Are you ready to apply your talents to help an innovative nonprofit that is changing the model for curing disease while improving the lives of people who are suffering? Mission: Cure is a growing nonprofit organization that has made great strides in record time. We bring a sense of urgency, efficiency, and innovation to the disease-curing ecosystem, starting with pancreatitis. We are determined, collaborative, and smart problem-solvers. If you share these traits and care about curing disease and improving health care, we invite you to apply.

Job Overview
The Program Associate will play a pivotal role in growing our organizational capacity and increasing our impact. This individual will help launch important new projects, such as collaborative efforts with other patient-led disease organizations, and will help manage fundraising and nonprofit operations.

Responsibilities Include:

1. Operational Support: Collaborate with the CEO to coordinate and optimize daily operational tasks and strategic priorities. Assist with hiring of new staff.
2. Program Development: Aid in the ideation, planning, and execution of new and existing programs, such as a partnership with the Department of Veteran’s Affairs to improve health care for veterans.
3. Nonprofit Management: Contribute to the effective management of the nonprofit by revising and ensuring compliance with policies, managing technology platforms, and helping with budgeting.
4. Board of Directors: Prepare for Board of Directors meetings and take meeting minutes.
5. Fundraising: Assist in fundraising efforts, including maintaining our Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack database, analyzing donor data, and drafting grant proposals.
6. Public Policy: Help plan and execute campaigns to make government funding and policy more patient centered.
7. Team Building: Participate in and occasionally lead team-building activities, fostering a strong, cohesive, and collaborative team environment.

Essential Requirements:

• Commitment to Mission: Cure’s mission and vision.
• Interest in nonprofit management.
• Bachelor’s degree and experience managing public health or related projects.
• Proven project management capabilities.
• Exceptional writing, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with and interest in using AI tools such as ChatGPT to maximize productivity
• Familiarity with Salesforce CRM preferred.
• A go-getter who takes a proactive approach, identifying and addressing needs without waiting for direction.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary range: $60-$70K (based on experience and location).
• Full-time role.
• Remote with occasional in-person meetings.

About Us:
Mission: Cure was founded in 2017 to find effective treatments and, ultimately, a cure for pancreatitis, an extremely painful, degenerative, and costly disease. Led by Megan Golden, a leader in innovative, outcome-based financing and Linda Martin, a veteran technology entrepreneur, Mission: Cure is pioneering a new funding model that creates new incentives for patient outcomes. Mission: Cure’s full-time staff of 4 is based across the US and in the Middle East.

How to Apply:
Please send your resume, a cover letter detailing your interest in the role, and a writing sample to hiring@mission-cure.org.

Mission: Cure is an equal opportunity employer. We invite qualified applicants of all backgrounds to join our team and contribute to our vision of changing the paradigm for curing disease.