Program Director: Health Innovations - Biltmore Campus, Asheville

## Program Director:
Health Innovations - Biltmore Campus, Asheville Apply locations:
Asheville, NCtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 6 Days Agojob requisition :
R3546

The Program Director of Innovation/Pre-Award (PDI) is a strategic leader responsible for identifying, developing, and securing external funding that advances organizational priorities. This role oversees all pre‐award functions for government funding and partners with the Development team for private foundation funding, including opportunity scouting, proposal strategy, partnership development, budget planning, and submission coordination. The PDI ensures proposals are competitive, aligned with institutional goals, and compliant with sponsor requirements.

The PDI collaborates closely with executive leadership, Development, department chairs, program leads to build a strong pipeline of fundable initiatives and strengthening organizational capacity for grant development.
* The Program Director of Innovation (PDI) is a pre-award strategic leader responsible for cross department and service line partnership who guides identifying, developing, and securing funding opportunities that support research, programs, and initiatives aligned to MAHEC strategic priorities. This role collaborates with MAHEC leaders on grant strategy, proposal development, and fostering collaborations to advance the organization’s mission. The PDI will provide expertise and leadership in developing, managing, resourcing, monitoring, and evaluating new initiatives, programs, and grants within MAHEC and for the benefit of the community.

This role drives pre-award grant and contract development activities, identifying funding opportunities, building strategic partnerships, and developing high-quality, competitive proposals that align with the organization’s mission to advance healthcare innovation and workforce development. In addition, the position will promote and ensure high-quality evidence-based program design, program evaluation, and dissemination. The PDI will partner with the Development team to gather information, draft applications and align foundation support with areas of greatest needs and MAHEC priorities.

In addition, the PDI will partner with key leaders to create a master strategy that aligns foundation, government and other external funding with MAHEC’s strategic plan.
* The role can manage multiple teams overseeing programs and projects through the full life cycle in alignment with the Office of Sponsored Programs policies and processes. When needed the PDI will also initiate and implement new programs and projects identified by Chairs, Medical Directors and Service Line Leaders to ensure effective and timely launch. The position can mentor learners, review/evaluate team members, identify training needs, conduct project management training and technical assistance for the organization, consult and supports on other projects to initiate or correct course, participate in hiring new or replacement roles in program and project management and facilitate CQI to ensure growth and improvement.
** SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
**** Strategic Funding Leadership
*** Lead the organization’s pre‐award strategy for government funding to align opportunities with institutional priorities.
* Align pre-award activities to the overall policy, procedures and guidance set by OSP leadership
* Conduct environmental scans to identify and synergize federal, state, foundation, and industry funding opportunities.
* Advise leadership on funding trends, strategic positioning, and competitive opportunities.
* Develop multi‐year funding strategies for departments and service lines.
** Proposal Development & Management
*** Oversee the full pre‐award lifecycle from concept to…