Director, Special Projects

The Special Projects Director carries significant responsibility for managing and executing key partner initiatives with impacts across Seattle Children's operational, clinical, financial, and partnership activities. The Director reports to the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and works closely with SCH senior leadership (e.g., CFO, CSO, CPE, CMO, CQO,etc.) and other key stakeholders and is accountable for execution of significant initiatives across the organization.

This individual will be relied upon to synthesize subject matter expert inputs to formulate a cohesive organizational recommendation to leadership. This position supports SCH leadership in analyzing, developing, and implementing strategic initiatives and relationships with high institutional impact. Identifies, gains alignment, obtains approval and resolution of highly complex or unusual problems, and serves as the program director, as needed, during the planning and implementation of selected strategies and tactics.

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration, or healthcare related field.

Minimum eight years working in complex health care setting.

Minimum five years experience working with partner or external organizations.

Demonstrated successful experience working with executive team, third party providers, governmental agencies, health plans, external vendors, consultants and other purchased services.

Experience working with and managing cross-functional teams, including joint leadership committees, to accomplish shared goals.

Experience reporting and presenting to executives and other key stakeholders.

Demonstrated ability to collaborate across internal and external stakeholders in a highly matrixed environment to advance organizational priorities.

Institutional understanding of decision making processes and ability to navigate ambiguity to achieve organizational goals and deliverables.

Professional presence with executive leadership, internal stakeholders and partners.

Required Credentials

PMP

Preferred

Master’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration or healthcare related field.

Vast working knowledge and expertise in leading complex change management in an multifaceted organizational setting.

General knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, CPI and or Kaizen.

About Us

Hope. Care. Cure. These three simple words capture what we do at Seattle Children’s – to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible.  Are you ready to engage with a mission-driven organization that is life-changing to many, and touches the hearts of all? #HOPECARECURE

Our founding promise to the community is as valid today as it was over a century ago: we will care for all children in our region, regardless of the families’ ability to pay. Together, we deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research, and serve as the pediatric and adolescent, academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho – the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country.

U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Seattle Children’s among the nation’s best children’s hospitals. For more than a decade, Seattle Children’s has been nationally recognized in key specialty areas. We are honored to be one of the nation’s very best places to care for children and the top-ranked pediatric hospital in Washington and the Pacific Northwest.

As a Magnet designated institution, we recognize the importance of hiring and developing great talent to provide best-in-class care to the patients and families we serve. Our organizational DNA takes form in our core values: Compassion, Excellence, Integrity, Collaboration, Equity and Innovation.

Whether it’s delivering frontline care to our patients in a kind and caring manner, practicing the highest standards of quality and safety, or being relentlessly curious as we work towards eradicating childhood diseases, these values are the fabric of our culture and community. The future starts here.

Our Commitment

Seattle Children’s welcomes people of all experiences, backgrounds, and thoughts as this is what drives our spirit of inquiry and allows us to better connect with our patients and families. Our organization recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes based on merit without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability,

or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

The people who work at Seattle Children’s are members of a community that seeks to respect and celebrate all the qualities that make each of us unique. Each of us is empowered to be ourselves.

Seattle Children’s is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Workplace and Affirmative Action Employer.