Senior Director, Health Access Strategic Alliances

The American Diabetes Association is seeking a Senior Director, Health Access Strategic Alliances to join the Health Access and Quality Improvement team. The Senior Director leads the development, recruitment, cultivation, and management of strategic relationships that advance the organization’s mission, visibility, impact, and growth. The role oversees partnerships with national and regional organizations, civic and community institutions, professional associations, corporations, social impact organizations, funders, and other key stakeholders.

The Senior Director serves as a senior organizational ambassador, supporting and in collaboration with the Managing Director, developing mutually beneficial partnerships and ensuring agreements, events, and engagement activities, advance organizational priorities, funder commitments, ADA Standards of Care, and advocacy objectives.

• Develop and execute a strategic partnership plan aligned with organizational priorities and growth objectives.
• Identify, recruit, cultivate, and steward national, regional, civic, social, professional, corporate, community, and philanthropic partners.
• Build and manage a portfolio of high-value relationships, strengthening engagement, retention, and opportunities for expanded collaboration.
• Represent the organization with senior leaders, community stakeholders, professional organizations, funders, and other external partners.
• Identify cross-sector opportunities that expand reach, resources, influence, and mission impact.

• Lead the development, negotiation, execution, and management of MOUs and partnership agreements.
• Establish clear goals, deliverables, timelines, milestones, and accountability measures for partnerships and initiatives.
• Manage multiple concurrent relationships, projects, events, and deliverables with strong organization and attention to detail.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, tracking tools, calendars, and reporting systems to monitor partner activity, commitments, deadlines, outcomes, and follow-up.
• Coordinate across internal teams to ensure timely completion of partnership and funder commitments.
• Evaluate partnership performance and recommend opportunities for renewal, expansion, or improvement.

• Develop and manage partner events, convenings, forums, educational programs, and stakeholder engagements.
• Align events and external engagement with funder deliverables, organizational initiatives, ADA Standards of Care, and advocacy priorities.
• Manage event timelines, logistics, partner responsibilities, deliverables, and follow-up.
• Use post-event evaluation and reporting to measure outcomes and strengthen ongoing relationships.

• Collaborate with executive leadership and teams across development, programs, advocacy, communications, and operations to maximize partnership impact.
• Provide leadership with dashboards, updates, and recommendations regarding partnership activity, performance, opportunities, and risks.
• Establish efficient processes for partnership intake, activation, tracking, communication, and evaluation.

• Knowledge of and exposure to initiatives focused on raising awareness and increasing understanding of clinical trials, particularly among patients, caregivers, community stakeholders, and underrepresented groups.
• Experience supporting or contributing to educational programs, workshops, forums, and stakeholder engagements designed to strengthen clinical-trial literacy and understanding.
• Familiarity with partnering across clinical, community, advocacy, and professional organizations to educate…