Market Director of Mission Arizona

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Located conveniently in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center is a 571-bed, not-for-profit hospital that provides a wide range of health, social and support services.  Founded in 1895 by the Sisters of Mercy, St. Joseph's was the first hospital in the Phoenix area. More than 125 years later, St. Joseph's remains dedicated to its mission of caring for the poor and underserved.

We are extremely proud to be a nationally recognized center for quality quaternary care, medical education and research. St. Joseph's includes the internationally renowned Barrow Neurological Institute, Norton Thoracic Institute, Cancer Center at St. Joseph's, Ivy Brain Tumor Center, and St. Joseph's Level I Trauma Center (which is verified by the American College of Surgeons). The hospital is also a respected center for high-risk obstetrics, neuro-rehabilitation, orthopedics, and other medical services. St. Joseph’s is considered a sought-after destination hospital for treating the most complex cases from throughout the world. Every day, approximately 20 percent of the hospital’s patients have traveled from outside of Arizona and the United States to seek treatment at St. Joseph’s.

U.S News & World Report routinely ranks St. Joseph's among the top hospitals in the United States for neurology and neurosurgery.  In addition, St. Joseph's boasts the Creighton University School of Medicine at St. Joseph's, and a strategic alliance with Phoenix Children's Hospital.

St. Joseph's is consistently named an outstanding place to work and one of Arizona's healthiest employers. Come grow your career with one of Arizona's Most Admired Companies.  Look for us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

For the health of our community ... we are proud to be a tobacco-free campus.

Reporting to the Arizona Market Vice President of Mission, the Phoenix Market Director provides leadership to assure the strategic and operational integration of Mission as a core business process. This leader is a member of the Market senior management team regularly influencing discussions and actions and serves the Market President in ensuring a mission-based, ministry-driven organization.

The Market Director, Mission serves a key role in shaping the growth and culture of the Market, a culture grounded in CommonSpirit Health’s core values of Compassion, Inclusion, Integrity, and Collaboration and expressed in spirituality reflective of the heritage and faith tradition on which CommonSpirit Health was founded.

Additionally, the Market Director, Mission serves as the Director of Mission for several of the hospitals in the Phoenix market. As a member of the organization’s leadership team, the position provides operational leadership, oversight and a collaborative spirit ensuring the hospital’s Catholic identity, mission, and core values are effectively communicated and integrated into all facets of the organization.

Essential Functions

• Act as partner for the Market President to ensure effective and efficient assessment and integration of mission throughout the market.
• Provide executive leadership and oversight for the Mission team within the Market.
• Lead and develop prioritized solutions and strategies for the integration of Mission.
• Ensure integrity of Catholic faith teachings and ethical principles in operations.
• Collaborate with HR in the oversight and implementation of culture development.
• Maintain regular contact with diocesan leadership and advise leadership of appropriate issues.
• Ensure provision of spiritual health care for patients, families, caregivers, and employees providing leadership in developing workplace spirituality initiatives, and engaging local faith communities in the health care ministry.
• Provide leadership and oversight of Ethics, Spiritual Care, Community Benefit and Community Health Needs Assessment/Planning procedures, Ministry Formation ensuring appropriate infrastructure and alignment with Market and Hospital needs and goals.

Minimum Education Required:

• Master level Required. Divinity or Theology preferable;
• Health Care or Business  Administration, Health Care Ethics or Bioethics, or a related field acceptable.

Minimum Experience Requirements:

• A minimum of three years of progressive leadership experience in a fast-paced transformative Catholic health care ministry having clearly demonstrated a combination of vision and energy with a solid track record of achievement in mission, spirituality, community health, advocacy, and/or ethics.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training:

• Ability to work collaboratively, garner support and trust, manage conflicts and champion initiatives related to mission and community health across a broad, highly matrixed, and complex organization.
• Familiarity with adult learning theory.
• Solid understanding of health care operations, corporate structure, and relationships; ability to delegate, organize and enable people to effectively accomplish their tasks; ability to plan, organize and implement.

We offer great benefits to support you and your family, including:

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance (no premium option for employee benefits)
• Flexible spending accounts
• Matching 401(k) retirement program
• Fully Funded Pension Plan
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Mental Health Benefit
• Employee Life Insurance
• Eligible for annual incentive pay based on company performance
• Relocation assistance if applicable
• Dignity Health now offers an Education Benefit program for benefit-eligible employees in Arizona. This program provides debt relief and student loan assistance to help you achieve your goals. Full-time employees can receive up to $18,000 over five years, while part-time employees can receive up to $9,000. Join our team at Dignity Health to take advantage of this amazing opportunity!