Careers - Blue Zones

Passionate About Helping People?

A career at Blue Zones offers the opportunity to improve lives and make a meaningful difference. We are always interested in meeting talented mission-driven people with experience in healthcare operations, public health, public policy, project management, and brand licensing. If that sounds like you but you don’t see a position that best describes your skill set, we’d love to hear from you. Contact: careers@bluezones.com

Blue Zones provides equal employment opportunities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated. Blue Zones is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

Blue Zones is a well-being transformation company that partners with communities, organizations and individuals to make healthy choices easier. Today we are in over 70 communities and working with thousands of organizations and millions of Americans throughout the country, helping them live better, longer. We do this by encouraging sustainable changes in the built environment, food environment, and social networks, often suggesting policy changes throughout a community including such places as worksites, schools, restaurants, grocery stores, faith-based communities, convenience stores, and neighborhoods. By helping people live better and longer by making the healthy choice the easy choice, communities can lower healthcare costs, improve productivity, access grants and funding available locally and nationally, and enjoy a higher quality of life.

Our work is based on principles identified during an ongoing twenty-year-plus worldwide longevity study commissioned by National Geographic, and detailed in the New York Times best-seller, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, and The Blue Zones Solution by Dan Buettner. The Blue Zones Project is based on this innovative approach. Our work has been featured in media from Oprah to NPR, the New York Times, WSJ, NPR, National Geographic, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Be part of a team bringing innovative leaders together from across the community to lead and ignite a movement to improve well-being on a significant scale—a movement that promises to help your friends, family, and neighbors live better and longer.

Blue Zones Worksite Well-Being Director, Konocti Unified School District (KUSD)

location: Clear Lake, California

type: Full-Time

Job Summary:

The Worksite Well-Being Director is responsible for the successful implementation of the Blue Zones Campus initiative to engage employees and key stakeholders to create a culture where well-being is prioritized and integrated into the daily experience. Success is achieved when employees, stakeholders and the organization operationalize the action plan/blueprint to improve well-being and meet the criteria necessary for KUSD to earn certification as a Blue Zones Certified Campus.

This position is a full-time, onsite role with a reporting relationship to both Blue Zones and the KUSD Superintendent for worksite integration across multiple sites and implementation of the blueprint. Standard days work/holidays will be in alignment with the school year and director level positions. Compensation commensurate with experience.

Cultural Alignment
Must be able to navigate in an education environment with a growth mindset, empathy, and flexibility to support KUSD staff well-being effectively. Knowledge of and demonstrated belief in the Blue Zones principles required.

To apply, send your resume and cover letter indicating the position you are interested in to careers@bluezones.com.

Essential Job Functions:

Lead comprehensive adoption and implementation of the Blue Zones Campus customized blueprint (action plan) over the next three years for sustainable well-being impact resulting in a Certified Blue Zones Campus.
Develop strong relationships with leaders and key stakeholders within the organization to encourage and maximize engagement for blueprint implementation, adoption of best practices, and achievement of well-being improvement goals.
Actively work with the national Blue Zones team and maintain momentum and advancement of the strategic plans within the blueprint.

Create employee engagement and communication plans with the support of the Blue Zones national team and drive successful execution, including delivery of programs and events that promote learning and adoption of blue zones principles.
Develop, track, and meet monthly targets to ultimately achieve annual blueprint metrics.
Compile organization performance/value measures and outcomes, validation for best practice implementation, and impact stories.
Partner with the local Blue Zones Project in Lake County to collectively advance well-being for all KUSD employees, students, and stakeholders.

Qualifications:

3 + years of experience in health education, worksite health promotion and/or wellness consulting

Bachelor’s Degree in health-related field; Master’s degree preferred. Experience in lieu of education will also be considered.

Director, Blue Zones Worksite Implementation

location: Remote

type: Full-Time

Overview:

Blue Zones is working with a variety of employers and organizations to operationalize the research from the original Blue Zones communities around the world where people lived demonstrably better and longer, with higher levels of life satisfaction and lower compression of morbidity. The worksite model leverages this research by integrating evidence-based practices through environmental design, impactful programs, supportive policies and strong social connections. The result is a customized, comprehensive well-being workforce strategy with sustainable impact on overall well-being and organization engagement along with positive business and health outcomes.

To apply, send your resume and cover letter indicating the position you are interested in to careers@bluezones.com.

