Senior Director, Health Equity - 140921

The Senior Director of Health Equity will provide strategic leadership and operational direction to advance health equity across the academic health system. As a subject matter expert, the Senior Director will play a pivotal role in leading the integration of health equity into all aspects of the health system's mission, including patient care, research, education, and community engagement.

The Senior Director independently uses and applies wide-ranging experience and proficiency in organizational development, effectiveness, business process analysis, and strategic planning on projects that typically have organization-wide impact. Understands business needs and how systems, both technical and non-technical, can support those needs. Having wide-ranging experience, uses organizational development concepts and organization objectives to resolve the most complex issues with organization-wide impact and great political sensitivity, where analysis of circumstances and information requires an in-depth evaluation of factors. Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Is considered a subject matter expert of the organization and often recognized as an expert externally in the industry.

Key Responsibilities:* Performs complex and advanced situational analyses, understands past performance and determines present and future performance and/or resource allocations.
* Exercises wide judgment in selecting and developing methods, interventions and evaluation criteria for obtaining appropriate results and resolution of organizational effectiveness issues as they relate to advancing quality and closing disparity gaps in patient outcomes.
* Assesses highly-complex situations and prepares briefings and presentations for the CAO/ACMO, Health Equity.
* Works with clients, usually senior leadership and their staff, to identify and implement evidence-based or best practice solutions in quality of care for patients, health equity, community engagement, and culture transformation, in alignment with strategic, organizational goals.
* Provides collaborative leadership and consultation, strategic planning, design and facilitation, and high-level project management on complex, multi-faceted problems to achieve strategically aligned solutions.
* Maintains fiscal and budgetary responsibility, including oversight of external grants/gifts/awards/contracts.
* Oversees day-to-day operations of health equity programs and initiatives, ensuring effective execution of workplans, timelines, staffing, and budgets across multiple concurrent projects.
* Ensures organizational readiness and compliance with health equity-related regulatory and accreditation requirements (e.g., Joint Commission, state reporting mandates), including oversight of the data and reporting infrastructure needed to track progress.
* Leads cross-functional teams to solve highly complex organizational issues.
* Supervises and manages multiple team-members, including but not limited to, less experienced organizational consultants.

Required Experience & Education

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and seven or more years of relevant experience in healthcare or a health-related field (e.g., public health), including at least three years of professional work focused on health equity in a large, highly matrixed health system or similar health care setting, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Relevant experience includes leading clinical initiatives focused on improving patient outcomes, leading organizational transformation or culture-change initiatives, or leading large clinical, health services, or public health research project teams.

• Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to apply theories, methods, and frameworks to design, implement, and evaluate organizational interventions to advance health equity.

• Experience developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions or strategies to address health and healthcare inequities or community-based health initiatives with demonstrated impact and results

Skills & Competencies

• Demonstrates superior analytical, problem-solving, project planning, and implementation skills, including the ability to interpret and use data and analytics to drive quality improvement and organizational change, and to learn quickly, exercise sound judgment, and draw well-reasoned conclusions.

• Knowledge of the organizational environment and culture of academic health systems and large research universities to understand patient and partners' priorities, issues, motivations and constraints.

• Superior written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to facilitate, influence, and persuade people at all levels of the organization, through both logic and appeal to positive motivation, to drive and sustain change.

• Possesses superior relationship-building skills, with a track record of successful collaboration with internal and external partners, including community organizations.

• Demonstrates superior strategic-thinking and consulting skills, including the ability to lead significant engagements from inception to conclusion and to integrate health equity principles and programs across the enterprise.

• Ability to navigate organizational complexity, handle multiple constituencies, agendas, and competing priorities, and deal productively with ambiguity and conflict to find common ground.

• Incorporates excellent skills in change management on a regular basis.

• Strong leadership skills with a proven ability to manage diverse teams and build consensus across stakeholders

• Master's degree in Health Administration, Public Health, Business or a health-adjacent field or Doctorate degree in a health-related field.

• Seven or more years of progressive leadership experience in an academic health system or highly matrixed healthcare organization.

• Leadership experience at the director level or above, with direct oversight of budget, staff, and programs within a health system, academic medical center, or public health organization.

• Completion of a formal leadership development program (e.g., a fellowship, executive education program, or certificate in health care leadership)

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and expertise using the DMAIC process for data driven improvement

• PMP certification.

• Experience with health system data or analytics tools used for equity reporting (e.g., Tableau, EHR-based dashboards).

• Bilingual or multilingual proficiency.

• Experience designing or implementing equity-focused programs and trainings.

• Experience working in a clinical operations role.

• Experience with grant writing or managing externally funded research or implementation projects.

• Experience writing and publishing peer-reviewed publications or reports and presenting at regional or national meetings.

• Experience developing community-academic partnerships or memoranda of understanding (MOUs).

• Must be able to work various hours and locations based on business needs.

• Employment is subject to a criminal background check and pre-employment physical.