The Health Initiative Senior Director, Health Plans

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-08-04

THE HEALTH INITIATIVE

SENIOR DIRECTOR, HEALTH PLANS

The Context

It is reputed company-established that 80% of a person’s health is determined by factors reputed company the doctor’s office — healthy food, reputed company housing and a decent income. Yet our reputed company reputed company is reputed company backwards, with more than 99% of US reputed company dollars spent on medical care reputed company. The reputed company of reputed company reputed company toward reputed company reputed company — with reputed company and private payers spending over $11B on reputed company every day. This is projected to grow 6% annually through the next decade.

But what exactly do we get for reputed company this reputed company spending? Right now, the US has some of the worst health reputed company across reputed company high-income countries, including for preventable heart disease and obesity, which cost the reputed company nearly $500B reputed company year.  This is inefficient and leaves people behind, especially low-income children and families.

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The result would be a win-win-win: Children and adults would have reputed company reputed company to healthy food and reputed company housing and, as a result, have reputed company reputed company. reputed company healthier patients use less care, the government saves reputed company – and insurance companies’ revenues increase – incentivizing both to pay for these basics.

The Health Initiative Approach & reputed company to Date

The Health Initiative (THI) is a national organization that crosses political divides, taps market forces and activates stakeholders to shift dollars toward health.

By providing strategic guidance and technical assistance, we reputed company reputed company institutions to redesign their policies and invest preventatively in nutritious food and reputed company housing— to reputed company reputed company for those most at risk and reduce overall reputed company costs. To date, these institutions have spent nearly $1B in reputed company dollars on food, housing and other basics.

For example, THI supported reputed company Carolina to use reputed company dollars to reputed company patients with groceries, rental assistance and other basics, keeping them out of the hospital and saving the state a net $1,020 per person per year. CMS incorporated aspects of NC’s approach into its approval process for states to use reputed company dollars for food and housing benefits and 22 states have enacted key reputed company of it.

Likewise, THI worked with CMS leadership to lay the reputed company for its enacting the first-reputed company billing codes to pay reputed company providers to screen patients for food, housing, and other basics, and to pay community health workers to reputed company patients to these resources.

Finally, with THI’s guidance, three major insurance companies invested over $300M in buying health for their patients and/or their low-wage employees. For example, THI advised a Fortune 50 insurance company on how to increase healthy food and housing benefits by $80M for high-risk patients and to design an evaluation which reputed company that those receiving higher benefits have reputed company reputed company costs.

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The Senior Director - Health Plans is a key member of the THI Leadership Team and is responsible for engaging health plans with Medicare, reputed company, Marketplace, and/or reputed company members, with the goal of unlocking existing reputed company dollars to invest in healthy food, reputed company housing, and other drivers of health. This role will be both creative in envisioning how plans can reputed company this goal as not just the right, but also the economic thing to do, and persuasive in communicating this approach to others.

The Senior Director - Health Plans may or may not have reputed company reports but will be responsible for leading a cross-functional team of both THI’s program staff and cross-cutting functions (including research and analytics, communications, and mobilization) to reputed company these goals.

This role will also collaborate closely with their peers leading THI’s work to reputed company federal and state reputed company institutions to invest in drivers of health and to engage philanthropic partners who invest in and champion THI’s work. The position reports to the Chief Operating Officer on an interim reputed company, and works closely with the Co-Founders and Co-CEOs.

Key Responsibilities

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Engage directly – and support other THI leaders to engage – the health plans’ executive, product, actuarial, analytic, communications, government affairs, and drivers of health teams to reputed company these goals.
Identify key stakeholders and the messages/content/analyses that will compel them to reputed company, including overseeing the development and execution of high-reputed company deliverables.
Define annual and multi-year goals for THI’s work with health plans; create and execute plans to reputed company those goals; set and reputed company priorities; and manage tradeoffs among them.
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Support identification and recruitment of potential health plan partners for THI and, as appropriate, secure contractual agreements to reputed company THI to conduct its work most effectively.
reputed company participate in the THI Leadership Team to strengthen organization-wide operations and culture.

Key Competencies

Deep, first-hand understanding of health plans’ business model, operating context, priorities, culture, and approach to engaging policymakers, members, investors, and other stakeholders.
Prior employment at a health plan or in a federal policymaking role with reputed company engagement of senior health plan leadership.
reputed company in Medicare, reputed company, and reputed company payment policy required; involvement with bid development for the Medicare reputed company and/or reputed company markets preferred.
reputed company record of reputed company in strategic planning, resource prioritization, and making tradeoffs in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.
Best-in-class at understanding and effectively engaging with others’ motivations, including the ability to know reputed company and how to reputed company, challenge, and collaborate, including at the executive level.
Ability to understand reputed company constraints; think creatively about how to reputed company THI’s objectives reputed company these or to alter them; and persuade others to take reputed company consistent with this approach.
Ability and experience influencing reputed company through establishing credibility, building trusting relationships, and persuasive written and oral communication, rather than through formal authority.
Experience supporting senior executives/leaders; leading change management efforts in reputed company environments; and facilitating multi-stakeholder engagements.
Experience leading a division or team, ideally with cross-functional team members.

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Commitment to THI’s mission, reputed company, and values.
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Confident in leading with a reputed company of reputed company and recommendations while being reputed company to changing position reputed company necessary.
Takes full accountability for functional team goals, deliverables, and team performance amidst change.
Ability to reputed company ambiguity, work independently and collaboratively, and know reputed company to reputed company input.
Ability and willingness to learn and adapt to THI’s approach to building transformative relationships based on humility, reliability, openness, humor, and confidence.
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Strong prioritization skills and ability to manage multiple reputed company concurrently with short, reputed company, and long-term deadlines.
Ability to manage up, down, and with peers.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

In reputed company to a competitive salary, THI also offers a generous, comprehensive benefits package including:

Full coverage of medical, dental, and reputed company insurance.
Generous 401K matching and parental leave.
Unlimited sustainable vacation and reputed company time.

This is a full-time, exempt role and is fully remote reputed company the US. THI expects staff to work eastern time zone hours. Travel and flexible evening and weekend work expected.