Restorative Practices Lead

Fairview Health Services • Minneapolis, MN

23h

About The Position

Provide direct support, training, leadership development, and capacity-building to the organization. This position integrates restorative principles and practices into the workflows, culture, and structures of a large healthcare organization, as well as for its relationships with surrounding communities. This role will require deep expertise and demonstrated knowledge of restorative practices, content design principles, process thinking, program and project management, leadership development, interpersonal effectiveness, and excellent verbal and written communication skills. This role is responsible for articulating program strategy to achieve the business and systems-change objectives, create and oversee execution structure for the program, clarify business impact and coordinate underlying projects to attain their combined benefits for the program.

Requirements

• Formal training or education in restorative practices and principles, such as a higher education degree, certification, formal training, or internship. Applicants must provide evidence of at least 20 hours of structured instruction in restorative practices.
• 5 years experience in restorative principles and practice, including but not limited to items listed in preferred qualifications section.
• 5 years experience in systems change, including but not limited to items listed in preferred qualifications section.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Arts in Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding or
• Master of Arts in Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding or
• Bachelor of Science in a clinical or health-related field from an accredited institution or
• Master of Science in a clinical or health-related field from an accredited institution
• Demonstrated Leadership: Progressive leadership roles advancing restorative justice programs and initiatives that deliver measurable impact, or
• Community Engagement & Cultural Competence: Experience working with diverse populations and cultures, fostering inclusion and equity through restorative approaches, or
• Circle Facilitation & Structure Development: Skilled in leading listening and talking circles for underrepresented groups and creating organizational structures to support circle processes, or
• Integration of Restorative Practices: Proven ability to embed restorative principles within organizational workflows, culture, and systems to drive sustainable change, or
• Expertise in Restorative & Trauma-Informed Practices: Deep knowledge and hands-on experience initiating restorative efforts in community settings, including development and project management of trauma-informed, restorative justice best practices, or
• Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration: Proven ability to assess stakeholders, foster buy-in, remove barriers, generate collaborative ideas, and build effective partnerships and solutions across diverse groups, or
• Strategic Leadership & Systems Thinking: Demonstrated skill in developing and executing strategies that align people, processes, and systems; navigating complex, matrixed organizations; and creating structures to support execution and outcomes, or
• Change Management & Organizational Transformation: Experience designing and facilitating change management strategies, driving culture transformation initiatives, and challenging the status quo to identify opportunities for improvement, or
• Policy & Process Development: Expertise in creating and implementing policies, workflows, and equity-focused frameworks to achieve lasting systemic change, or
• Data-Driven & Resource-Aligned Decision Making: Ability to use data to identify and address systemic barriers, and apply financial stewardship principles to align resources with systemic change goals for sustainable impact, or
• Clinical care delivery and operations experience, including but not limited to leading quality improvement efforts, identifying clinical opportunities to improve access, patient care outcomes, and experience, or reduce disparities, or
• Understanding of the culture of clinical care delivery and the levers for change with frontline clinical staff.

Responsibilities

• Develop, lead and oversee strategic restorative practices initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and systems-change objectives, especially those impacting historically underrepresented and underserved communities.
• Ensure alignment between restorative justice work and other organizational priorities for a cohesive overall experience.
• Oversee program implementation to meet or exceed agreed-to time frames and performance measures.
• Steward an inclusive climate, identifying opportunities to incorporate diverse perspectives and voices to create a learning environment founded on principles of anti-racism and social justice.
• Oversee change acceptance strategies and sustainability plans for key initiatives.
• Ensure program effectiveness is measured through data collection, analysis, and reporting. Create and track project plans, submit all program documentation and enter demographic, attendance, case notes.
• Develop and articulate program strategy and execution plan in terms of program outcomes required to achieve the business objective.
• Define program execution structure, including component projects, teams and methodologies and project management requirements.
• Organizing program logistics and developing partnerships. Lead collaborative efforts with team and surrounding communities with a focus on addressing racial and other health and healthcare disparities.
• Build restorative mindset and skills for the organization and community partners.
• Provide coaching, professional development, and capacity-building relating to restorative practices for staff, providers, and community partners.

Benefits

• Fairview offers a generous benefit package including but not limited to medical, dental, vision plans, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, PTO and Sick and Safe Time, tuition reimbursement, retirement, early access to earned wages, and more!
• Please follow this link for additional information: https://www.fairview.org/careers/benefits/noncontract

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees