Robert Wood Johnson Foundation·National focus·CEO Richard E Besser

Managing Director Healthy Children and Families

Compensation: $222K
Location: Princeton, NJ
Remote arrangement: Hybrid
Role family: Program leadership
Posted: Posted 10 days ago

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Senior program leader with 8+ years managing complex, multi-state health-equity portfolios combining policy research, Medicaid advocacy, and community-power funding; experienced navigating relationships with universities, policy intermediaries, and grassroots networks at national scale.

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$661M

Annual giving

$13B

Total assets

Richard E Besser

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Geographic focus

RWJF primarily funds research, policy advocacy, and civic-power building that advance health equity, strengthen the safety net (especially Medicaid), and change narratives and systems shaping health. They favor national policy and research intermediaries, university partners, and base-building networks that mobilize communities and influence state and federal policy. Grants often support technical assistance, evaluation, and narrative-change campaigns as well as campaigns to expand coverage and caregiving supports. The foundation’s portfolio blends traditional public‑health research with investments in community power, organizing, and narrative/reproductive justice work.

Health equity policy and measurement (county health rankings, data systems, evaluation)
Medicaid and safety‑net advocacy and monitoring (state-level policy, enrollment, automated decision-making)
Community power and base-building for health (funding grassroots networks and organizing groups)

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