Director of Health Equity and Belonging - The Exeter Group
Oklahoma City, OK
About the Job
The Director of Health Equity and Belonging will lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of strategies to promote health equity and a sense of belonging across the health system. This role is pivotal in ensuring that all patients, staff, suppliers, and communities served by the health system experience equitable care, feel valued, and included. The Director will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders and leverage data to address disparities, promote cultural competence, and foster an inclusive environment that respects and celebrates all.
This leader will work collaboratively with key stakeholders to design, implement, and sustain system improvements and programs that achieve our client’s Mission, Strategy and Health Equity goals. The role requires an extraordinary ability to partner with other leaders, entities, departments, and teams, while leading through influence to advance health equity for our patients, workforce, and communities, and to accomplish a broad array of cultural advancements that will promote and build a climate of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This position is strongly oriented toward establishing a collaborative, strategic partnership with the Executive Leadership Team and key stakeholders, including Board members and other external partners.
They will have broad and comprehensive experience in leading-edge theory, approaches, and accountability for enterprise-wide systems and programs as well as within the sphere of healthcare and health equity work. This role will require expertise in organizational change management, authentic leadership, and strategic implementation.
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership and champion a clear link between equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives and the impact on the organization’s overall performance.
- In collaboration with leadership, facilitate the development, execution, and communication of the health equity vision, value, and strategy.
- Develop and lead the strategic work for equity throughout the organization. Work with senior leadership to support innovation in organization practices that will leverage employee diversity in the workforce and identify areas of opportunity for improvement in delivering culturally sensitive, high-quality, equitable care and services.
- Develop and shape the equity strategy to improve patient care and health outcomes by advancing health equity, addressing health disparities faced by the patient population, and improving access for the communities being served.
- Provide visionary and strategic leadership, build awareness, create access, and promote cultural understanding, intelligence, and behaviors concerning equity practices.
- Interface with all levels of team members and leadership to create institutional alignment on equity strategies and plans that will drive change across the system. Ensure that equity strategies are being implemented and measured across the system.
- Partner with key leaders in Health Services, human resources, finance, marketing/communications, legal, compliance, government affairs, delivery system and new program innovation, and other areas to drive change initiatives throughout the organization. Develop strong relationships with these leaders to optimize and shape the organization’s equity programs and efforts. This includes training, educating, communicating, and integrating equity efforts in a unified manner across the organization.
- Envision, build, and accelerate health equity initiatives from concept to completion. Cultivate critical organizational support and buy-in, leading cross-functional work teams in the successful implementation of initiatives.
- Provide leadership to build awareness, create access, and promote cultural humility, understanding, and intelligence concerning equity best practices and desired outcomes.
- Recommend goals and measures and establish a reporting structure to document success. Use the results to inform and recommend priorities. Evaluate quantitative data, qualitative feedback, and observations to inform strategy, decision-making, and accountability.
- In partnership with human resources, standardize and share workforce analytics to routinely track and improve workforce representation. Additionally, ensure an effective diversity and affirmative action program is in place across the organization that complies with appropriate regulations and aligns with organizational goals.
- In partnership with the Chief Medical Officer, develop and maintain standardized processes to increase the capture and use of race, ethnicity, and other diversity dimensions across the enterprise’s patients and communities.
- Establish personal and professional credibility, gain respect, and build trust with senior leadership, peers, and their teams. Gain recognition as a collaborative and visible member of the leadership team. Champion the mission, goals, and values of the organization.
- Minimum 10 years’ related experience required, including experience in community health, public sector health, social service delivery systems, or Human Resources.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience managing people.
- Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Public Policy, Social Justice, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Human Resource Management, Psychology, Counseling, Organizational Development, or a related field preferred.
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in diversity, leadership development and/or organizational development as well as experience at the executive management level working directly with senior leadership.
- Strong experience in topics of inclusion, health equity and health disparities, social determinants of health, disability awareness, racism (how it operates at an individual and systemic level through unconscious micro aggressions and implicit bias), intersectionality, multiculturalism, social justice initiatives, and full participation.
- Experience in change management, data analysis, organizational leadership/development, supplier diversity, community relations, training, communication to diverse audiences and employee and physician engagement.
- Ability to reach a broad audience, which includes executive and board leadership, staff, and community constituents.
- Experience building a clear vision for the future of health equity within an organization, communicating it in a way that ensures transparency and inspires action and operationalizing it to achieve results.
- A proven track record of accomplishments leading the development and implementation of a multiyear strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion plan.
- Demonstrated in-depth knowledge and experience with DEI best practices, innovation, and strategies for counteracting the structural, contextual, historical, and current underpinnings of institutional racism, bias, and exclusion that have the potential to impact workplace dynamics and the provision of care.
This job description is designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job.
Our client is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, age, sexuality, or gender identification.