System Vice President of Mission and Ethics

SSM Health

8d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for developing short- and long-term mission and ethics goals and plans, ensuring alignment with broader organizational priorities. The role utilizes metrics and organizational vision to lead and direct mission and ethics activities. It serves as a member of the leadership team, providing strategic direction on mission and ethics related issues. The role requires working effectively as a team member in a dynamic executive environment within a matrix organization and promoting teamwork across the organization. The individual will demonstrate and impart the mission, philosophy, values, and vision of the organization in daily activities and operational functions. Responsibilities include providing project direction, leadership, and communication, managing workflow, and contributing to financial performance. The role involves developing and implementing programs to cultivate understanding of the organization's mission, vision, values, and core commitments, and integrating mission and vision across organizational and community health and benefit activities. Collaboration with system leaders to offer a mission/ethics perspective on major organizational issues, efforts, and initiatives is key. The position identifies clinical and organizational issues of importance to the organization's mission and values, developing responses, positions, policies, strategies, and educational initiatives. It ensures the existence of ethics committees and provides support in accordance with system best practices, serving as a resource for these committees. The role also involves ensuring appropriate staffing levels, guiding and developing staff, overseeing special projects, and leading the development of pastoral care services. Maintaining knowledge on developments in health care, theology, and ethics, and regularly informing staff on organizational and industry issues is required. The position maintains relationships with external constituents in health care ethics, formation, and theology, and contributes to the mission and ethics field through research, writing, and presentations. The role is based at the corporate campus, Mission Hill, in St. Louis, MO and is not remote work eligible, requiring relocation upon acceptance.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Moral Theology, Bioethics, or related field required
• Ten years' experience
• Five years' in leadership
• Health Care Ethics Consultation Certification preferred

Nice To Haves

• Doctorate preferred

Responsibilities

• Serves as a member of the leadership team providing strategic direction on mission and ethics related issues.
• Works effectively as a team member in a dynamic executive environment in a matrix organization and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrates and imparts the mission, philosophy, values and vision of the organization in daily activities and into operational functions, processes and environment.
• Provides project direction, leadership and communication.
• Manages workflow within department and fields client requests.
• Contributes to the financial performance of the organization.
• Develops and implements programs to cultivate understanding of the mission, vision, values and core commitments of the organization.
• Integrates mission and vision across organization and community health and benefit activities.
• Collaborates with system leaders to offer a mission/ethics perspective on major organizational issues, efforts and initiatives.
• Identifies clinical and organizational issues of importance to organization's mission and values and develops responses, positions, policies, strategies, and educational initiatives.
• Ensures existence of ethics committees and provides support in accordance with system best practices and quality expectations.
• Serves as a resource for ethics committees.
• Ensures appropriate staffing levels are maintained.
• Guides and develops staff and oversees special projects.
• Leads the development of pastoral care services in response to changing health care delivery trends.
• Maintains knowledge on developments in health care, theology and ethics.
• Regularly informs and updates staff on organizational and industry issues.
• Maintains relationships with external constituents in the fields of health care ethics, formation and theology.
• Contributes to mission and ethics field through research, writing and presentation for the benefit of the overall health ministry.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE)
• instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday
• upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members

What This Job Offers

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