Partnership Manager, Chicago (Part-Time Employee)

The role

Partnership Managers will serve as community connectors to establish SIRUM's presence across Chicago's healthcare and social service landscape. You will identify and cultivate partnerships with healthcare providers and community-based organizations.

What you will do

• Identify and cultivate partnerships with healthcare providers and community-based organizations across Chicago metro
• Meet with decision-makers across all levels and tailor SIRUM's pitch 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 to identify key influencers and referral nodes
• 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
• Consistent 20 hours/week, with a recurring schedule you set
• 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.