Executive Director, Healthcare Policy and Advocacy, East Coast

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The Executive Director, Healthcare Policy & Advocacy is responsible for aligning City of Hope’s policy, advocacy and government affairs agenda with the enterprise vision, mission, values, behaviors and strategic goals. Reporting to the Vice President, Government Affairs, the Executive Director provides messaging, data, tailored communications, and feedback to policymakers, legislators, administrators and other stakeholders to create a more favorable external environment that will help to the ensure the successful execution of the strategic and advocacy goals. This Executive Director will serve as the primary institutional policy liaison with federal elected officials, administration officials, third-party organizations, and key associations.

The East Coast-based Executive Director will work in close coordination and collaboration with the California-based Executive Director to review all relevant Federal legislation and proposed administrative rules sets to evaluate the potential impact, provide recommendations and propose specific responses to the Vice President of Government Affairs as well as top management so as to proactively manage emerging threats and opportunities. The Executive Director will review all relevant proposed rules from the Centers from Medicare and Medicaid Services, Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and any other agencies that create proposed rules that may impact the enterprise.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Attend relevant Congressional hearings, Hill briefings, or administrative agency meetings on matters of importance.
• Work in collaboration with Washington DC lobbying contractor (and in coordination with the California-based Executive Director) to complete regular visits with relevant members of Congress and Administrative Agency leaders.
• Coordinate relationship ownership with the California-based Executive Director to ensure each stakeholder/collaborator relationship has a relationship owner who will be responsible for meetings with that stakeholder and creation of relevant action plans.
• Represents City of Hope leadership with appropriate associations, including the ADCC, AACI, NCCN, CLSA and CHA/HASC. Develops and influences the policy agenda for key alliances of which City of Hope is a member (including the Alliance for Dedicated Cancer Centers, Association of American Cancer Institutes, Research America, California Life Sciences Association and California Hospital Association).
• Analyzes federal and selected state health care policy environment and identifies legislation and regulations to favorably impact the vision, mission and strategic goals.
• Read and summarize the proposed rules, assess potential impact, and make recommendations regarding submission of a City of Hope response.
• Drafts a response, when appropriate, to the proposed rule and then review that draft for edits with the Vice President, Government Affairs.
  
  

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelors; 3 additional years of experience plus the minimum experience requirement may substitute for minimum education.
• 10 years of progressively responsible experience in healthcare policy, advocacy and government relations, preferably in the health care arena. This experience should either include working for elected or appointed officials, or leadership role with a healthcare provider organization or a patient advocacy organization. Knowledge of nonprofit advocacy and lobbying laws and regulations is required.
• 7 years of experience in a leadership capacity.
  
  

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