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Job Summary:

The President of the Floyd Polk Healthcare Foundation will have an inspiring challenge: Advance the legacy of service long characteristic of Floyd Medical Center and capitalize on the unique opportunity for impact inherent in the philanthropic resource made possible by its sale. Floyd-Polk Healthcare Foundation’s Board of Directors intends for the Foundation to be a catalyst for transformation throughout the service area. Accordingly, the first President can expect to be given an evolving mandate along the following lines:

• Leadership: As the Foundation’s principal executive, the President must lead the institutional development of the Foundation and manage its operations while serving as a dedicated, visible, and participative advocate for sound philanthropic principles.

• Strategic framework: Leveraging the good work already undertaken, ensure the development of a thoughtful, deliberate, and actionable strategy that encompasses both long-term goals and the steps required in the early months and years to drive progress towards those goals.

• Staffing: Build and lead a team appropriate to the agreed-upon strategies and goals, reinforcing at every turn the Foundation’s commitment to excellence, professionalism, collaboration, and sensitivity to community needs.

• Protocols. Adapting best practices to local needs, develop for the Board’s endorsement a protocol for grant development, analysis, recommendation, funding, and evaluation of opportunities for sustainable impact within the Foundation’s four broad focus areas.

• Governance. Support the Board’s strategic role with best practices in foundation governance; ensure information and recommendations are rooted in meticulous research and rigorous analysis while remaining open to creative opportunities that may warrant quicker action.

• Administration. Provide effective stewardship and oversight of the Foundation’s operating and financial assets, consistent with board approved policies and strategies, by managing resources to optimal effect. The Foundation’s investment portfolio is being managed by outside professionals, but the President is directly accountable for the management of the Foundation’s staff and the soundness of the Foundation’s operating finances, including its budgets, control, and audit functions.

• Relationships. The ultimate success of the Foundation will depend less on specific grants and more on the trust it establishes with the communities it serves. Accordingly, the President must embody the Foundation’s ethos, setting the tone for its relationships, especially with those most affected by health disparities.

Requirements:

Minimum a bachelor’s degree with five years’ experience in a senior leadership position with a charitable foundation (required)

An advanced degree (master’s or Ph.D.) may not be required but could be advantageous, especially if it is in nonprofit management, public health, population health, the social sciences, or a related field (preferred) .