Assistant Director

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides assistance to executives in a wide range of activities in the management of a hospital and/or medical center including such areas as hospital administration, total management and administrative systems, professional, medical, technical, operational and related support activity services.
• Affords assistance in the administration management of specified activities and functions.
• Collections and analyses data needed as a basis for administrative and management decisions relative to various hospital activities.
• Accumulates data for budget preparations, fiscal reports, and review of budget estimates.
• Investigates and reports on patient and visitors complaints and performs special studies and performs special studies and investigations on operational units.
• Prepares and develops informational data in hospital training programs, and participates in the development and updating of activity programs.
• Plans, directs, supervises, coordinates, controls, and reviews work of subordinate administrative personnel relating to assigned tasks and projects in hospital care administration, hospital management and related fields.
• Attends staff meetings, inter-departmental conferences and represents the Executive Director, as well as the departmental administrator at inter-departmental functions and programs.
• Implements new programs and projects and monitors their operation and effectiveness.

Minimum Qualifications

• A Masters degree in Arts or Science with a specialization in hospital administration, health care administration, administrative medicine or in public health when conferred for a program in hospital administration, from an approved college or university; or a Baccalaureate degree;
• One (1) year of administrative experience and background;
• An equivalent combination of training, education and experience in related fields and educational disciplines;

Department Preferences

• Knowledge of hospital administration and healthcare operations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities with the capacity to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to manage crisis situations, exercise sound judgment, and effectively resolve problems in emergency situations.
• Experience with or knowledge of the ICARE system is considered an asset.