NASTAD is a leading non-partisan non-profit association that represents public health officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs in the U.S. Our mission is to advance the health and dignity of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics by strengthening governmental public health and leveraging community partnerships. 

Our work advances NASTAD’s four strategic priorities: 1) Strengthen public health systems for HIV and hepatitis prevention, surveillance, and care; 2) Advance health and racial equity, and stigma elimination, focusing on disparately impacted communities; 3) Implement integrated approaches to address HIV, hepatitis, STIs, harm reduction, and the social determinants of health; 4) Strengthen organizational excellence within NASTAD and its member jurisdictions.

NASTAD serves as the Systems Coordination Provider (SCP) for the 47 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Parts A and B jurisdictions funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA-20-078), as part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EHE) initiative. As part of this work, NASTAD develops tools and resources to support health departments in EHE Phase I jurisdictions to improve coordination across health systems and collaboration with key stakeholder groups.

NASTAD Background

Our Mission & Vision

NASTAD is a leading non-partisan non-profit association that represents public health officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs in the U.S. Our mission is to advance the health and dignity of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics by strengthening governmental public health and leveraging community partnerships. Our vision is a world committed to ending HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics. We want to center on racial justice, anti-racism, and anti-white supremacist principles as we think about, approach, and conduct our work.

The Senior Director, Health Equity is responsible for the strategic leadership, direction, and results of NASTAD’s internal and external health equity, anti-racism, and anti-stigma activities; leading the “Health Equity” priority of NASTAD’s strategic plan. The Senior Director, of Health Equity, is responsible for developing and implementing training and professional development regarding these cross-cutting issues. The Senior Director, Health Equity supervises the work of NASTAD staff on the Health Equity Team. Additionally, the Senior Director, of Health Equity’s role includes leading NASTAD’s member services activities to enhance member engagement. The Senior Director, of Health Equity, frequently interacts with NASTAD members, partners, and federal agencies. The position upholds and advances NASTAD’s values, mission, and priority goals and objectives with an understanding of the organization’s resources and policies, and grant requirements. This position is defined within the Public Health Programs Specialists family.

Essential Functions

• Provides strategic leadership to advance NASTAD’s internal and externally facing health equity, anti-racism, and anti-stigma work including the provision or coordination of trainings/professional development opportunities.
• Supervises Health Equity team members and oversees the scope of work for consultants.
• Provides strategic leadership to extend and tailor NASTAD’s member services activities.
• Identifies and directs strategic growth and resource mobilization for the Health Equity portfolio.
• Oversees, directly and indirectly, interdisciplinary teams (both established and ad-hoc) of staff with public health programming, operations/administration, communication, and policy expertise, ensuring synergies through planning, coordination, intra-team communication, and deployment of resources (human and financial).
• Provides operational, technical, and programmatic leadership in the design and implementation of program and training activities, e.g., services and program integration, capacity-building, supporting planning, implementation and evaluation processes.
• Serves as Principal Investigator and/or project relationship manager when needed.
• Ensures timely, high-quality, and complete submission of work plans, quarterly and annual reports, financial reports, and any other reports required by funders.
• Facilitates engages with and responds in a timely manner to the needs of health department staff members, and federal and community partners.
• Represents NASTAD in various meetings with federal and national partners and other stakeholders.
• Attends and represents NASTAD at conferences and participates in relevant external meetings.
• Participates in NASTAD’s Organizational Leadership Team.
• Participates in NASTAD’s Business Development Team.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience/Education

• At least 15 years of progressive, relevant experience is preferred; a combination of relevant educational, professional, and lived experience is considered.

Competencies 

• Leadership – Integrates in their work and at team level a strategic vision and critical analysis that optimizes success for projects, staff, and organizational priorities as applicable.
• Communications – Strategically communicates internally and externally in a clear, concise, respectful, and trauma-informed manner; simplifies complicated concepts and communicates them clearly regardless of the situation or audience.
• Teamwork – Supports a balance between team goals and team members’ goals.
• Reliability and Adaptability –Takes ownership of own objectives and performance.
• Problem solving and analytical thinking – Takes a solutions-focused approach to problem solving

Environment and Scheduling

Additional Information

• Starting salary range $135,000 - $140,000, commensurate with experience 
• Interest in working with a national HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis public health organization.
• Strong training and facilitation skills preferred.
• Interest in working within a diverse environment.
• Willing to travel as needed.
• Remote work is possible.

We encourage people of diverse ages, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, disabilities, religions, races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, work, and life experiences to apply. We recognize that to accelerate the end of the HIV and hepatitis epidemics, our workforce must be representative of groups that have been disproportionately impacted.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.