US Community Impact Coordinator

Global Health Corps; New York (NY); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Health Corps in New York seeks an action-oriented US Community Impact Coordinator to foster connections among fellowship classes, alumni, and partner organizations. You will help build leadership, equity, and justice programming and support chapter engagement.

You will work to strengthen the network across the US and partner sites, coordinating events, mentoring, and opportunities that advance health equity through collaboration and professional growth.

Job description

Global Health Corps (GHC) mobilizes a global community of emerging leaders to build the movement for health equity. GHC believes young leaders with diverse backgrounds and a deep commitment to collaboration, innovation, and social justice are going to revolutionize how the world tackles its toughest health challenges.

Through a competitive recruitment process, we identify daring and innovative university graduates and early- to mid-career professionals from around the world and pair them with amazing partner organizations and government agencies in the US, East Africa, and Southern Africa. Our fellows spend a year in their placement devoting their unstoppable energy to making the world a healthier place for all people, everywhere.

Fellows convene throughout the year for additional training, community building, leadership development, and mentorship in order to become audacious, resilient, and highly-networked changemakers. Since its founding in 2009, GHC has supported over 1000 fellows working at various levels of the health system, across issue areas and across continents.

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ABOUT THE POSITION

We believe that our positive impact on health equity is strongest through a well-connected and diverse community. As such, we are seeking an action-oriented, adaptive leader with knowledge of and passion for US health equity and social justice who is excited about building connection and accelerating professional growth of our community members. With more than 1000 global health leaders in the GHC network, the US Community Impact Coordinator will foster relationships within and between fellowship classes and the broader GHC alumni community and maintain a strong partnership between GHC and alumni. The candidate will also support the development and execution of leadership, equity and justice programming and chapter engagement to encourage community building and collaboration among our alumni.