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VP, Community & Social Health Programs

Primary Location Oakland, California Schedule Full-time Shift Day
Job Number 1399420 Date Posted 12/17/2025
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Job Summary:

The Vice President, Community & Social Health Programs (VP, CSH Programs) sets the enterprise strategy and leads a disciplined portfolio that measurably improves member health, equity, experience, and affordability. The VP prioritizes investments, ensures evidence based design, and scales what works across markets. The role partners closely with market  leaders and enterprise functions to deliver results. The VP serves on the CSH Executive Team and the Chief Health Officer (CHO) leadership team.


Essential Responsibilities:
  • Enterprise Strategy & Roadmap: Define a clear strategy, OKRs, and multi year roadmap aligned to KP-s mission and business priorities; refresh annually based on evidence and enterprise needs.
  • Portfolio Leadership: Prioritize, fund, and sequence initiatives; manage interdependencies, risks, and change; ensure disciplined stage gates  from concept to scale.
  • Program Design & Scale: Oversee evidence based  program design and fidelity; develop playbooks and implementation supports that enable rapid, reliable scaling across markets.
  • Measurement & Value Realization: Establish KPIs and dashboards (health impact, equity, member experience, affordability); ensure transparent executive and Board reporting and post launch value tracking.
  • Partnerships & Community Alignment: Guide external partnerships (nonprofits, community based  organizations, vendors) and align charitable contributions strategy-through the ED-to amplify program impact.
  • Annual Planning & Budgeting: Lead planning and resource allocation for program areas; direct dollars and talent to highest value work; monitor ROI and cost  to  serve .
  • People & Culture: Recruit, develop, and performance manage ED  level leaders and teams; foster an inclusive, high  trust , learning culture rooted in KP values.
  • Governance & Integration: Represent CSH on the CHO leadership team; coordinate with Enterprise Strategy & Business Development, Finance, Legal/Compliance, Government Relations, IT/Data & Analytics, Communications, and Regional leadership to align decisions and remove barriers.
  • Risk, Quality & Compliance: Ensure programs meet regulatory, privacy, and audit requirements; establish quality standards and continuous improvement.

This position has a target base salary of $288,000 to $360,000 and is eligible for incentive compensation, an executive allowance, comprehensive health, wellness, time off, savings, and retirement benefits, as well as relocation support, as applicable.

Basic Qualifications:
Experience

  • Minimum twelve (12) years of progressive leadership in community/social health, population health, or enterprise program portfolios in complex organizations
Education

  • Master-s in public health, business, public administration, or related field required.
License, Certification, Registration
  • N/A

Additional Requirements:
  • Proven success scaling evidence based programs and leading ED level leaders.
  • Skills: Portfolio strategy, outcomes measurement, value realization, stakeholder management, executive communication, change leadership.
Preferred Qualifications:

  • Care delivery operations experience preferred.
  • MD/DO or clinical degree preferred.
Primary Location: California,Oakland,Ordway Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Shift: Day Workdays: M-F Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM Working Hours End: 05:00 PM Job Schedule: Full-time Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Flexible Employee Status: Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE Executives|NUE|Non Union Employee Job Level: Executive/VP Department: Po/Ho Corp - PO Community Benefits - 0308 Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
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