Partnership Manager, Chicago (Contract)
Location: Chicago metro area (required)
Type: Independent Contractor (1099)
Hours: 10-20 hours/week (flexible)
Compensation: $35-45/hour, commensurate with experience
About This Opportunity
SIRUM is expanding to Chicago, a major milestone in our mission to connect every person with the medications they need to stay healthy.
We're hiring Partnership Managers to serve as boots-on-the-ground community connectors, establishing SIRUM's presence across Chicago's healthcare and social service landscape. One profile we think could fit well is someone in the middle of their healthcare or social services career who wants to apply their clinical and community know-how to build partnerships on a flexible schedule. Other backgrounds welcome if you can do the work.
You'll be joining at the ground floor of something meaningful: helping tens of thousands of Chicago patients access affordable medication over the next four years and saving families millions in drug costs.
This isn't a traditional sales role. You're building trusted relationships with organizations serving low-income communities, meeting people where they are, and translating a real solution into partnerships that change lives.
Who This Role Is For
You have 5 to 14 years of experience in a primary healthcare setting (FQHC, safety-net clinic, hospital, public health). Maybe you're a social worker, care coordinator, community health worker, or medical assistant looking to pick up additional hours or grow into partnership development work. You know how clinic workflows actually function, you can speak the language, and you're ready to bring a real solution to organizations you already understand.
What You'll Do
Community Partnership Development
- Identify and cultivate partnerships with healthcare providers (FQHCs, safety-net clinics, hospitals) and community-based organizations across Chicago metro, with a focus on organizations serving families in lower-income communities
- Meet with decision-makers across all levels, from CEOs and Medical Directors to Social Workers, Community Health Workers, and Program Directors, and tailor SIRUM's pitch to each
- Navigate diverse partnership models, from patient referral relationships to white-label pharmacy solutions through Good Pill
Partnership Activation & Onboarding
- Guide partner organizations through implementation and staff training
- Ensure a smooth handoff to the Partner Success Team after partnership launch
- Document learnings and processes to help build a replicable Chicago playbook
Ecosystem Building
- Map Chicago's healthcare and social service landscape to identify key influencers and referral nodes
- Represent SIRUM at community events, health fairs, and professional convenings
Who You Are
Required
- Chicago-based, with familiarity across the city's healthcare or social service ecosystem
- 5 to 14 years of experience in a primary healthcare or community-services setting (FQHC, safety-net clinic, hospital, public health, social services for low-income populations) as a social worker, care coordinator, community health worker, medical assistant, or similar frontline role
- Direct experience working with low-income, uninsured, or underinsured populations
- Strong understanding of clinical or systemic workflows, with the ability to spot where a partnership fits into an existing process
- Comfortable building relationships with stakeholders across an org chart
- Able to manage your own pipeline and follow through without daily oversight
- Comfortable with office-side work: managing an inbox, editing a deck, sending follow-ups
Ideal Background
One example of a background that could work well: a current or former social worker, care coordinator, medical assistant, or community health worker at a Chicago FQHC, community health center, or community-services organization, with firsthand understanding of how medication costs hit patients. Many other paths to this role are welcome.
About SIRUM
SIRUM is reimagining US healthcare by connecting people with surplus medications. Founded at Stanford and a Y Combinator alumni, we're a fast-growing nonprofit tackling the ~$10 billion of medicine that goes to waste annually while families can't afford their prescriptions.
Our platform supplies $250,000 worth of medications to people in need every week. Our pharmacy service, Good Pill, delivers 600+ medications for just a $2/month administrative fee, mailed directly to patients' homes. We've helped 500,000+ patients access nearly 3 million prescriptions nationwide. Now we're bringing this solution to Chicago.
What We Offer
- Direct, measurable impact on thousands of families' lives
- Flexible schedule, 10-20 hours/week, set by you
- Ground-floor opportunity to shape how SIRUM grows in Chicago
- $35-45/hour, commensurate with experience
- Collaboration with a mission-driven national team
- Strong performance may lead to expanded scope or a full-time opportunity