VP of Strategic Partnerships & Growth

About HealthCorps

HealthCorps is a nationwide nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing lives by tackling health issues within communities through creative educational programs, leadership initiatives, and service learning. The organization empowers teenagers to serve as catalysts for change within their families, schools, and neighborhoods. The program is founded on the understanding that limited health education access can result in lifelong social, emotional, and physical hardships.

Role Overview

HealthCorps is establishing a new Growth & Strategic Partnerships Division, with the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Growth leading the charge. This role involves managing a vast, high-impact portfolio that includes national funder and strategic partnerships, development, grant administration, fundraising, branding, marketing, and expanding alumni, community, and hub partnerships. The role requires collaboration with a national team and hub program managers to devise and implement this vision effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead external relationship cultivation alongside the CEO with various stakeholders including health systems, corporate sponsors, school districts, foundations, and community groups.
• Develop and steer a comprehensive partnership strategy aligning grantmaking, sponsorship, and program-based relationships with growth objectives.
• Maintain and expand a pipeline of prospective partnerships from initial contact through qualification and closure.
• Manage existing partnerships ensuring loyalty, maximizing value, and increasing renewals or upgrades.
• Monitor trends in funding and adjust positioning to anticipate market changes.
• Manage the full sales cycle for mid-tier and emerging partnership opportunities, including pitch creation, proposal writing, and grant submissions showcasing HealthCorps' impact data.
• Collaborate with leadership to secure major transformational sponsorships at various organizational levels.
• Lead brand strategy, setting the tone across all external communication platforms, with oversight of marketing execution on social media, website, newsletters, and press.
• Translate research-validated program impact into clear, compelling narratives and develop partner-facing materials such as decks and reports.
• Represent HealthCorps at conferences, sector meetings, and media engagements.
• Enhance local impact by building advisory committees with civic, education, and philanthropic leaders and partnering with local teams for event planning and partnership cultivation.
• Engage and grow the alumni network as a strategic community connecting them to advisory roles, volunteering, and local partnerships to extend outreach.
• Lead and mentor a division team including Senior Manager of Development, Marketing Manager, part-time Director of Events, and Alumni & Community Manager.
• Act as a player-coach, personally managing a partnership portfolio while guiding team performance toward revenue and relationship targets.
• Set and monitor KPIs for pipeline growth, revenue, and brand performance, providing reports to the CEO and Board to ensure ROI.
• Oversee the division budget and participate in organizational strategic planning as a leadership team member.

Candidate Profile

• Adept relationship builder comfortable closing high-value partnerships and maintaining key accounts.
• Experienced leader able to manage and develop a team while handling an individual portfolio.
• Strong presenter with experience in pitching and securing funding across various audiences including CEOs, boards, and funders.
• Proficient in brand strategy development and marketing oversight, skilled at transforming complex program outcomes into persuasive external messages.
• Excellent written communicator capable of crafting proposals, grant narratives, and impact reports that motivate action.
• Knowledgeable about health systems, corporate social responsibility, education, or youth service sectors; experience with health systems or school districts is a plus.
• Entrepreneurial mindset suited to building new systems in a fast-growing organization.
• Experienced with CRM platforms and data-oriented pipeline and relationship management.
• Passionate about near-peer mentoring, health equity, and youth development.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, public health, communications, marketing, or related disciplines.
• More than seven years of professional experience in business development, strategic partnerships, sales, or revenue leadership.
• Proven experience managing teams and direct reports.
• Successful history of closing and expanding partnerships and managing account portfolios.
• Willingness and ability to travel to HealthCorps hubs, partner sites, and events.

Preferred:

• Experience in healthcare, health systems, corporate social responsibility, or youth-serving organizations in nonprofit or for-profit sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to generate revenue through client, sponsor, or partner relationships; philanthropic fundraising experience is a benefit.
• Experience developing advisory boards, local steering committees, or community engagement frameworks.
• Proven adaptation of commercial business development skills to mission-driven contexts.
• Advanced degrees or specialized training such as a Master’s degree.

Compensation and Benefits

This full-time exempt role includes a comprehensive benefits package tailored to support employee health, financial security, and well-being. Salary varies based on qualifications and location. Candidates residing near or within HealthCorps hubs such as Houston, TX, receive slight preference.

• Paid time off to support rest and personal priorities.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• Life insurance benefits.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
• Additional benefits suited to individual lifestyle needs.

HealthCorps observes federal holidays for additional employee rest.

Equal Opportunity and Compliance

HealthCorps is committed to equal employment opportunity and abides by all relevant federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or other protected categories. Background and reference checks are mandatory prerequisites for employment.

Additional Notes

HealthCorps retains the right to assign additional responsibilities as needed. Employees are encouraged to be adaptable and responsive to evolving job duties.