Executive Director, CHAS

Reporting to the Faculty Director, the Executive Director (ED) plays a pivotal role in advancing the mission and new strategic direction of CHAS. The ED will help to develop key collaborations across the University and the City of Chicago around Climate and Health, build grant funding with foundations and government agencies, and implement new programming around climate and health. The ED will work closely with local, state, and national healthcare leaders, community partners, non-profits, media, and funders. In partnership with the Faculty Director and other leaders, the ED will work to advance strategic priorities and ensure continuity of funding. The ED will also handle all aspects of the Center’s administrative functions.

This leadership role will partner with the CHAS Faculty Director to conceptualize a strategic vision that encapsulates CHAS’s new Climate and Health objectives. The ED will advance the development of and implement strategic plans that ensure projects and activities are executed in alignment with the vision and long-range objectives.

The ideal candidate will be innovative, intellectually curious, and a collaborative leader with substantive expertise in climate change initiatives and ideally substantive knowledge related to climate and health. Strong candidates will have deep familiarity with securing grant funding and working with climate and health-focused leaders in the foundation, non-profit sector, and/or in policy and practice research. Contacts within the philanthropic community and familiarity with higher education institutions is strongly desired. The ideal candidate will have experience disseminating the results of research to various audiences.