Policy Director, Cornell Health Policy Center - Brooks School of Public Policy

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Cornell Health Policy Center is a cross-campus collaborative effort between the Brooks School of Public Policy and the Weill Cornell Medical College

What You Will Do

The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy is seeking a collaborative, creative, and entrepreneurial professional to serve as the Policy Director of the newly established Cornell Health Policy Center, a cross-campus collaboration with the Weill Cornell Medical College, beginning in fall 2024. The newly launched Health Policy Center will serve as a locally and nationally known source of rigorous and relevant health policy evidence, influence and advocacy as the locus of health policy impact, research, and training at Cornell. The inaugural Policy Director for the Cornell Health Policy Center will play an integral role in strategically developing, leading, and executing the Center's purpose-driven priorities and objectives to use data-driven evidence to impact advancing effective health policies and practices at the federal, state, and local organization and community levels.

The Policy Director will set the strategic direction for health policy program development and research translation, shepherd the scaling of the Center's policy, development, and implementation initiatives, and lead external engagement with public and private partners, advisory groups, and coalitions, including federal, state, and local policymakers, journalists, and interest groups to achieve impactful objectives. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in the policy field, deep knowledge of contemporary issues, and expertise in building, communicating and mobilizing around health policy. Reporting to the Center's founding co-directors (the Dean of the Brooks School who co-directs the Center with the Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics at Weill Cornell Medicine), the Policy Director will serve as a member of the Center's leadership team and will set its health policy engagement agenda and provide thought leadership to sustain the Center's growth and development. They will facilitate a thriving partnership between the Cornell Ithaca, NY campus of the Brooks School and the Manhattan, NY campus of Weill Cornell Medicine, working closely with the founding directors and co-directors on each campus to integrate the Center's work and build strong connections and collaborations to accomplish shared priorities.

Other key responsibilities include: direct a health policy portfolio of projects and cross-functional teams; identify and build strategic partnerships between the Center and other institutes and stakeholders in the health policy field; organize and execute events, such as panels and symposia, that facilitate engagement between health policy scholars at Cornell and policy audiences; partner with various directors to create and disseminate collaborative policy research publications; design and carry out research translation projects; build and maintain a vibrant network of community-based policy partnerships with external collaborators; manage the day-to-day operations, website, financial and budget resources and fundraising and grant development for the Center; complete strategic assessments and recommend and implement appropriate actions; develop project management systems and manage expectations from multiple stakeholders.

No visa sponsorship or relocation assistance are provided for this position.

Required Qualifications:

• Earned master's degree in a related discipline, particularly one that influences policy, health, or social factors that influence population health
• 5 to 7 years of professional experience in public policy, health policy, policy analysis, or public health
• Extensive experience and knowledge of public policy and health policy issue areas and an understanding of the legislative landscape at the state and federal levels with a proven track record of influencing health policymaking and advancing health and social policy initiatives
• Attention to detail and a willingness to participate in a start-up atmosphere
• Demonstrated success in management, leadership, and organizational strategy
• Demonstrated success in building networks and creating partnerships and alliances

Preferred Qualifications:

• Network of professional contacts, including policymakers, advisory groups, researchers, and community-based organizations
• Prior experience working in higher education

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• Our leave provisions include health and personal leave, three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and an end of the year winter break from December 25-January 1.
• Cornell's impressive educational benefits include a tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance Program.

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