VP, Organizational Readiness & Change Management

UF Health • Gainesville, FL

8h

About The Position

UF Health is seeking a Vice President of Organizational Readiness & Change Management to join their team. This role is responsible for establishing and advancing UF Health's enterprise change leadership capability to ensure successful adoption and sustainability of strategic, operational, clinical, technology, and organizational transformation initiatives. The executive leader will partner closely with senior executives, physicians, operational leaders, and enterprise functions to strengthen organizational readiness, align change efforts, and enable successful execution of the system's strategic plan. This role serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, providing the vision, governance, tools, coaching, and insights needed to build a change-capable organization while maintaining an enterprise-wide view of change capacity, readiness, and risk. The successful candidate will bring exceptional leadership, influence, and business acumen, with the ability to navigate complexity, build scalable capabilities, and drive measurable organizational outcomes across a highly matrixed academic health system.

Requirements

• Master's degree in healthcare administration, business administration, organizational development, organizational psychology, human resources, or a related field.
• Ten (10) or more years of progressively responsible experience leading complex organizational transformation and change management initiatives within large, matrixed healthcare or similarly complex organizations, including enterprise-wide operational, clinical, technology, and workforce transformation efforts.
• Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders, partnering with physicians and clinical stakeholders, and building organizational change capabilities at scale.
• Formal change management training and/or certification (e.g., Prosci, CCMP, or a comparable methodology).
• Exceptional ability to build credibility, influence senior leaders, and drive alignment across complex stakeholder groups without direct authority.
• Strong understanding of business, operational, clinical, and organizational priorities, with the ability to connect change initiatives to strategic outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of organizational change, stakeholder engagement, adoption, and readiness strategies in complex, evolving environments.
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, conflict-management, and relationship-building skills, coupled with high emotional intelligence and organizational awareness.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, assess complex organizational dynamics, and translate insights into practical recommendations and actions.

Responsibilities

• Establishing and advancing UF Health's enterprise change leadership capability.
• Ensuring successful adoption and sustainability of strategic, operational, clinical, technology, and organizational transformation initiatives.
• Partnering closely with senior executives, physicians, operational leaders, and enterprise functions to strengthen organizational readiness.
• Aligning change efforts and enabling successful execution of the system's strategic plan.
• Providing vision, governance, tools, coaching, and insights to build a change-capable organization.
• Maintaining an enterprise-wide view of change capacity, readiness, and risk.
• Developing leaders and teams through coaching and mentorship.
• Driving measurable organizational outcomes through pragmatic application of change management methodologies.

What This Job Offers

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