Principal Director, Program Development *Remote

Compassion & Choices is seeking aPrincipal Director, Program Development

This is a full-time, remote position. The starting salary range is $125,000–$140,000 annually. The final salary offered will be based on relevant experience, qualifications, internal equity, and organizational considerations.

We offer excellent benefits, including employer-shared medical and dental insurance premiums; employer-paid short- and long-term disability, life, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care; a commuter pre-tax benefit; eligibility to participate in a 401(k) with a generous 5% employer match and immediate vesting upon eligibility; paid holidays; paid time off; and personal days.

The Principal Director, Program Development will lead the design, implementation, evaluation, and sustainable growth of national end-of-life programs across Compassion & Choices’ strategic priorities, including dementia care, medical assistance in dying (MAID), advance care planning, and emerging areas of need.

This role will ensure patient-directed care is embedded throughout program strategy and delivery by incorporating patients’ values, preferences, autonomy, and lived experiences into program development, implementation, and evaluation.

The Principal Director will develop integrated program strategies, roadmaps, delivery models, governance structures, implementation frameworks, and measurable outcomes aligned with organizational priorities. They will translate organizational strategy into scalable programs, tools, resources, and approaches that can be adapted across communities and jurisdictions while identifying opportunities to address policy, practice, service-delivery, infrastructure, and access barriers affecting patient-directed end-of-life care.

The Principal Director will also build the infrastructure, partnerships, resources, and operating models necessary to support consistent program implementation and sustainable national growth. This includes strengthening organizational and sector capacity through education, training, knowledge sharing, technical assistance, and practical implementation resources.

• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, health systems, government entities, researchers, funders, community organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Establish approaches for evaluating program effectiveness, measuring outcomes, and supporting continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities for sustainable funding and contribute program expertise to grant strategies, funding proposals, partnership agreements, and other resource-development efforts.
• Monitor developments in end-of-life care, healthcare delivery, emerging practices, and community needs to identify trends, opportunities, and implications for organizational programs and strategy.
• Synthesize program outcomes, stakeholder experiences, implementation lessons, and emerging trends into actionable insights and recommendations for organizational leadership.
• Facilitate cross-functional learning and knowledge sharing so that lessons from program implementation inform future strategies, programs, and organizational decision-making.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for program innovation, replication, and expansion.
• Represent Compassion & Choices at conferences, coalitions, working groups, consultations, and other external forums.
• Serve as a strategic program resource to organizational leaders and cross-functional teams.

Directly supervises the Integrated Program Manager and may supervise consultants, contractors, or additional program staff as organizational needs evolve.

The Principal Director provides coaching, guidance, workload prioritization, performance feedback, and professional development support to direct reports and assigned consultants. This position also provides functional leadership and strategic direction to cross-functional teams, external partners, subject matter experts, and contractors supporting program development, implementation,…