Vice President Neonatal/Fetal

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Day

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Monday-Friday

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8:00 AM5:00 PMRegular

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The Vice President, Neonatal and Fetal Services leads the system-wide Neonatal/Fetal strategy and execution across Children’s including the development and execution of strategic, annual, and multi-year operational plans for Neonatal/Fetal, ensuring alignment with organizational mission, vision, and clinical priorities. Provides system-wide leadership to integrate clinical, academic, and operational priorities to ensure sustainable growth, program excellence, and national prominence. Serves as a key partner with Children's Physician Group leadership and external partners to advance shared goals in quality, safety, access, patient and family experience, and growth across the continuum of neonatal and fetal care. Provides the executive-level infrastructure to coordinate and elevate neonatal and fetal services across multiple sites while advancing a unified, system-level operating model.

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years management/administrative experience in a healthcare setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in nursing, business, or other healthcare related fields

Education

• A bachelor’s degree in business, or related field is required

Certification Summary

• No professional certifications required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to evaluate and prioritize capital investments (technology, facilities, programs) based on ROI, clinical impact, and strategic value
• Skilled in building and tracking service-line dashboards, KPIs, and scorecards to monitor performance and guide decision making
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with competing and shifting priorities
• Strong financial acumen, including service line P&L management, budgeting, forecasting, and margin improvement for cardiovascular programs
• Leadership presence and ability to lead change
• Ability to connect with patients, employees, and physicians at all levels
• Ability to build and maintain partnerships between clinical and non-clinical stakeholders
• Ability to align strategy and performance with broader system strategy and targets
• Must have outstanding business and financial acumen. Demonstrated ability to provide outstanding care while adhering to established financial parameters
• Advance analytical capability required. Able to act quickly, yet thoroughly, determine needs, cost/benefits, risk, and mitigations when presented with an issue or system generated solutions
• Ability to actively listen and adapt, solve problems, motivate, prioritize, organize, act with sensitivity, demonstrate positive behavior, time management, communications, strong values, and negotiation skills
• Ability to drive highly complex, cross-organizational initiatives through the influence of and negotiation with stakeholders who are at times who may hold competing points of view
• Ability to develop trusted relationships with senior clinical and non-clinical leaders, understand their strategies and objectives, and devise effective and efficient ways to implement programs that align to and support those objectives
• Excellent executive level written and verbal communication skills

Job Responsibilities

• Serves as dyad strategic/operational leader with Chief of Neonatology and all Neonatal/Fetal Medical Directors.
• Leads the system-wide Neonatal/Fetal strategy and execution across Children’s including the development and execution of strategic, annual, and multi-year operational plans for Neonatal/Fetal, ensuring alignment with organizational mission, vision, and clinical priorities.
• Manages and leads all partnerships with other entities (in coordination with CPG leadership) including the partner principles, structures, financial arrangements, and oversight to achieve optimal performance with other internal and external entities as designated.
• Provides executive clinical, operational, and financial leadership to ensure high-quality, efficient, family-centered, comprehensive care from fetal diagnosis through infancy.
• Aligns strategy and operations with Chiefs/Medical Directors, academic leaders, and perinatal partners across the continuum of care.
• Leads change management efforts, internally and externally, including development and execution of communication strategies, to support adoption and sustainment of key initiatives.​
• Builds and manage external relationships to grow referrals, regional partnerships, and market presence.
• Partners with clinical team, providers, and system leadership to evaluate and optimize operational, financial, and quality performance and to enhance Neonatal/Fetal operations, clinical excellence, and patient outcomes.​
• Manages Children’s responsibilities of the Regional Perinatal Center and partners with Finance to ensure the funding sources of the RPC.
• Drives top-decile performance in quality, safety, access, experience, and financial metrics, strengthening our national standing and recognition.
• Determines prioritization across competing initiatives to focus on the highest-impact, value-driven work and provides regular reporting on project portfolio status, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership.​
• Optimizes multi-site operations, including capacity, staffing, workflows, and technology.
• Oversees budgeting, capital planning, and performance metrics for Neonatal and Fetal Services.
• Recruits develop, and engage leaders, providers, and clinical and support staff to foster a high-performance, team-based culture.
• Advances research, education, innovation, and technology in alignment with academic mission.
• Serves as the key operational leader and partner in philanthropy efforts to support strategic and operational priorities.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.

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