American Heart Association · 1 day ago
Sr. Program Lead, Strategic Initiatives
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$100K/yr - $115K/yr
5+ years expThe American Heart Association is seeking a dynamic Senior Program Lead, Strategic Initiatives, to join their Integrated Care Initiatives team. This role involves leading the implementation of the Heart Valve Initiative, collaborating with various departments, and driving strategic plans to ensure sustainable public health impact.
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Responsibilities
Lead the cross-functional development of strategic plans and implementation and serve as a senior subject matter authority to facilitate the Heart Valve Initiative integration across the enterprise
Drive measurable progress across Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), ensuring the Initiative strategies resonate with target audiences and achieve sustainable public health impact
Collaborate with a variety of the American Heart Association departments such as Science, Quality Improvement, Patient Solutions, Evaluation, Marketing and Communications, and Corporate Relations to drive end-to-end solutions related to the portfolio and KPIs
Identify and engage key national strategic alliance partners to achieve new business and volunteer relationships to advance opportunities for multi-layered collaborations, revenue generation, patient voice, and volunteer leadership. In addition, nurture, improve or maintain relationships to achieve scale/sustainability of the portfolio's public health programming. Participate in ongoing relationship management and guide tracking and evaluation
Guide the development of resources in collaboration with other teams to support the Initiative’s goals including a patient awareness campaign and health care professional education
Analyzes and evaluates effectiveness and customer engagement with the Initiative’s assets and strategic objectives. Provides recommendations for programmatic development, evaluation and improvement
Develops and maintains collaborative working relationships with the Association staff, volunteers, sponsors, patients, and partners throughout. In collaboration with the team VP, identifies and establishes Initiative teams to address all aspects of the initiative, success measures and analysis of market response and reach
Lead all aspects of the Initiative’s operations such as event support, conference engagement, impact reporting, survey development, and data analysis
Analyzes market trends and business relationships to align with assigned Initiative. Supports the development and execution of the Initiative business plan, reporting on progress and outcomes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or Equivalent work experience in Health Promotion, Public Health, Human Resources, Marketing, Business, Communications
Five (5) years validated experience in business development or account management. 7 years of experience is preferred
Experience in program development, planning and management
Experience in public health or non-profit services
Comprehensive experience building business cases, analyzing market trends and identifying creative business opportunities
Ability to influence leadership without direct authority
Ability to communicate and present ideas across diverse audiences
Preferred
Knowledge of health organizations and community-based standard processes for engaging community-based organizations
Experience with market/consumer research, analytics and reporting
Proven ability to simultaneously lead multiple, complex projects and events in varying stages of development under time constraints to ensure deadline compliance
Proven understanding and appreciation for the use of technology and information systems
Proven critical thinking skills in assessing needs and available resources to efficiently implement new and existing programs
Self-motivated, highly effective organizational and analytical skills, communication, negotiation, and social skills
Validated ability to efficiently participate in or facilitate meetings with internal and external clients including interacting with external partners/sponsors representing the Association to the public as vital
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Disability
Life insurance
Robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution
Employee assistance program
Employee wellness program
Telemedicine
Medical consultation
Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year
12 paid holidays off each year
Tuition Assistance
Company
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary health organization.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
American Heart Association has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (5)
2024 (1)
2023 (4)
2022 (3)
2021 (2)
2020 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$4.62MKey Investors
Stupski FoundationAmeriCorps Public AlliesCity Furniture
2025-08-14Grant· $0.1M
2024-07-09Grant· $2.7M
2024-06-06Grant· $0.69M
Leadership Team
Jennifer Hall
Chief, Data Science and Analytics
Lynne Braggs
National, Sr. Director Digital Content Production, Creative (Marketing)
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