VP, Chief of Staff

Atlantic Health System•Morristown, NJ

11d•$343,687 - $475,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President, Chief of Staff serves as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the President and Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Health. This individual will serve as an enabler and force multiplier while being a key member of the executive leadership team. This role supports the CEO in advancing organizational priorities, driving enterprise-wide strategic initiatives, facilitating executive decision-making, and ensuring effective execution of the health system's mission, vision, and strategic objectives. The Chief of Staff acts as an extension of the CEO, providing leadership across critical organizational initiatives, coordinating activities among senior executives, and fostering alignment across the enterprise. This individual serves as a catalyst for collaboration, accountability, and operational excellence, ensuring that strategic priorities are translated into measurable outcomes. The ideal candidate is a highly effective healthcare executive with exceptional strategic, operational, communication, and relationship management skills. This leader must thrive in a fast-paced, complex environment and demonstrate the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization while maintaining the highest degree of professionalism, discretion, and integrity.

Requirements

Highly effective healthcare executive with exceptional strategic, operational, communication, and relationship management skills.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex environment.
Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Maintain the highest degree of professionalism, discretion, and integrity.

Responsibilities

Serve as chief steward of CEO's time and energy. Optimizes the CEO's effectiveness by helping him/her strategically prioritize and delegate tasks, ensuring the CEO focuses on areas that deliver the greatest impact and value to the enterprise.
Proactively and strategically manage the CEO’s calendar, planning well in advance for events, communications, travel, internal meetings, etc. as well as sufficient time for decision-making, strategic planning, and reflection.
Filter incoming requests, using judgement to discern which can be delegated, which require the CEO’s time and the relevant urgency. Ensure the CEO is informed and prepared with the information necessary for key decisions.
Regularly obtain feedback from the CEO on his/her time allocation.
Directly accountable to the CEO for the effective leadership of the Office of the CEO team and the execution of all relevant functions.
Lead and develop the team within the Office of the President & CEO, setting the standard for discretion, judgment, and execution.
Provide support and handles day-to-day tactical activities within the Office of the President & CEO.
Serve as a trusted advisor and objective sounding board to the President & CEO, adding value to his/her vision, acting as a strategic problem solver, and serving as an observer and perceptive partner of issues and culture further down in the enterprise.
Partner closely to develop, refine, communicate, and execute organizational strategic priorities.
Drive enterprise-wide strategic initiatives and special projects that advance the health system's clinical, operational, financial, workforce, and community goals.
Monitor progress against strategic objectives and key performance indicators, identifying risks, barriers, and opportunities.
Ensure alignment among executive leaders and departments to support achievement of organizational priorities.
Support business planning, organizational transformation, mergers, affiliations, partnerships, and growth initiatives as directed by the CEO.
Shape the substance and narrative of the CEO's major internal and external communications, including system-wide messages, town halls, and physician and community forums.
Serve as an expert on “voice of the CEO,” guiding and advising in the development of CEO or CEO-related communications.
Ensuring the CEO's voice is clearly captured and articulated while consistently aligned internally and externally.
Prepare executive communications, presentations, talking points, briefing materials, and reports.
Lead preparation for executive meetings, board meetings, retreats, and strategic planning sessions.
Conduct research, analysis, and synthesis of complex information to support executive decision-making.
Partner with the CEO to structure, run, and follow up on Executive Leadership Team meetings so that they produce real decisions and clear accountability rather than status updates.
Act as an honest broker among members of the executive team, surfacing disagreement early and helping resolve it without becoming a bottleneck or a shadow decision-maker.
Help the CEO calibrate how the executive team is working together, and raise concerns about alignment, capacity, or performance directly and constructively.
Partner with the CEO and the Corporate Secretary or General Counsel's office to ensure board and committee materials are substantively strong, strategically framed, and delivered on schedule.
Help the CEO prepare for board and committee meetings, anticipating questions and ensuring the Board has what it needs to govern effectively.
Track follow-through on board commitments and decisions between meetings.
Assist in maintaining productive relationships between executive leadership and the Board.
Support the CEO's engagement with community, civic, donor, and government stakeholders, helping prioritize the CEO's external time against enterprise impact.
Represent Atlantic Health, at the CEO's direction, in select external forums, coalitions, and partnership discussions.
Help translate the regulatory, reimbursement, and public-policy environment into implications the executive team needs to act on.
Build strong relationships with physicians, executives, trustees, community leaders, donors, and external partners.
Represent the CEO and health system in meetings, committees, and community events as appropriate.
Collaborate with government affairs, communications, philanthropy, and clinical leadership teams on priority initiatives.
Promote a culture of transparency, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
Analyze organizational performance data and provide actionable recommendations to the CEO and executive team.
Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and organizational performance.
Support enterprise-wide initiatives related to quality, patient experience, workforce engagement, access, growth, and financial sustainability.
Lead special projects and emerging priorities requiring executive sponsorship.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
Life & AD&D Insurance.
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
PTO & Paid Sick Leave
Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
Backup and On-Site Childcare
Well-Being Rewards
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance