Partnership Manager, Chicago (Contract)

The role

You will identify and cultivate partnerships with healthcare providers and community-based organizations in the Chicago metro area. You will guide partner organizations through implementation and training while mapping the local healthcare and social service landscape.

What you will do

• Identify and cultivate partnerships with healthcare providers and community-based organizations across Chicago metro
• Meet with decision-makers and tailor pitches to each
• Navigate diverse partnership models
• Guide partner organizations through implementation and staff training
• Ensure a smooth handoff to the Partner Success Team after partnership launch
• Document learnings and processes to help build a replicable Chicago playbook
• Map Chicago's healthcare and social service landscape
• Represent SIRUM at community events, health fairs, and professional convenings

Required qualifications

• Chicago-based, with familiarity across the city's healthcare or social service ecosystem
• 5 to 14 years of experience in a primary healthcare or community-services setting (FQHC, safety-net clinic, hospital, public health, social services for low-income populations) as a social worker, car
• Direct experience working with low-income, uninsured, or underinsured populations
• Strong understanding of clinical or systemic workflows
• Comfortable building relationships with stakeholders across an org chart
• Able to manage your own pipeline and follow through without daily oversight
• Comfortable with office-side work: managing an inbox, editing a deck, sending follow-ups

Nice to have

• Current or former social worker, care coordinator, medical assistant, or community health worker at a Chicago FQHC, community health center, or community-services organization

Benefits

• Direct, measurable impact on thousands of families' lives
• Flexible schedule, 10-20 hours/week, set by you
• Ground-floor opportunity to shape how SIRUM grows in Chicago
• Collaboration with a mission-driven national team
• Strong performance may lead to expanded scope or a full-time opportunity

About the company

SIRUM is a fast-growing nonprofit reimagining US healthcare by connecting people with surplus medications. Founded at Stanford and a Y Combinator alumni, the platform supplies medications to people in need.