Are you passionate about improving the health of our communities? Arcora Foundation is dedicated to improving health equity by engaging with communities to prevent oral disease, transform health systems, and ensure that oral health is part of whole person care. Our long-term vision is that all people can enjoy good oral and overall health, with no one left behind.

We are seeking a Senior Program Manager to join the Arcora Foundation. We are looking for someone with experience in developing and cultivating authentic relationships with diverse communities, specifically with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who are disproportionately impacted by overall and oral health inequities. This position is part planner, part activist, requiring the ability to work with diverse partners, ask critical questions, listen well to identify the best approaches and make strategic adjustments, and implement those approaches with skill and enthusiasm. This person will have a track record of creating change with communities, leading initiatives, and developing and running projects that have had positive results. This position reports to the Senior Director of Community Partnerships.

Arcora Foundation offers a highly competitive medical, dental and vision plans as well offering an generous 401k match and all employees start accruing vacation and sick time from their very first day. We empower employee development through our tuition reimbursement plan, professional development plans, recognition programs, and employee-led communities.

The pay range for this position varies between $95,160.00 – $135,420.00. Washington Dental Service and its affiliates, including Arcora Foundation, Delta Dental of Washington, and TriForza intends to offer the selected candidate a base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. Base pay will also be adjusted based on the candidate's geographic location.

Essential Responsibilities include the following: The list of responsibilities listed is not intended to be comprehensive. Washington Dental Service and its affiliates, including Arcora Foundation, Delta Dental of Washington, and TriForza reserve the right to change the responsibilities at any time with or without notice. 

Leadership and Strategy

• Lead and direct multiple streams of work and teams within the Community Partnership portfolio of the Foundation’s work. This includes ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies and tools that advance organizational and team goals and priorities are implemented across their portfolio of work.
• Lead team of staff managing and supporting Local Impact Networks (LINs).
• Ensure work across teams is aligned to support Foundation strategy and mission.
• Make key programmatic decisions and find opportunities for collaboration across teams.
• Participate on the Foundation’s Strategy Teams.
• Provide guidance and support to staff and teams to ensure progress towards team goals.
• Provide staff support to Foundation Board and Foundation senior leadership.
• Represent the Foundation in external audiences; prepare and deliver presentations as needed.

Program Development, Implementation and Evaluation

• Serve as a subject matter authority on one or more topics related to the Foundation’s mission (e.g. Local Impact Networks, healthy behavior change, and social determinants of health.).
• Engage with staff and external partners to identify and implement community-driven approaches and innovative interventions to eliminate oral health disparities within communities. Partner with key collaborators to develop performance indicators to evaluate effectiveness.
• Contribute to the development and evaluation of the Foundation’s work plans and annual budgets and provide input into tracking of progress toward equity metrics and milestones.

Program Management and Budget Oversight

• Manage internal contracts and subcontracts, ensuring deliverables are met and budgets and reports are submitted on time.
• Provide technical support to staff overseeing contracts and contractors.
• Identify and cultivate relationships to help determine scopes of work with communities and other key collaborators, ensuring alignment with one or more of the Foundations goals, project accountability and progress toward identified goals.
• Lead key meetings and events, including setting priorities, planning agendas and presentations, and developing collaborator engagement strategies.
• Manage execution of program strategies using a proactive, community-driven, problem-solving approach and data driven methods

Community Engagement

• Cultivate, develop, and maintain relationships that are critical for creating change to make progress on achieving the Foundation’s mission.
• Build networks, coalitions, and authentic relationships with community leaders, elected and government officials and funders to bring to bear ideas and resources to assess and support the Foundation’s efforts.

Experience, skills, and education do you need to have to succeed in the position: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to successfully perform the essential functions of the position.

• Bachelor’s degree required; particularly in public health, public administration, healthcare administration, health education or business is preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant work experience working related to building or influencing health systems, community services, and innovative health or social service solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate relationships with tact, and to work effectively and respectfully with politically, ideologically, culturally, and geographically diverse groups of people and communities.
• Demonstrated ability to apply diversity, equity, and inclusion successful practices.
• Demonstrated track record in leading programs or initiatives related to oral health, overall health, social determinants of health and driving health equity.
• Demonstrated ability to work with individuals and organizations, at the local level to build support for identified program and policy goals.
• Ability to identify intersections with other Foundation activities and leverage the knowledge and connections of other Foundation staff.
• A strong commitment of coaching and mentoring direct reports to manage well and build on their strengths and capacities.
• Demonstrated ability to juggle multiple projects and work with teams with varied strengths to ensure goals are reached in a timely and successful manner.
• Ability to explain one’s decision-making processes, and synthesize complex information into straightforward communication in written and oral presentations
• Experience developing a budget, understand what the cost benefit relationships are, and opportunity for financial sustainability.
• Deep commitment to equity, alignment with the Foundation’s mission, and Delta Dental of WA and Arcora’s OneTeam Values: Accountability, Courage, Curiosity, Inclusion, and Integrity.
• Experience leading programs or initiatives with and within communities.

Washington Dental Service and its affiliates, including Delta Dental of Washington, Arcora Foundation, and TriForza is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

About the Arcora Foundation

Arcora Foundation advances oral health across Washington state. We are the foundation of Delta Dental of Washington, and the state’s largest foundation dedicated to this cause. We lead with equity in our work to achieve good oral health for all. Through partnerships, we focus our prevention and access priorities on racial and ethnic communities—specifically Black, Indigenous, and People of Color—where disparities in oral disease and access to care are significant. Our mission is in our name: bending the arc of oral health toward equity. Learn more at ArcoraFoundation.org.