Vice President Facilities Operations Planning and Design Construction

The Vice President of Facilities Operations, Planning and Design Construction is accountable for directing and overseeing the health system's support functions including facilities operations, maintenance, and management; planning, design, and construction; real estate; and environmental services. This role collaborates with senior leaders and staff to ensure that the facilities and real estate meet the needs of the system and align to the hospital's long-term mission, vision, and strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Develops vision for operation and ensures alignment with organizational vision and strategy. Develops and executes long-term strategic plans for facilities management, real estate, capital construction, and environmental sustainability. Reviews and approves strategic plans, annual goals, and performance metrics for functional areas, ensuring conformity to the vision.
2. Directs maintenance, operations, and infrastructure of all system-owned and leased facilities to ensure safety, reliability, and compliance with regulatory standards. Ensures all facilities meet or exceed regulatory requirements and supports audits, inspections, and accreditation processes.
3. Oversees master facility planning, including integration of clinical, operational, and financial considerations.
4. Participates in leadership activities for the organization, contributing to the achievement of goals and objectives; evaluates operational performance. Creates organizational design for operation based on vision; serves as a champion of organizational culture, influencing culture change to support organizational objectives. Develops, implements, and maintains functions and services within the operation to meet organizational needs. Handles operational and customer service escalations for operation.
5. Manages communications to the organization on the vision, strategy, and projects within operations that carry significant impact.
6. Maintains effective working relationships with executives across the organization to drive performance towards the organization's strategic plan; builds and maintains relationships with external stakeholders and community groups to support both operational and organizational strategic initiatives.
7. Ensures consistent leadership presence by attending and actively participating in meetings and key functions across all assigned system locations to support alignment, communications, and operational effectiveness.
8. Assigns and reviews annual goals and strategic goals, provides work instruction (OTJ or formal training) and develops leaders. Evaluates performance of leaders, providing continuous feedback. Manages discipline and performance issues. Reviews and approved resource plans for function(s) within operation.
9. Carries overall financial management responsibility for the operation, reviewing and approving recommendations made by leaders.
10. Develops and implements broad operational policies; serves as executive sponsor on major projects for functional areas. Provides advice and guidance to senior leadership on the operational impact of strategic initiatives.
11. Ensures compliance against federal, state, and local regulations for operation.

Scope and Level

GUIDELINES: Guidelines are in the form of stated mission and vision for enterprise and legal and professional regulations and objectives.

COMPLEXITY: Work assignment is unstructured, and leader is responsible for establishing and directing the vision and objectives of the operation. Duties performed include operational and enterprise-wide planning; developing standards, priorities, guidelines, processes, measurement (evaluation) systems; implementation of production and performance management standards; and allocating resources. Work is strategic in nature.

DECISION MAKING: Employee is responsible for directing an operation that requires developing and implementing strategies, objectives, and policies; defining an enterprise-wide structure and required resources; establishing operational performance standards.

COMMUNICATIONS: Communication at this level is primarily externally focused. Involves establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with leaders and executives. Provides information and negotiates solutions to operational issues that have major consequences or long-term significance.

SUPERVISION RECIEVED: Responsible and accountable for driving strategy and achieving results for operation. Work is reviewed for the attainment of strategic goals, overall service delivery, compliance, and fiscal accountability.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION - Master's Degree

EXPERIENCE - Six (6) years of leadership experience

EQUIVALENCY - Bachelor's degree plus two (2) additional years of experience in lieu of Master's degree

Salary Information
Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $265,000 to $325,000

Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

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