Director, Blue Zones Project Operations- Remote

at Sharecare, Inc. in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Job Description:

Sharecare is the leading digital health company that helps people – no matter where they are in their health journey – unify and manage all their health in one place. Our comprehensive and data-driven virtual health platform is designed to help people, providers, employers, health plans, government organizations, and communities optimize individual and population-wide well-being by driving positive behavior change. Driven by our philosophy that we are all together better, at Sharecare, we are committed to supporting each individual through the lens of their personal health and making high-quality care more accessible and affordable for everyone. To learn more, visit?www.sharecare.com.

Be part of a team that’s bringing innovative leaders together from across communities to lead and ignite a movement to improve well-being on a significant scale – a movement that promises to help your friends, family, and neighbors across the country live longer, better.

Blue Zones Project® is a community-led well-being improvement initiative designed to make healthy choices easier through permanent changes to a city’s environment, policy, and social networks. Established in 2010, Blue Zones Project is inspired by Dan Buettner, a National Geographic Fellow and New York Times best-selling author who identified five regions of the world-or Blue Zones®-with the highest concentration of people living to 100 years or older. Blue Zones Project incorporates Buettner’s findings and works with cities to implement policies and programs that will move a community toward optimal health and well-being.

We translate these lessons into sustainable environmental changes that strengthen social ties, reshape the places where people spend their time, and sharpen policies to support healthy choices. By engaging a critical mass of individuals and organizations to participate – from worksites and schools to restaurants and grocery stores – the small changes contribute to huge benefits: lowered healthcare costs, improved productivity, and ultimately, a higher quality of life.

If you are a leader driven to make a difference; If you enjoy interacting with people and are passionate about improving the well-being of others; If you thrive while collaborating with a strong, results-driven team and enjoy challenging yourself and others to find creative solutions, join us!

Job Summary:

The Director, Community Programs for Blue Zones Project will be a driving force behind the implementation of the best practices derived from a decade of experience in more than 50 communities nationally. This position will have operational responsibility for Blue Zones Project on-site programs, delivery of consulting services, and other Blue Zones Project solutions that require account management or an operational component. The Director will be responsible for assigned Blue Zones Project team members and coordination of cross functional teams to ensure programs achieve results.

Essential Functions:

+ Recruits and leads teams to implement permanent changes to environment, policy, social networks, and programs that drive well-being improvement.

+ Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, partners, and key stakeholders to maximize project success, impact and sustainability.

+ Overall accountability for program assessment and planning, including development of a multi-year project Blueprint, implementation, and successful achievement of Blueprint goals and objectives.

+ Ensures completion of training program, ongoing team performance and adherence to project quality standards.

+ Provides effective leadership for diverse staff and volunteers that creates culture of high performance and drives outcomes.

+ Facilitates achievement of program and business goals through effective communication and coaching of teams, and by leveraging relationships with sponsors, partners and other project stakeholders from government, non-profit organizations, civic groups and businesses.

+ Accountable for contract deliverables, operational and financial success of assigned projects.

+ Ensures cross functional teams are effectively utilized to achieve project goals, including business development, project management, marketing, training, and program experts.

+ Monitors and provides regular reports on progress, risks and outcomes.

+ Leads or participates in Center of Excellence and cross function teams to develop and evolve products and operational tools that will drive well-being improvement in communities and organizations.

+ Conducts quality reviews and evaluations for assigned communities to evaluate compliance with program and performance standards.

+ Serve as a subject matter expert for Central and Operations teams for product, community launch (discovery and planning), training, technical assistance, community certification, and other needs.

Qualifications:

+ 7+ years’ experience as a leader in operations, program administration, or management in the healthcare, public or community health field. A blend of for-profit and government or non-profit experience is a plus.

+ Experience managing cross functional/ complex initiatives and multiple stakeholders.

+ Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Political Science, Healthcare, Healthcare Administration or Business required; Master’s degree preferred. Experience in lieu of education also considered.

Specific Skills & Attributes:

+ Ability to build and maintain relationship with Sponsor as well as project stakeholders and partners.

+ Exceptional verbal and written communication skills as evidenced by professional presentations, ability to establish one-on-one rapport, as well as written reports and email communications.

+ Demonstrated project management skills and ability to coordinate efforts across departments and functional teams.

+ Exceptional organizational skills and experience implementing complex projects.

+ Results oriented – understands what results are important and focuses resources to achieve them.

+ Experience managing contracts, ensuring that requirements and performance milestones are achieved.

+ Adept at financial planning and successful budget management.

+ Demonstrated interpersonal relationship skills, with experience leading teams, coaching, training and ongoing development.

+ Inspiring, influencing, collaborative, and responsible.

+ Energized by Blue Zones Project Mission and embodies principles for plant-based, active living, purpose driven, and social connectivity and values.

+ Ability to travel up to 40%

Sharecare and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers and E-Verify users. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, equal pay, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or other status protected under applicable law.

Sharecare is an Equal Opportunity Employer and doesn’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status,or other non-merit factor.