Sr Community Health Program Leader

Overview

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago provides superior pediatric care in a setting that offers the latest benefits and innovations in medical technology, research and family-friendly design. As the largest pediatric provider in the region with a 140-year legacy of excellence, kids and their families are at the center of all we do. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is ranked in all 10 specialties by the U.S. News & World Report.

680 Lake Shore Drive

This position serves in a senior leadership role in the Center for Childhood Resilience. The Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR) is a program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. This Senior Program Leader position leads programmatic, project and strategic leadership to CCR including plans, coordinates, communicates and evaluates systems and processes that enhance and further CCR.

Builds and maintains strong, collaborative working relationships within Lurie Children’s and with external parties. The position actively supports the CCR team, Department and Hospital efforts to achieve continuous quality improvement, customer service goals through modeling of appropriate behavior and by providing a work environment conducive to attaining these goals.

• Leads functional area including strategic direction, innovation and investigation goals, and coordination across other areas and programs to maximize effectiveness, resources, knowledge sharing and alignment.
• Responsible to develop and lead new and existing partnerships in alignment with strategic priorities.
• Ensures that functional area and programs have a clear plan for investigation or quality improvement that demonstrate the impact of the work and identifies areas for improvement. Leads efforts to develop new areas of work and funding, including working with Operations to create proposals and budgets that provide adequate support for functional and program goals and in alignment with strategic priorities.
• Responsible to secure continued and new external funding to sustain and advance the work of CCR and functional area. Including philanthropic, government, and state grants and proposals in collaboration with partners within and outside of Lurie Children’s; ensure goals, objectives and reporting requirements are met; support relationship management of funders, potential funders and strategic partners.
• Responsible for staffing, recruitment and hiring for functional area including recruitment and hiring in alignment with funding and budgets. Responsible for the onboarding and training of new team members in collaboration with other functional area and program leaders. Participates in performance reviews of team members.
• Responsible for key external and internal partnerships and relationships with focus on those that have high potential for impact, represent new growth opportunities and enhance the reputation of CCR at local, regional and national levels.
• Promotes evidence-based practices through training and delivering supported implementation/technical assistance on clinical mental health interventions. This includes collaboration with national experts to complete certified trainer credentialing and disseminate interventions, supported implementation and research and evaluation efforts.
• Responsible for innovation, investigation and evaluation of program efforts and achievement of scholarly activities including publishing and presenting at local, regional, and national conferences, focusing on identifying school mental health projects that have high potential for contributing to the research literature and for raising the visibility of CCR, Department and Hospital.
• Represents CCR and Lurie Children’s in public spaces, including acting as a content expert regarding matters of child and adolescent behavioral and mental matters, and by responding to media requests.
• Contributes to CCR and Hospital advocacy mission through participation in local, state, and national stakeholder and advocacy boards related to mental health services and the impact of trauma…