Chief of Staff

Overview

Overview of Role
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The Chief of Staff (CoS) serves as the direct professional extension and trusted right hand of the CEO, with a primary focus on advancing strategic priorities, strengthening organizational communication, and driving operational efficiency. Acting on behalf of the CEO as appropriate, the CoS helps translate vision into execution by coordinating across departments, preparing leadership for critical decisions, and ensuring follow-through on key initiatives.

This role does not replace executive authority nor function as a gatekeeper. Instead, the CoS operates as an integrator and facilitator, enabling the CEO and senior leadership to work more effectively together.

Description
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Overview of Role
The Chief of Staff (CoS) serves as the direct professional extension and trusted right hand of the CEO, with a primary focus on advancing strategic priorities, strengthening organizational communication, and driving operational efficiency. Acting on behalf of the CEO as appropriate, the CoS helps translate vision into execution by coordinating across departments, preparing leadership for critical decisions, and ensuring follow-through on key initiatives.

This role does not replace executive authority nor function as a gatekeeper. Instead, the CoS operates as an integrator and facilitator, enabling the CEO and senior leadership to work more effectively together.

• Strategic Planning:
• Assist the CEO in setting organizational goals, developing strategies, and ensuring that these plans are communicated and implemented effectively throughout the organization.
• Oversee the implementation of key projects to ensure timely completion
• Orchestrate and integrate activities in support of achieving strategic objectives.
• Partner with the CEO to define, refine, and operationalize organizational priorities, goals, and long-term strategies.
• Conduct strategic analysis, research, and scenario planning to support executive decision-making.
• Orchestrate and integrate cross-functional initiatives to advance strategic objectives.
• Oversee execution of priority initiatives and key projects to ensure alignment with strategy, timelines, and outcomes.
• Identify risks, opportunities, and emerging issues that may impact organizational performance or direction.
• Performance Management and Organizational Alignment:
• Assist the CEO in the timely implementation of WEA goals and ensure they are met in a timely manner.
• Track and report to the CEO key organizational performance indicators, assessing progress toward goals and the organization s overall performance. This includes reviewing select dashboards of information from Athena, Epic, Ceridian, financials and other sources.
• Support the CEO in tracking progress toward organizational goals and ensuring timely implementation. This includes reviewing select dashboards of information from Athena, Epic, Ceridian, financials and other sources.
• Monitor and synthesize key organizational performance indicators, including clinical, operational, financial, and workforce metrics.
• Ensure departmental activities remain aligned with organizational priorities and strategic goals.
• Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or misalignments, develop recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness, and follow up to ensure progress.
• Connect and coordinate work streams that might otherwise remain siloed.
• Organizational Alignment:
• Ensure alignment of departmental activities with overall organizational objectives.
• Identify areas for improvement and formulate, socialize, and then implement strategies to enhance organizational efficiency.
• Connect work streams that would otherwise remain siloed.
• Executive Decision Support and Advisory Role :
• Provide advice and recommendations to the CEO with a wide-ranging point of view, conducting research, gathering data, and analyzing information to aid in decision-making processes.
• Keep the CEO informed regarding local and national health care news.
• Work closely with the CEO’s Executive Assistant (EA) to manage the CEO’s schedule and coordinate executive-level activities.
• Create presentations and other materials for meetings such as Board presentations and town halls.
• Prep…