Principal Director, Program Development

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🌲 Oregon – Remote

🌲 Oregon – Remote

💵 $125k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

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📋 Program Manager

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Compassion & Choices

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 1980

🏥 Healthcare

🤝 Non-profit

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Non-profit • Healthcare Insurance

Compassion & Choices is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individuals and families to make informed decisions about end-of-life healthcare. They provide resources, training, and support to navigate complex medical options, advocate for medical aid-in-dying laws, and engage in litigation to protect patient rights. The organization's mission includes transforming end-of-life medicine by promoting patient-directed care and ensuring that all communities have access to appropriate end-of-life resources and information.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, implementation, evaluation, and sustainable growth of national end-of-life programs across strategic priorities including dementia care, medical assistance in dying, advance care planning, and emerging needs • Embed patient-directed care throughout program strategy and delivery by incorporating patients’ values, preferences, autonomy, and lived experiences • Develop integrated program strategies, roadmaps, delivery models, governance structures, implementation frameworks, and measurable outcomes • Translate organizational strategy into scalable programs, tools, resources, and approaches adaptable across communities and jurisdictions • Identify barriers affecting patient-directed end-of-life care across policy, practice, service delivery, infrastructure, and access • Build infrastructure, partnerships, resources, and operating models supporting consistent implementation and sustainable national growth • Strengthen organizational and sector capacity through education, training, knowledge sharing, technical assistance, and implementation resources • Develop and maintain strategic relationships with patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, health systems, government entities, researchers, funders, community organizations, and other stakeholders • Establish approaches for evaluating program effectiveness, measuring outcomes, and supporting continuous improvement • Identify sustainable funding opportunities and contribute program expertise to grants, funding proposals, partnership agreements, and resource-development efforts • Monitor end-of-life care, healthcare delivery, emerging practices, and community needs to identify trends and opportunities • Synthesize outcomes, stakeholder experiences, implementation lessons, and trends into recommendations for leadership • Facilitate cross-functional learning and knowledge sharing • Identify and evaluate opportunities for program innovation, replication, and expansion • Represent Compassion & Choices at conferences, coalitions, working groups, consultations, and external forums • Serve as a strategic program resource to organizational leaders and cross-functional teams • Directly supervise the Integrated Program Manager and potentially supervise consultants, contractors, or additional program staff • Provide coaching, guidance, workload prioritization, performance feedback, and professional development support • Provide functional leadership and strategic direction to cross-functional teams, external partners, subject matter experts, and contractors

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Public Administration, Social Work, Nursing, Nonprofit Management, Organizational Leadership, Program Management, or a related field required; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered • Master’s degree in a related field preferred • Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in program development, healthcare, public health, systems change, nonprofit leadership, or a related field • Experience designing, implementing, scaling, and evaluating complex programs across multiple settings, communities, or populations • Experience leading systems-change initiatives and addressing healthcare, policy, service-delivery, or access barriers • Experience supervising staff and providing functional leadership to cross-functional teams, consultants, volunteers, and external partners • Experience building partnerships with healthcare providers, government entities, researchers, community organizations, funders, and other external stakeholders • Experience in end-of-life care, serious illness, healthcare, public health, patient advocacy, health equity, or a related mission-driven field strongly preferred • Experience supporting grants, funding proposals, partnerships, or other program sustainability strategies preferred • Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills • Exceptional strategic, systems-thinking, and problem-solving skills • Ability to translate organizational priorities and stakeholder needs into practical, scalable solutions • Strong strategic planning, facilitation, consensus-building, and relationship-building skills • Ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and manage multiple organizational priorities • Ability to assess program performance, identify trends, establish measurable outcomes, and use data to inform planning, resource allocation, evaluation, and continuous improvement • Ability to build trust and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders • Proficiency with Google Workspace, Microsoft Office Suite, CRM platforms, project and program management tools, virtual collaboration platforms, survey and evaluation tools, and reporting applications • Advanced knowledge or experience in program development, capacity building, systems change, and sustainable program implementation • Advanced knowledge or experience translating organizational strategy into scalable program models, implementation frameworks, tools, resources, and measurable outcomes • Advanced knowledge or experience with patient-directed care and incorporating stakeholder perspectives into program design, implementation, and evaluation • Advanced knowledge or experience with program evaluation, impact measurement, continuous improvement, and data-informed decision-making • Advanced knowledge or experience building collaborative relationships and influencing outcomes across departments and with external partners • Advanced knowledge or experience operating effectively within a national, distributed, and volunteer-powered organization • Advanced knowledge or experience with equity, accessibility, cultural responsiveness, and incorporating lived experience into program development • Advanced knowledge or experience navigating sensitive end-of-life issues with professionalism and respect • Must be able and willing to travel up to 20% of the time, including overnight travel • No professional certification or license is required • Professional certifications or credentials are preferred but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Employer-shared medical and dental insurance premiums • Employer-paid short- and long-term disability insurance • Employer-paid life insurance • Employer-paid accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care • Commuter pre-tax benefit • 401(k) eligibility with a 5% employer match • Immediate 401(k) vesting upon eligibility • Paid holidays • Paid time off • Personal days