Executive Director

Charitable Healthcare Network – Seeking Executive Director

Accomplished healthcare advocate for the most vulnerable

Premier statewide healthcare collaborative

Founded in 2000 as the Ohio Association of Free Clinics (OAFC), the Charitable Healthcare Network (CHN) is a dynamic collaborative network of 59 of Ohio’s charitable and free healthcare providers supporting and advocating for quality care for Ohio’s most underserved populations. Its operating budget of $3MM is supported by the State of Ohio’s General Revenue Fund augmented by generous gifts and grants from foundations and individual donors.

Rewarding opportunity for the next leader

Guiding a hybrid staff of three and reporting to a ten-member state-wide Board of Directors, the next ED will inherit this financially secure 501(c)(3). A discerning understanding of today’s healthcare environment and barriers facing the underserved will be paramount, as will the ability to facilitate and continue to grow collaborative network engagement. Advocacy experience in Columbus will be essential to continue to promote and provide for the urgent patient needs of CHN network organizations. 

Among the desired experiences, skills, and competencies

• Accomplished networker/lobbyist 
• Appreciation of nonprofit 501(c)(3) clinics
• Articulate communicator/advocate
• Creative forward-thinking leader
• Data-savvy to identify future trends
• Desire to impact and travel the state
• Driven, ethical, can-do attitude
• Effective, efficient fiscal manager
• Experience raising philanthropic gifts 
• Extraordinarily strong people-skills
• Empathy for marginalized communities
• Flexible, adaptable leader of peers
• Healthcare business acumen
• Humility to lead accomplished peers  
• Leadership experience of 7 years
• Mindset to serve the underserved
• Nonprofit leadership experience
• Organized, efficient collaborator 
• Out of the box macro thinker
• Relative academic degree, certification(s)
• Social issues thought leader
• Team leader



Benefits 

Commensurate with experience, starting annual salary range of $150K to $200K plus annual performance bonus. 27 days PTO/vacation days per year; prorated for 2026. Eleven state and federal holidays. Medical, dental, vision coverage. Employer contribution to personal 401K. Allowances for car, phone, professional development, community engagement and professional memberships. Free, covered parking in the Community Impact Center, 215 N. Front Street, Columbus.       CHN is an equal opportunity employer.

Open now. Apply today! 

With your resume, please email your personalized letter specifically addressing how your career experiences have prepared you to lead CHN. All applications will be acknowledged with confidentiality. Search facilitated by The Yunker Group: send to jody@theyunkergroup.com.