legislative and/or regulatory advocacy or lobbying.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Willingness to travel:

  • 25% (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote

 
 

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