Health Fellow; KF

Two Year Term

The Kresge Foundation’s Health Program has an immediate opening for a Health Philanthropy Fellow.

About the foundation

The Kresge Foundation is metro Detroit's largest private, national foundation, with more than $3.6 billion in its endowment, a growing staff of nearly 100 employees and a mission to expand opportunities in America's cities for low-income people. We do this through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services, and community development efforts in Detroit.

The foundation has a state-of-the-art campus located in Troy, which includes an 1850s farmhouse, a LEED-Platinum certified wing and a newly opened expansion that includes a cafeteria and convening center. It also has an office in Midtown Detroit.

The Kresge Foundation offers a competitive total compensation package including health, employer-paid dental, vision, basic life insurance, short and long-term disability, generous paid time off, free breakfast, lunch, and snacks. We also provide robust employee learning and professional development opportunities and tuition reimbursement. We promote and support a healthy and green work environment and encourage intellectual curiosity where we embrace and live out our values of creativity, respect, opportunity, partnership, and stewardship.

About the Kresge Health Program

The Kresge Health program works to achieve equity-focused systems of health through three strategies:

• Accelerate the Integration of Health and Human Services - We will invest in innovative in Health and Human Services providers to work across sectors to create more seamless, effective, and sustainable interventions that impact the well-being of people and the communities they serve.
• Leverage Institutional Investment for Community Health – We will work to influence local and regional institutions to align their financial and human capital investments to build healthy, prosperous communities and equitable, sustainable economies.
• Support Community-Driven Solutions for Health – We will drive locally determined solutions that influence policies, systems, services, and practices to create equitable conditions and improve well-being.

In all of our work, we look for efforts that:

• Include and build genuine community engagement and leadership.
• Facilitate cross-sector partnerships and connections.
• Develop innovative policy solutions.
• Direct resources to upstream strategies.
• Promote access to opportunities that can improve health.
• Employ effective communication strategies.
• Evaluate and disseminate the impact of health initiatives, programs and investments.

This is an exciting time for health philanthropy. Many of the basic health protections and resources that Americans have relied on are under threat. At the same time, policy makers, institutions and others are seeking new solutions and models that can generate better outcomes and reduce health care costs. The Kresge Health Program aims to play a vital role in both safeguarding essential resources for health, while fostering innovation that can improve opportunities for health in low-income communities.

About the position

The Kresge Foundation is recruiting a Health Philanthropy Fellow to support the Health Program in implementing its mission to create equity-focused systems of health. The Fellow will gain experience and insight into institutional philanthropy, health policy and advocacy, community development, and strategies to improve the health of historically disadvantaged or disenfranchised communities. This position both provides a valuable career development opportunity for emerging public health professionals, as well as added capacity to enable the Health program to fulfill its ambitious vision.

This fellowship will be a two-year appointment and is open to those who have completed Master’s level training in public health. We are also interested in candidates who have completed joint degrees involving public health with urban planning, public administration, public policy, health administration, social work and/or environmental science.

Primary responsibilities of the fellow position include:

• Lead at least one priority…