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The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Sr. Social Impact Manager at the American Heart Association!

This position can be home-based.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

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The American Heart Association seeks a skilled, collaborative, and driven Impact Manager to join our Social Impact Fund team. The role will guide, implement, and optimize the Fund’s overarching measurement, evaluation, and learning approaches. This position will be responsible for quantifying the impact and value of the portfolio companies, the work of the Fund itself, analyzing trends, and identifying emerging opportunities to amplify and communicate impact.

This updated position will report to the Managing Director of the Social Impact Fund. In this role, you will develop the vision for learning and impact at a systems level, refine existing Impact Frameworks, and support general grant and impact reporting for relevant business partners. Work across the social drivers of health and focuses impact across three core areas: healthcare access and quality, food security, and economic empowerment. Each pillar would require an impact framework tracking outcomes that speak to broader health equity goals. The manager/director will lead data collection, data analysis and identify key trends on portfolio company performance. Learnings and impact across the portfolio will directly impact future work of the pillars and investment strategy.

The position will work closely with the Social Impact Fund, Ventures, and Mission Advancement staff in addition to portfolio members. A successful applicant will work independently in addition to collaborating with cross-functional teams to initiate, plan, and lead analysis from conceptual development to deliverable for varied business functions. This individual will represent the Fund on both internal and external initiatives.

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of impact investing, strong analytical skills, and a passion for creating meaningful social and environmental change.

Key Responsibilities

• Refine and implement an impact measurement framework that aligns with the Fund’s mission, goals, and investment thesis. The framework should include overarching goals for our theory of change and hone in on actionable impact metrics for each impact pillar
• Lead the development and implementation of a monitoring approach for collecting grantee/investor metrics, including ensuring appropriate indicators and data sources are developed for each grantee, ensuring accuracy of reported data, validating data and assessing data quality at individual grantee and portfolio levels.
• Create the tools and processes to operationalize data collection, analysis and reporting. These processes will build upon previously implemented data collection and collaborate with portfolio companies to set and track specific impact objectives, ensuring they align with broader impact goals and KPIs.
• Lead impact data collection and ensure the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of reported metrics. Independently implement collection tools and software to enhance impact measurement and reporting capabilities.
• Analyze and report on impact performance at the fund and portfolio levels, delivering insights to internal and external stakeholders.
• Prepare impact reports and presentations for investors, board members, and the public to communicate the fund’s social and economic impact. This will include both strong quantitative data visualization in addition to written analysis of general portfolio trends.
• Produce products to organize and visualize data, including slide decks, dashboards, charts, graphs and tables.
• Bringing an equity-focused understanding of learning and evaluation to our team–specifically through understanding of multiple learning approaches and an understanding of how structural racism is present in the evaluation field
• Maintaining a dynamic learning environment for conducting impact and learning including building infrastructure and processes and integrating client and team feedback to support improvements in our project delivery practice and decision making.
• Serve as a expert in impact measurement and collaborate with investment team on prospective investments. This includes assessing their potential to generate measurable impact and their alignment with the fund’s impact objectives.
• Support portfolio companies in developing and refining their impact strategies, offering trainings, and 1:1 guidance on best practices in impact measurement and reporting.
• Research areas of interest, determining outcome areas, general industry trends, and providing cost-benefit analysis estimates on potential for impact based on solutions/areas.
• Educate the investment team and broader organization on evolving impact investing standards, methodologies, and emerging trends. This includes engaging with external networks, industry groups, and partners to stay informed on best practices and innovation in impact evaluation.
• Conduct statistical analysis to assess trends over time against key outcomes in the SIF strategy
• Independently manage issues that may arise on multiple tasks or projects with limited or no management involvement.
• Acts as a resource and/or mentor for other members of the team on community health and evaluation issues and may be responsible for training and guidance of other employees.

At least five (5) years of professional experience that includes:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Public Health, Social Science, Economics, Business) or equivalent work experience
• Experience designing and/or implementing frameworks and tools for measuring impact, including logic models, program rubrics, and theories of change
• Deep understanding and analysis of racial disparities in public systems and the evaluation industry and how those dynamics play out in diverse communities
• Expertise in driving continuous improvement. Demonstrated ability to build and scale the implementation of large-scale organization priorities, including developing strategy, getting buy-in and assessing ongoing process improvement
• Experience in organizational effectiveness, strategy, and/or change management to drive awareness, understanding and amplification of impact
• Deep knowledge of impact measurement methodologies, data analysis, or evaluation with ability to ensure processes are rigorous, relevant and aligned with industry best practices
• Experience creating and implementing successful strategies and plans to engender participation of clients and partners (e.g. community stakeholders, government clients, team members, etc.) in measurement efforts
• Experience providing training or presentations on learning agendas, data collection, and analysis to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to create synthesized and impactful data visualizations across multiple projects for a variety of data sets (qualitative and quantitative) and audiences
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex impact metrics to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working in or with financial services, community development, nonprofit, government, public policy, CDFI and adjacent industries is desired
• Strong project management skills as an individual contributor that leads end to end strategy and implementation
• Collaborative management style that coaches and empowers team members to do their best work

Preferred experience:

• Advanced degree in a relevant field (e.g., Public Health, Social Science, Economics, Business)

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package.  Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

• Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary.  That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
  
  
• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success by merit increases and incentive programs, based on the type of position.  
  
  
• Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution.  As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
  
  
• Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program.  HeartU is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
  
  
• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees.  The number of days will increase based on seniority level.  You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.
  
  
• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees.  This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

The American Heart Association’s 2028 Goal: Building on over 100 years of trusted leadership in cardiovascular and brain health, by 2028 the AHA will drive breakthroughs and implement proven solutions in science, policy, and care for healthier people and communities. The greatest discoveries in health must reach everyone where they are.

At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities. We're committed to ensuring our workforce, workplace culture and mission have a shared impact across a diverse set of backgrounds.

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