Director of Health Equity

Are you ready to use your leadership skills for good? Are you passionate about empowering underserved communities and making a lasting impact? If so, we have an electrifying opportunity for you!

Our NYC-based client empowers underserved populations through innovative solutions that transcend barriers, promote positive change, and improve lives.

In this role, you will join our client’s team of like-minded changemakers and serve as Principal Investigator (PI) for their NIH-funded project. This project will create an index to help hospitals measure how well they serve monolingual and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) communities. You will be expected to take ownership of the grant and its deliverables, developing cutting-edge solutions to real-world problems that address systemic barriers facing underserved and vulnerable populations.

While our client is headquartered in NYC, this position can be remote within the United States.

Responsibilities:

Process Engineering and Program Management

• Convene the right experts to accelerate thought leadership on language equity in medical settings and move the project forward.
• Manage consultants and vendors.
• Manage all coordination around related events, including invitees/attendees, all vendors/speakers, and agenda management and planning. This may include conferences, fundraising events, and other types of gatherings.
• Entice industry thought leaders involved and attend the gatherings above.
• Maintain pertinent data and analytics to ensure accurate reporting and appropriate service levels.
• Drawing from interdisciplinary perspectives, provide systematic assessment and evaluation of healthcare innovations.

Educational Design

• Design and create executive training programs for hospital executives to learn how to implement the necessary initiative to perform well on the language equity index.
• Design substantial curricula supporting providers to enstate and operate within the quality index criteria.
• Recruit faculty to train on said curricula.
• Build relationships with universities and training programs to teach with our materials.

Business Development

• Strategically ally us with health and language equity leaders for collaboration development initiatives.
• Build and maintain a robust network of pilot study partners, including academic institutions, community-based organizations, and healthcare delivery facilities such as hospital networks and FQHCs to conduct research in real-world settings.
• Recruit early adapters (Influential hospitals, partners who are industry authorities) to form a coalition of institutions adopting this index to run pilots.
• Work closely with marketing to launch communications and work with the press.
• Oversee and create write-ups of studies, white papers, articles, and case studies
• Identify relevant media and submit write-ups for publication.
• Initiate and foster collaborations with community-based organizations, healthcare delivery facilities such as hospital networks and FQHCs, and private-sector partners to implement evaluation protocols and pilot testing initiatives.

Pioneering health equity and language access

• Continuously augment our evidence base and serve as a subject matter expert to disseminate our work through peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, webinars, white papers, and case studies.
• Serve as the spokesperson to disseminate our work publicly.
• Champion the advancement of economic prosperity for diverse communities.

Required Qualifications:

• PhD, MD, or comparable credentials preferred; in some instances, a master’s degree in a pertinent field (e.g., public health, healthcare administration, healthcare economics, health informatics, linguistics) may be considered
• Demonstrable experience serving as a champion for healthcare equity
• Demonstrable experience serving as Principal Investigator or key personnel on funded grants
• Proven track record of success in fostering relationships in an executive healthcare setting
• Strong understanding of healthcare, health tech trends, clinical workflows, and patient engagement ecosystems
• Expertise with the design and implementation of human-subjects research protocols, mastery of quantitative and qualitative data collection methodologies and grant-funded research protocols, familiarity with clinical feasibility studies and implementation science
• Exceptional project management abilities, organizational skills, clear-mindedness and focused discipline for navigating multiple competing priorities, extremely strong oral and written communication competence, and meticulous attention to detail
• Highly resourceful in problem-solving, embracing ambiguity, and pivoting appropriately

Best-in-Class Benefits and Perks:

Our client values their employees’ time and efforts. Their competitive compensation of $100K -$130K annually (commensurate with experience, education, and location) and extensive benefits package, which enhances their commitment to your success, including:

• Comprehensive Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401K with employer contribution (even if the employee does not contribute)
• Flexible working location, remote-friendly (in the U.S.)
• Paid time off and sick days .

Plus, they work to maintain the best possible environment for their employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. They strive to provide a collaborative environment where everyone feels encouraged to contribute to their processes, decisions, planning, and culture.

About our client:

Operating as a venture studio, our client follows a disciplined approach to turning ideas into products and a rigorous process to evaluate their impact. Their product portfolio supports healthcare professionals and K-12 educators in overcoming communication barriers and equity challenges to better serve diverse communities.

One product disseminates personalized messages and leverages the power of tailored rewards to reduce medical appointment no-shows. Another supports language development, early literacy, and home-school connections through an online multilingual education platform where children and adults can read stories together in customized blends of two languages. Another enables health systems to address language barriers and provide the best care for patients with limited English proficiency through cutting-edge products to train, recognize, and support bilingual healthcare professionals. The mobile product is designed for proficiency development and clinical interactions, featuring the most extensive corpus of pre-translated medical phrases ever created: 5,000+ audio-enabled phrases in English and 14 additional languages.

Our client is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace. Our client does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.