Administrative Fellow, Charlotte NC

About the role

The Advocate Health Administrative Fellowship Program is a one-year, post-graduate, project-based program designed to provide early careerists with broad knowledge of healthcare operations and strategic planning.

Responsibilities

• Manages diverse portfolio of healthcare projects and makes meaningful contributions to the progress and work product of these initiatives.
• Becomes part of the work unit team to carry out assigned work.
• Identifies and uses internal and external support resources to accomplish work goals.
• Offers information and perspectives regarding current trends and issues.
• Builds a broad range of healthcare management skills.
• Works effectively with physicians, administrative colleagues and allied health staff to promote the team concept of medicine.
• Directs or leads the work of others in assigned work group, task force or project.
• Sets up ways to continuously improve processes and outcomes and provide exceptional patient care.
• Studies and applies improvement methodologies including data collection and analysis, group facilitation and implementation strategies.
• Makes regular meetings with the leadership to discuss fellowship and report on progress of current projects.
• Participates in strategic planning processes.
• Gains an understanding of how the academic enterprise is a differentiator for Advocate Health.
• Attends state and national meetings pertinent to healthcare management issues.

Requirements

Licensure, Registration, And/or Certification Required: None

Education Required: Master's Degree in Health Care Administration, or Master's Degree in Business (Healthcare Management focus), or Master’s Degree in Public Health. Must be a graduate within two calendar years from a program accredited by either the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) or Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AASCB).

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required: Can professionally demonstrate: Strong alignment with the Advocate Health enterprise purpose, commitments and behaviors Ability to lead projects and/or people Excellent communication, organization and time management skills Ability to prioritize work assignments and use initiative in completion of tasks Ability to work well under pressure of deadlines, and remain flexible and calm in emergencies

Qualifications

Application Requirements & Process: Applicants must be a recent graduate within two years prior to the start of the fellowship (June 7, 2027) or fulfilling a one-year fellowship graduation requirement. Eligible applicants are graduates from a Master’s-level program or those fulfilling a fellowship requirement as a part of their graduate program in healthcare administration, business administration, or public health from a nationally accredited program and institution of higher learning.

Benefits

Major Benefits: Benefits Eligible: Yes

Hours Per Week: 40

Schedule Details/Additional Information: Administrative fellowship begins June 7, 2027 and ends June 6, 2028. Monday - Friday on-site role.

Pay

Pay Range: $34.00 - $34.00

Skills

Preferred Job Requirements: A completed healthcare internship(s) Work or consulting within the healthcare field Case Competition(s)

Advocate Health Fellowship Locations

This job will be assigned to a designated Advocate Health location in one of the following regions: Midwest Locations (Two Fellowships) Greater Milwaukee, WI Chicagoland, IL Southeast Locations (Three Fellowships) Charlotte, NC Macon, GA Winston-Salem, NC (Wake Forest Baptist)