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for leading the first phase (Foundation) when an organization engages with Blue Zones for a full worksite transformation strategy that ultimately results in being recognized as a Certified Blue Zones Worksite. In partnership with employer worksite leaders, the Director serves as the liaison between the employer and Blue Zones team through a discovery process that includes data collection, employer survey, focus groups, interviews, and onsite assessment which results in the writing of a discovery report and strategy recommendations.

Essential Job Functions:

Lead all aspects of the Foundation phase and discovery process in a Blue Zones Worksite on the path to becoming a certified Blue Zones Worksite.
Demonstrate strong leadership and listening skills to serve as the primary liaison between the employer and the Blue Zones team during the Foundation phase.
Collaborate with the Blue Zones team related to evolution and continuous improvement of the worksite model and discovery process.
Maintain a strong knowledge of the Blue Zones worksite offerings and employee well-being best practices.

With support from marketing, communication and other Blue Zones experts, writes a discovery report with strengths and opportunities that will result in a multi-year blueprint/strategic plan.
Cultivate strong relationships with participating worksite point of contacts and teams to maximize leader and employee engagement, adopt best practices, and achieve well-being improvement goals.
Research ongoing best practices related to worksite health promotion and behavior science.

Specific Skills/Attributes:

Experience deploying well-being programming at worksites
Ability to work effectively with all levels of employees from C-suite executives, to managers, to staff
Excellent oral and written communication skills; proficient at writing reports with an ability to summarize and integrate relevant data and information
Strong presentation and group facilitation skills
Self-motivated and ability to work remotely

Ability to prioritize work and deploy multiple foundation phases concurrently
Strong project management and operational experience to ensure timely goals achieved
Experience working in fast-paced and relationship-driven professions
Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google Worksuite
Inspiring, influencing, collaborative, and responsible
Energized by Blue Zones Mission with a personal practice of Blue Zones principles

Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in worksite health promotion, social/health science, and/or well-being or worksite wellness consulting
Bachelor’s Degree in business related field; Master’s degree preferred. Experience in lieu of education also considered.

Must be able to work in a fast paced, mission driven organization with a growth mindset and continuous improvement approach to support a growing business unit.
Knowledge of and demonstrated belief in the Blue Zones principles required.

Marketing & Project Management Coordinator

location: Remote

type: Part-Time, Contract

Overview:

If you have account management, client services, sales, marketing and project management experience and are driven to make a difference; if you enjoy interacting with people and are passionate about improving the well-being of others; if you thrive while collaborating with a strong, results-driven team and enjoy challenging yourself and others to find creative solutions, join us!

Be part of a team that’s bringing innovative leaders together from across the community to lead and ignite a movement to improve well-being on a significant scale–a movement that promises to help your friends, family, and neighbors across the USA.

Blue Zones is rooted in lessons learned from the world’s longest-lived cultures. We translate these lessons into sustainable environmental changes that strengthen social ties, reshape the places where people spend their time, and sharpen policies to support healthy choices. By engaging a critical mass of individuals and organizations to participate—from worksites and schools to restaurants and grocery stores—the small changes contribute to huge benefits: lowered healthcare costs, improved productivity, and ultimately, a higher quality of life. For more information regarding Blue Zones Project please visit bluezones.com/community.

To apply, send your resume and cover letter indicating the position you are interested in to careers@bluezones.com.

Job Summary:

The Marketing-Project Management Coordinator will support the Blue Zones Business Development Team, which is responsible for engaging our community partners to launch large-scale population health transformations (Blue Zones Projects) in their communities.

This is a remote, part-time contract position for 20 hours per week.

Essential Job Functions:

Proposal design and preparations
PowerPoint Skills
Marketing Materials Creation and Editing
Work with existing MarCom department on access and brand standards but dedicated to Business Development team only.
Client facing planning call management

Expense tracking for client travel
Coordinating follow ups
Community Event Planning Toolkit deployment and process management
Coordinating exchange of materials and share files with client
Project and client reporting
Scheduling and calendar management

Job Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field and/or full-time related work experience or an equivalent combination.
3+ years of experience serving in an account and project management role required.
Experience developing communications, media, and engagement strategies and measuring results.

Excellent communicator - verbal, written, and presentation.
Experience working with clients and external partners.
Position will require a COVID-19 vaccination or qualifying exemption.

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