Administrative Fellow, Milwaukee WI

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.
• Becomes part of the work unit team to carry out assigned work.
• 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 by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building.
• 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 on a regular basis to discuss fellowship and to 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

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

• Midwest Locations (Two Fellowships): Greater Milwaukee, WI Chicagoland, IL
• Southeast Locations (Three Fellowships): Charlotte, NC Macon, GA Winston-Salem, NC (Wake Forest Baptist)

About Us

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.