Senior Partnership Manager, Chicago (Contract)

The role

The Senior Partnership Manager will lead community partnership work in Chicago. This person will identify and cultivate partnerships with healthcare providers and community-based organizations to connect patients to affordable medication.

What you will do

• Identify and cultivate high-leverage partnerships with healthcare providers and community-based organizations across Chicago metro.
• Lead conversations with senior decision-makers and adapt SIRUM's pitch to each.
• Steer partnership models ranging from patient referral relationships to white-label pharmacy solutions.
• Guide partner organizations through implementation and staff training.
• Ensure a clean handoff to the Partner Success Team after partnership launch.
• Capture institutional knowledge into 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 substantial experience across the city's healthcare and social-service ecosystem
• 15+ years of experience in primary healthcare or community-services settings (FQHC, safety-net clinic, hospital, public health) as a social worker, care coordinator, LCSW, community health worker, or
• Managed workflows for low-income, uninsured, or underinsured populations
• Track record of building cross-functional relationships across the org chart
• Highly autonomous

Nice to have

• Senior social worker, care coordinator, or program leader with experience at Chicago FQHCs, community health centers, or safety-net institutions

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.