Aisha Van Ter Sluis, Msw Email & Phone Number

Aisha has 12 years of leadership experience helping government, tech startups, philanthropy, and community based organizations center the people they serve. She believes everyone deserves public institutions they can trust. Her dedication comes from lived experience, and working to build a better public sector is her passion and privilege. This is reflected in both the deep partnerships she builds and her focus on results and impact. A builder and weaver at heart, she delights in helping diverse groups, from executives to community members, have the infrastructure and stories they need to advance equity and justice.Signature Skills:Strategic Planning | Relationship Building | Systems Thinking | Public Policy | Program Design | Implementation | Cross-functional Team Leadership | External Partnerships | Business Development | Account Management | Communications | Data and Policy Analysis | AdaptabilityCareer Highlights: • Served as sole Medicaid subject-matter expert for NYC Administration for Children's Services, including authoring nine sets of comments on proposed regulatory and practice changes. • Managed a three-year, $3.2M federal demonstration project that provided trauma-focused services to children and families in Washington D.C.• Designed and implemented a six-month, $1.2M effort that scaled a middle school coaching and tutoring program from one to 26 NYC nonprofits.• Developed and executed a partner management strategy for the national expansion of a benefits access product within 30 days of hire.• Influenced leadership of a public/private partnership network to pivot from building custom software to contracting with good-fit organizations offering configurable digital products.• Project managed a 50+ partner sign-on letter to ensure Affordable Care Act rules and regulations responded to experiences of young people served by foster care and juvenile justice• Led the proposal and selection process across a 100+ public/private partnership network for two digital products, which were adopted into the workflows of 26 nonprofits across NYC.• Executed the sales process to emphasize nonprofit relationship building, discovering root issues and real needs, qualifying opportunities, creating and delivering product demos, creating proposals and SOWs, and closing $2M in deals in two quarters.• Led account management from contract execution to product adoption for public sector portfolio of health care, local government, education, benefits access, and philanthropic partners.

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