Livinghr
Vice President of Impact
Geneva, IL. Posted a month ago
The role
The Vice President of Impact provides strategic and operational leadership for the nonprofit organization's Agencies, Programs, and Build Healthy Communities functions. This role advances the mission by strengthening community partnerships, supporting an agency network, and driving measurable community impact across a 13-county service area.
What you will do
- Provide strategic leadership for agency partnerships and network engagement.
- Strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of the member agency network.
- Oversee the development, implementation, and evaluation of hunger-relief programs.
- Lead Build Healthy Communities initiatives addressing food insecurity and nutrition.
- Establish strategic partnerships with healthcare providers, municipalities, and schools.
- Develop systems for measuring program effectiveness and community impact.
- Contribute to organizational planning, budgeting, and resource allocation.
- Support grant development, funder engagement, and outcome reporting.
- Oversee departmental budgeting and financial performance.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Director of Agencies, Director of Programs, and Director of Community Nutrition Programs.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of ten years of progressive leadership experience in nonprofit management, community programs, public health, human services, social services, network engagement, program leadership, or a rela
- Minimum of five years leading managers, directors, or multiple functions
- Experience building community partnerships, leading programmatic strategies, and advancing measurable community impact
- Experience strengthening partner networks, managing complex initiatives, and collaborating across diverse stakeholder groups
- Experience developing and using performance measurement systems, evaluation practices, outcome reporting, and data-informed decision-making
- Strong strategic thinking, relationship-building, facilitation, communication, change leadership, and people leadership skills
- Demonstrated commitment to equity, community partnership, dignity, accessibility, inclusion, and mission-driven work
- Ability to lead through influence, manage complexity, and balance strategic priorities with operational realities
- Ability to represent the organization with professionalism, integrity, credibility, and a commitment to mission impact
- Dependable transportation
- Ability and flexibility to travel throughout the organization's 13-county service area
Nice to have
- master's degree
- equivalent combination of education and experience
About the company
livinghr is a nonprofit organization focused on advancing food security and community health through its agency network and programs.