Senior Vice President Chief Administrative Officer

St. Joseph's Health • Paterson, NJ

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About The Position

The Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) serves as the principal integrating executive across administrative, operational, and organizational functions, ensuring enterprise-wide alignment and execution of strategic priorities. The CAO provides direct executive leadership (solid-line: full accountability for strategy and outcomes) to Government Relations, Marketing and Communications, and General Counsel, achieving results through functional leaders by setting direction, strengthening leadership, and driving performance against enterprise objectives. The CAO also serves as the enterprise leader for organizational project oversight, establishing frameworks that ensure major initiatives are prioritized, well-governed, and effectively executed. The CAO works across all functions to connect efforts, manage dependencies, and drive disciplined execution of strategic initiatives without assuming day-to-day operational ownership. As a senior advisor to the CEO and key member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), the CAO acts as a central coordinating leader, bringing together clinical, operational, and administrative perspectives to advance institutional priorities. On selected projects and initiatives, the CEO may extend review, oversight, or decision-making authority to the CAO as organizational needs evolve. The role requires a highly collaborative executive who operates through experienced leaders, builds organizational capability, and translates strategy into coordinated action with measurable results.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 10 – 15 years of progressive executive leadership experience within healthcare administration, hospital operations or similarly complex organizational environments required.
• Experience managing multi-department operational oversight, strategic planning and organizational transformation initiatives required.
• Strong financial, operational and leadership acumen required.
• Extensive knowledge of hospital operations, healthcare regulations, accreditation standards and administrative leadership practices.
• Strong executive presence with exceptional interpersonal, communication and relationship-building skills.
• Proven ability to lead operational improvement initiatives.
• Strong analytical, strategic planning and problem-solving capacities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead with professionalism, integrity, discretion and accountability.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Public Administration or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct executive leadership to Government Relations, Marketing and Communications, and General Counsel.
• Serve as the enterprise leader for organizational project oversight, establishing frameworks for prioritization, governance, and execution of major initiatives.
• Connect efforts across functions, manage dependencies, and drive disciplined execution of strategic initiatives.
• Act as a central coordinating leader, bringing together clinical, operational, and administrative perspectives to advance institutional priorities.
• Operate through experienced leaders, build organizational capability, and translate strategy into coordinated action with measurable results.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive