Chief of Staff to the President & CEO

Key Responsibilities

• Provide high-level strategic and operational support to the President & CEO, including developing and managing projects with specific plans, timelines, and deliverables.
• Manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail, quality, and deadlines.
• Provide leadership and oversight for corporate communications, ensuring messaging is clear, consistent, timely, and aligned with organizational strategy and values.
• Support internal and external communications related to major initiatives, organizational announcements, public events, media matters, community engagement, and executive messaging.
• Work with communications staff and leaders to develop communication plans, talking points, press materials, presentations, newsletters, web content, social media messaging, and other materials as needed.
• Ensure the President & CEO is well-prepared for public-facing communications, media interactions, community events, and stakeholder presentations; including involvement and coordination of state level government relations.
• Promote disciplined, proactive, and strategic communication across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree in business administration, public administration, communications, health administration, or a related field highly preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in executive support, strategic communications, project management or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects and coordinating across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive-level materials.
• Direct involvement in communications leadership including social media, digital media, analytics and progressive communication and marketing campaigns.
• Healthcare experience preferred.

Required Skills And Competencies

• Exceptional communication skills, including writing, editing, presentation development, messaging, and stakeholder communication.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to organize work, manage deadlines, track deliverables, and drive accountability.
• High proficiency in multitasking and managing competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong execution discipline, with a proven ability to move initiatives from concept to action, ensure follow-through, and deliver results.
• Results orientation, including a commitment to measurable outcomes, accountability, continuous improvement, and timely completion of high-priority work.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity while maintaining focus on priorities, progress, and outcomes.
• High degree of professionalism, responsiveness, and follow-through.

Measures of Success

• Effective implementation of key projects with measurable results.
• Organizational communications are timely, clear, coordinated, and aligned with the organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities.
• Internal and external messaging is consistent across executive communications, employee communications, board materials, media statements, community messaging, web content, presentations, and social media.
• Improved Meritus brand, increased social media engagement, improved organizational performance through marketing of Meritus services.
• Dashboards and quality improvement are managed with no gaps, including support of Baldrige deployment system wide.

Compensation

Salary range: $135,000 to $175,000 annually, commensurate with experience, qualifications, and organizational compensation practices.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance available starting the 1st of the month following date of hire.
• Life insurance, & short and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid Time Off begins accruing from day one.
• 401k plan, an education assistance program, and an employee assistance program.
• Shift differential for evening, night, or weekend shifts.

Caring for Our Team

We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees' well-being and professional growth. Additionally, we provide a warm welcome, hospitality-driven closures, and are always Happy to Help.