Job Specific Duties

• Leads development of organizational strategic projects in alignment with the direction of the Office of the CEO for large complex projects, including new programs and adoption of new technologies and processes. Ensuring adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
• Works closely with the Chief of Staff to identify resource needs and helps leverage the Executive Leadership Team to ensure timely and sustainable implementation of NCHS strategic priorities.
• Creates an environment that fosters empowerment and engages stakeholders in the strategic planning and execution process to grow the organization's footprint and achieve financial and operational efficiencies.
• Ensures all aspects of strategic planning are translated into operational goals and tactics with aligned KPIs that support the four pillars.
• Provides direction and leadership in order to achieve the organization's philosophy, values, mission, vision, and strategic goals. Serves as advocate and spokesperson for the organization both internally and externally with regard to philosophy, values, mission, vision, and strategic goals.
• Serves as a primary point of contact for the Children's Hospital Association (CHA), participates in benchmarking processes, manages the CHA relationships, and leverages best practices to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborates with external partners, industry experts, and consulting practices and supports operational and physician leaders across the system.
• Reviews analyses of budgets and forecast data to determine department and division progress against strategic goals.
• Collaborates cross-departmentally with fellow senior leaders to analyze, enable, and execute strategic initiatives. Leads the execution of annual organizational climate assessment (OCA) process, and optimizes processes and systems that support the strategic planning process, including tracking of strategic initiatives.
• Builds and maintains, highly functioning, cross-functional teams of subject matter experts; works with and through leaders and teams to ensure all aspects of strategic planning are translated into operational goals and tactics with aligned KPIs that support the four pillars.
• Provides administrative leadership to assigned areas; ensures direct reports are well informed concerning plans and issues; works with operational and department directors to establish objectives and plans to support the strategic plan of the organization and monitors progress towards achievement of these objectives.