Genesis Health Foundation - Executive Director

Genesisortho; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive nonprofit executive compensation

Direct partnership with leadership

Real measurable clinical impact

Job summary

A leading nonprofit healthcare organization in Chicago seeks an Executive Director to drive fundraising, manage donor relationships, and build a sustainable source of capital for indigent care. The successful candidate will cultivate major gifts, develop institutional partnerships, and oversee grant funding, while ensuring every dollar raised has a measurable clinical impact. This role is critical to establishing a solid financial foundation that enhances access to orthopedic care for underserved populations.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of successful fundraising and donor engagement.
• Experience in building and leading a nonprofit organization.
• Strong understanding of the healthcare landscape in Chicago.

Responsibilities

• Drive major gifts and individual donor strategy.
• Build and manage institutional partnerships.
• Develop and maintain grant funding portfolio.
• Recruit and activate an effective board.
• Design and manage the indigent care fund.
• Turn clinical success stories into compelling narratives.

Skills

Fundraising expertise

Donor relationship management

Nonprofit operations

Community engagement

Board management

Strategic planning

Job description

The best healthcare model in the world still has a hole in it. Medicaid covers a lot. Itdoesn'tcover everyone.There'sa population that falls through every gap — uninsured, underinsured, invisible to the system — that still walks through our doors with a torn ACL, a shattered wrist, a spinethat'sbeen quietly failing them for years. They need care. They deserve it. And right now, the infrastructure to fully fund itdoesn'texist.

That'sthe job.

The Genesis Health Foundation is the philanthropic engine behind Genesis Orthopedics & Sports Medicine — one of Chicagoland's fastest-growing, most mission-driven MSK platforms.We're16 clinics deep, running clinical trials, serving Medicaid populations at scale, and proving every day that excellent care and accessible care are the same thing. The Foundation exists to close the last gap:ensuring that patients with no coverage, no safety net, and no other options still receive world-class orthopedic care.

We need an Executive Director to build the institution that makes that possible.

The Role

This is afounding-energyleadership position.The Foundation has the right mission, the right clinical partner, and the right story.What it needs is an operator who can turn that into a fundraising machine, a community institution, and a durable source of capital for indigent care.

You'llown everything: strategy, donor development, institutional partnerships, board management, grant operations, community presence, and the organizational infrastructure to support it all.You'llwork in close partnership with the Genesis Orthopedics & Sports Medicine leadership team — withdirectline of sight into the clinical impact your work is funding.

When you raise a dollar,you'llknow exactly where it goes.

What You'll Drive

• Major gifts and individual donor strategy:identifying, cultivating, and closing relationships with high-net-worth donors who are aligned with the mission
• Institutional partnerships:foundations, health systems, corporate sponsors, and civic organizations across Chicago and beyond
• Grant development and management:building andmaintaininga diversified portfolio of public and private grant funding
• Board development:recruiting, activating, and stewarding a board that opens doors and brings resources
• Indigent care fund:designing and managing the financial mechanism that gets uninsured patients the care they need, with zero friction
• Brand and storytelling:turning Genesis's clinicaltrack recordinto compelling narratives that move donors to act
• Organizational infrastructure— building the team, systems, and processes tooperatea high-performance nonprofit

Who We're Looking For

You'vedone this before. You know how to build a donor pipeline, close a major gift, and manage a boardthat'sgenuinely useful. But beyond the craft of fundraising,you'remotivated by something specific: the belief that access to care is a solvable problem, and that the solution requires both excellent clinical infrastructureandthe financial architecture to back it up.

You'rea builder, not a caretaker.You want to create something, notmaintainsomething.

You understand both worlds.You can sit across from a major donor at a fundraising dinner andwalka clinic floor the next morning — and you know why bothmatter.

Youlead withthe mission, closewiththe data.Genesis has outcomes. It has patient stories. It has a model that works. You know how to translate all of that into a case for investment that sophisticated donors find compelling and irresistible.

You'reChicago-rooted or Chicago-ready.This city's philanthropic and civic ecosystem istheplaying field. Knowing it — or being hungry to learn it — is essential.

The Opportunity

• Competitive nonprofit executive compensation
• Direct partnership with the Genesis Orthopedics & Sports Medicine leadership team
• Real, measurable clinical impact — every dollar funds care for a specific patient population
• Ground-floor opportunity to build a foundation with significant long-term potential
• The infrastructure and credibility of an established, growing clinical operation behind you

About Genesis Health Foundation

Genesis Health Foundation is the nonprofit arm of the Genesis Orthopedics & Sports Medicine ecosystem — a full-spectrum MSK platformoperatingacross 16 clinics in Chicagoland, conducting clinical trials, and delivering orthopedic care to Medicaid populations at scale. Our clinical model has already proven that accessible care and exceptional carearen'tin conflict. The Foundation exists to extend that proof to the patients who fall outside every existing coverage structure.

We'renot a charity attached to a healthcare brand.We'rethe financial infrastructure for a movement.

Ifyou'vespent your career building institutions that make care moreequitable— andyou'reready to do it at the intersection of a world-class clinical operation and the communities that need it most — we want to hear from you.

Genesis Health Foundation is actively reviewing applications.