Director, Health System Quality Initiatives

Alzheimer's Association - Orange County Chapter; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

The Director, Health System Quality Initiatives at Alzheimer’s Association leads the multi-year health system quality improvement initiative, overseeing content, dissemination, and field adoption. The role serves as the primary staff lead for expert advisory councils and liaises with funders to report program progress.

The position requires coordinating with various teams to ensure clinical accuracy, developing resources for health systems, and supporting cross-functional program activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in public health, healthcare administration, health communications, or related field.
• Advanced degree in a clinical, public health, or health sciences field preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own execution of the initiative's multi-year roadmap and report progress to funders.
• Develop content and resources for the initiative and manage dissemination to health systems and clinicians.
• Coordinate with expert advisory councils and prepare briefing materials for meetings.
• Translate recognition framework content plans into specifications for ALZPro and ensure handoff readiness.

Skills

Project management

Written communication

Verbal communication

Independent work

Cross-functional collaboration

Healthcare/clinical knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in public health, healthcare administration, health communications, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Position Summary

The Director, Health System Quality Initiatives leads execution of the Association's multi-year, funded health system quality improvement initiative. This role is accountable for the initiative's activities and end goals across content, dissemination, and field adoption; serves as the primary staff lead supporting the initiative's convened expert advisory councils; and meets regularly with the initiative's funders to report on program progress. This includes leading content and program requirements for the initiative's health system recognition framework, alongside the initiative's broader clinical and implementation resources.

Responsibilities

Initiative Strategy & Funder Reporting (25%)

• Own execution of the initiative's multi-year roadmap, driving progress against its funded activities and end goals.
• Meet regularly with the initiative's funders to report on program progress, respond to funder questions, and keep funder expectations aligned with execution.
• Partner with the Sr. Director on initiative strategy, prioritization, and risk, and represent the initiative in internal and external forums.
• Track the initiative's commitments against funder and leadership expectations, including progress toward its funded activities and end goals.

Content Development, Dissemination & Field Adoption (25%)

• Lead development of content and resources that fulfill the initiative's deliverables.
• Own the dissemination strategy for initiative resources, ensuring content reaches health systems, clinicians, and field teams through the right channels and formats.
• Adapt and tailor resources to support implementation across varied health system audiences and settings, including modified versions for resource-constrained health systems and underserved populations.
• Work with Health Systems Directors to ensure field teams have the resources and context needed to support adoption.

Expert Advisory Council Support (20%)

• Serve as the primary staff liaison to the initiative's convened expert advisory councils, coordinating meeting content, agendas, and speaker structure.
• Prepare briefing materials, scripts, and follow-up actions for council meetings, ensuring content reflects current initiative status and decisions.
• Track and close out council recommendations and action items between meetings.

Recognition Framework Content & ALZPro Coordination (15%)

• Own content and program requirements for the health system recognition framework — what it measures and the resources that support it — partnering with the Director, Healthcare Solutions, who owns the digital strategy and platform build.
• Translate recognition framework content plans and deliverable timelines into specifications the ALZPro team can use for sequencing and release planning; platform decisions remain owned by the Director, Healthcare Solutions.
• Ensure recognition framework content is packaged consistently and ready for handoff to ALZPro, and work with the ALZPro team and Digital Strategy as needed to resolve content format or usability issues ahead of integration.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Program Support (15%)

• Partner with Medical Affairs to ensure the initiative's resources are clinically accurate and aligned with current evidence and organizational positions.
• Coordinate with Professional Education to bring the initiative's content to market through courses, modules, and toolkits.
• Support Foundation and Corporate Giving with content and resource materials for initiative-related funding proposals and partner-facing needs.
• Partner with Integrated Marketing and Communications on promotional strategy and dissemination of the initiative's resources.
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in public health, healthcare administration, health communications, or a related field; advanced degree in a clinical, public health, or health sciences field preferred but not required.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of progressive experience in content development, program development, or healthcare quality improvement.
• Demonstrated experience developing resources for health systems or clinical/professional audiences.
• Experience working with quality improvement, health system recognition, or accreditation-style initiatives strongly preferred.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10-15% of the time. Must have a valid driver's license.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Experience owning strategy and goal delivery for a multi-year, funded initiative, including accountability to funders and leadership for activities and outcomes.
• Experience supporting or staffing expert advisory boards, councils, or committees, including meeting content development and follow-through on recommendations.
• Comfort engaging directly with funders on program status, including framing progress and open issues for a non-internal audience.
• Demonstrated experience developing and disseminating content or resources in a healthcare, public health, or professional education context.
• Ability to translate complex clinical and scientific content into practical, implementation-ready tools for health systems and clinicians.
• Experience coordinating cross-functionally in a matrixed environment, including with peer teams that share related but distinct scope.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent deliverables and timelines against a quality improvement initiative's commitments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with sound judgment on tone and format across professional and health system audiences.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining close coordination with content, platform, and program partners.

Title: Director, Health System Quality Initiatives

Position Location: Remote

Full Time (37.5 hr/wk)

Position Grade & Compensation: Grade 511

The Alzheimer's Association’s good faith expectation for the salary range for this role is between $140,000-$165,000.

This position is eligible for a bonus based on both individual and organizational performance, up to 6%.

Reports To: Sr. Director, Clinical Programs, Translation & Quality Improvement

Who We Are

The Alzheimer’s Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Our mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia– by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support. The Alzheimer’s Association announced a landmark $100 million investment in research for 2023. This unparalleled commitment is illustrative of the momentum we are building in dementia research — our investments today will lead to breakthroughs tomorrow. At the Alzheimer’s Association, our employees are at the core of all we do. Our network of more than 1,750 employees across the United States makes a difference each and every day for those impacted by Alzheimer’s and those at risk for the disease. At the Alzheimer's Association®, we believe that diverse perspectives are critical to achieving health equity — meaning that all communities have a fair and just opportunity for early diagnosis and access to risk reduction and quality care. The Association is committed to engaging underrepresented and underserved communities and responding with resources and education to address the disproportionate impact of Alzheimer’s and dementia. The Alzheimer’s Association commitment remains steadfast in engaging all communities in our full mission. The Association provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment to the fullest extent required by law, including, but not limited to, on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. Employees working 24 hours/week or more are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, flex accounts, short and long-term disability, life insurance, long term care insurance, tuition reimbursement, generous Paid Time Off, 12 annual holidays and Paid Family Leave, as well as an annual Cultural & Heritage Day and Volunteer Day of their choosing. They are also eligible for our gold standard 401(k) retirement plan. Full time employees (37.5 hours/week), will enjoy all of the above plus an annual School Visitation Day and an Elder Care Facility Day of their choosing.

Qualified Applicants with arrest or Conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act at the Alzheimer's Association. The Alzheimer's Association will conduct an individualized assessment of the material job duties of this job include working with vulnerable communities which the employer may reasonably believe that Criminal History may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship for the safety of the community. The background check will include searches for: social security person search, public reports, county & federal criminal reports, multi-jurisdictional, sex offender database, NSOPW national sex offender, education, employment history, motor vehicle or driving history, and reference checks.