St. John’s is leading and inspiring a shift in society’s views of elderhood. Join our family of dedicated, talented employees who are at the forefront of innovative senior services delivery in this community. St. John’s embraces living every day by fostering a culture that is friendly, respectful, responsive, compassionate, innovative, and fun for both employees and the elders and residents that call St. John’s home.
If this description speaks to you, continue reading about the opportunity of VP Corporate Strategy Officer. This is a full-time 40 hours per week position on the Executive Team at St. John’s Home.
Position Summary: Supports the Executive Team by providing process, structure, oversight and coordination to Strategic Initiatives, Large Construction Projects, Corporate Compliance, and Corporate Policies & Procedures.
Qualifications & Education Required:
- Proven knowledge in corporate operations, compliance, strategic planning and risk management to command the respect of peers and senior leadership group.
- Experience in high level leadership roles with appropriate technical knowledge.
- Demonstrates multi-disciplinary project management experience with successful $5 – $15MM cost, scope/quality, and schedule responsibility.
- Committee/team lead experience, driving an action-oriented approach that results in continuous business process improvement.
- Masters’ degree strongly preferred in business or healthcare field or 7-10 years’ associated experience to successfully oversee and manage the efforts of a number of committees and projects required.
Core Organizational Competencies:
- St. John’s Brand Characteristics - Embrace living by being Friendly, Respectful, Responsive, Compassionate, Innovative and Fun.
- Teamwork - Actively participates. Assists team members; offers encouragement. Acknowledges/welcomes others. Keeps team members informed. Recognizes achievements and efforts of others.
- Job Knowledge - Consistently demonstrates working knowledge of all aspects of job. Remains current on job related changes and trends.
- Planning/Organization - Demonstrates initiative; plans appropriately. Uses time, materials, resources effectively. Organizes work to ensure commitment and priorities.
- Productivity - Consistently maintains high activity and efficiently produces acceptable volume of work. Consistently meets deadlines and commitments.
- Quality - Consistently produces accurate, timely work which meets required quality standards. Pays attention to detail. Sets high standards of performance for self and actively seeks continuous improvement. Provides elder-driven care.
- Reliability - Consistently delivers on commitments. Can be counted on to accomplish tasks without follow up. Available when required and can be counted on to help or assist when needed. Responds in a timely manner.
- Demeanor - Embraces change with optimism. Addresses concerns appropriately. Positively communicates. Good listener. Consistently maintains a positive demeanor.
Position Competencies:
- Knowledge and experience with design development, business process engineering, project management, procurement, contracting, financial management and strategic planning.
- Leads in maintaining compliance with all OSHA regulations and standards throughout all project lifecycles.
- Ability to facilitate a strategic planning process that establishes organizational direction and supporting initiatives and communicate that plan to internal and external stakeholders. Taking a portfolio approach to decision making by looking across all business entities to determine how to create the most value.
- Ability to shift focus on a moment’s notice to different projects, multi-tasker with strong organizational skills and follow-through discipline, with demonstrated success in a regulatory or government environment.
- Business acumen encompassing knowledge, skills, and experience related to various aspects of business, including finance, budgets, strategy, operations, and market dynamics.
- Proven capability at developing and mentoring project teams and committee members in the pursuit of high performance, business results, and customer satisfaction.
- Understand fundamentals of contracts and experience in managing contractors under the terms of a contract.
- Basic risk management experience to identify, assess and mitigate potential risks that could negatively impact the organization. Analyze potential impact of risks, develop strategies to minimize harm, and monitoring the effectiveness of those strategies.
- Advanced knowledge and experience with the use of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Ability to use Microsoft Visio and Project is also desirable.
- Demonstrates professionalism in handling information obtained in confidential, sensitive situations and investigations.
- Ability to prioritize, manage conflict and set clear direction in ambiguous situations.
- Excellent writing, communication, analytical and negotiation skills.
Position Responsibilities:
Reporting directly to the CEO, the primary duties of the Corporate Strategy Officer include:
- Facilitate the strategic planning process with the Executive Team and the Strategic Planning Board Committee.
- Manage the portfolio of strategic initiatives to meet or exceed the functional, financial and business objectives the organization.
- Serve as a focal point for all Corporate Compliance and HIPAA related activities by being responsible for compliance with federal, state and local standards and regulations as defined for a health care organization.
- Involvement in the risk management processes related to claims, lawsuits and litigations.
- Lead the certificate of need and grant application process.
- Build and maintain a diverse customer community comprised of town and municipal agencies, regulatory agencies, and multiple contractors. Must be able to collaborate internally and externally across multiple locations and businesses.
- Collaboration with board of directors, leadership team, project teams, project coordinators, managers and directors is critical to success.
- Serve as the primary interface with a focus on ensuring a smooth start-up and execution of strategic initiative/major project related activities and a seamless transition to operations for on-going maintenance and close-out.
- Lead in developing process improvement plans at the department level for any problem areas.
- Enhance organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; explore opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
- Other duties as assigned.