Specialist, Health Innovation (Chicago/Hybrid)
Description
Work. Serve. Thrive.
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples' lives. Working at Feeding America is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission. We are innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, values-driven and focused on results.
Feeding America is the nation’s largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
This is a hybrid position based out of Feeding America’s Chicago office location. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees can be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day “work anywhere” program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.
Learn more about Feeding America here.
The Opportunity
The Specialist, Health Innovation is a creative, collaborative contributor who supports the Health Impact & Innovation team by creating environments, tools, and facilitated experiences needed for high-performing co-design and implementation of Food as Medicine (FIM) and Medically Tailored Grocery (MTG) initiatives. This role supports the implementation of relationships with healthcare industry influencers and decision makers in the private/public/non-profit sectors to drive systems change to build pathways to improve neighbors’ access to nutritious food that result in improved health outcomes.
This position focuses on creating the conditions where teams, food banks, and partners can think boldly, work efficiently, share learning, and collaboratively shape solutions. Rather than leading strategy or owning independent portfolios, the Specialist enables collaboration through thoughtful coordination, digital workspace architecture, creative facilitation support, and development of high-quality materials and insights. Success in this role requires supporting effective and efficient collaboration across Feeding America national organization (FANO) departments and partnering with department leadership and network members to implement national frameworks and state standards that accommodate local operational needs and neighbor preferences.
This position focuses on creating the conditions where teams, food banks, and partners can think boldly, work efficiently, share learning, and collaboratively shape solutions. Rather than leading strategy or owning independent portfolios, the Specialist enables collaboration through thoughtful coordination, digital workspace architecture, creative facilitation support, and development of high-quality materials and insights. Success in this role requires supporting effective and efficient collaboration across Feeding America national organization (FANO) departments and partnering with department leadership and network members to implement national frameworks and state standards that accommodate local operational needs and neighbor preferences.
Compensation
Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range: $75,000 - $80,000 Based on Experience.
Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range: $75,000 - $80,000 Based on Experience.
Benefits: A comprehensive list of benefits available to full-time employees can be found here.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain digital collaboration spaces (SharePoint, Teams, Miro, etc.) that are intuitive, well-organized, and visually engaging.
- Develop tools, templates, and workspaces that guide groups through structured co-design processes.
- Support creative facilitation by capturing ideas, synthesizing themes, designing interactive exercises, and helping groups move from ideation to action.
- Create inclusive environments where food banks and partners feel empowered to contribute, learn, and innovate together.
- Coordinate activities across multiple teams and track task progression.
- Support pilot programs, learning collaboratives, and communities of practice with logistics, engagement activities, and documentation.
- Capture questions, feedback, and ideas from food banks and partners during engagements.
- Conduct research on Food Is Medicine trends, Medicaid innovation, community health models, and emerging partnerships.
- Summarize findings in clear, accessible formats that support leadership and partner-facing work.
- Compile and organize data, create draft dashboards or reports, and produce structured summaries from co-design activities.
- Document lessons learned, challenges, and promising practices in ways that elevate the visibility of innovation across the network.
- Create high-quality draft materials for meetings, workshops, training sessions, and technical assistance efforts.
- Draft internal updates, summaries, and documentation of decisions.
- Coordinate collaboration with Capacity Building, Advocacy and Community Partnerships, Policy, Nutrition, Analytics, and Technology/Innovation teams.
Required Experience and Qualifications:
- 3 or more years of experience in healthcare payer, community health, population health, or clinical-community partnership environments at increasing levels of responsibility
- Experience in innovation settings such as accelerators, incubators, design labs, or similar collaborative spaces
- Specific experience in Food Is Medicine programming, nutrition security, or Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) programming preferred
- Background in program innovation and/or solution implementation, with demonstrated success
- Proven Ability to build organized, navigable, and visually appealing collaboration hubs using platforms such as SharePoint, Teams, Miro, and other digital tools
- Systems thinking with ability to develop operational or strategic frameworks that outline current state, future state, and transformational initiatives needed to achieve desired outcomes
- Demonstrated track record creating productive working relationships within large, complex organizations, federated networks, or diverse stakeholder groups
Required Leadership Competencies:
- Fosters an Enterprise Mindset
- Fosters an Open and Supportive Environment
- Leads with Accountability
- Collaborates Internally and Externally
- Focuses on People and Teams
- Manages Organization and Business Complexity
- Communicates with Impact and Influence
Feeding America’s goal is to attract, develop, retain, and promote a talented diverse workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging and contribute to a culture that values differences, ideas, and experiences. We intentionally seek out diverse perspectives and skills on our teams, knowing that it makes us stronger as an organization and better equipped to serve our neighbors in need. We encourage all individuals, including those from historically under-represented communities and individuals with lived experience of hunger, to apply.
Feeding America participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.