President, Atrium Health Navicent

Status: Full time, benefits eligible

Hours Per Week: 40 (typically Monday-Friday days with flexibility for business needs)

Pay Range: $230.60 - $368.95

Responsibilities

• Provides overall leadership and accountability for operational performance, clinical quality and safety, patient experience, financial stewardship, and workforce engagement for the medical center(s).
• Translates enterprise, division, and area strategies into executable local plans, ensuring alignment of resources, priorities, and outcomes.
• Drives local growth, access, and service line strategy, including ambulatory expansion, site-of-care optimization, and responsiveness to market dynamics.
• Partners closely with physician and clinical leadership to optimize care delivery models, strengthen alignment, and achieve quality, safety, and experience goals.
• Leads operational and care delivery transformation efforts, including performance improvement initiatives, adoption of new care models, and implementation of digitally enabled workflows aligned with enterprise strategy.
• Maintains shared accountability for workforce strategy, including leadership reliability, labor sustainability, culture, and engagement, in partnership with enterprise functions.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory, accreditation, and organizational standards while proactively identifying and mitigating operational risk.
• Acts as the primary local integrator across enterprise services, medical staff, and enterprise leadership to ensure aligned decision-making and effective execution.
• Serves as the organization’s senior representative within the community, with boards, and with external partners, advancing trust, reputation, and community impact.
• Fulfills governing responsibilities related to several joint-ventures with physician groups and has matrixed responsibility for relationships with Navicent Medical Group and the Central Georgia Health Network (CGHN).
• Plays an integral role in realizing the Rewire 2030 strategy, focusing on access, academics, national service lines, and innovative partnerships.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, nursing, or related field.
• Ten (10) or more years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare, including senior operational or executive roles within an acute care hospital, medical center, or integrated health system.
• Experience demonstrating accountability for operational performance, financial stewardship, quality and safety outcomes, and physician partnership.

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex healthcare operations in an integrated delivery system.
• Strong financial and operational acumen, including experience managing budgets, capital planning, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Proven capability to partner effectively with physicians and clinical leaders.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to translate strategy into executable plans.
• Strong leadership presence, judgment, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced graduate coursework or executive education in healthcare leadership, strategy, finance, or organizational management.
• Professional certification such as Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) or demonstrated progress toward attainment.
• Experience leading within a complex, matrixed healthcare organization, including exposure to system-level initiatives, growth strategies, or transformation efforts.

Benefits

• Competitive base compensation with opportunity for annual increases based on performance.
• Premium pay such as shift, on-call, and incentive pay for select positions.
• Paid Time Off programs.
• Health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses.
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave.
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs.
• Educational Assistance Program.

Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.).

About the Organization

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.

The President serves as the senior executive leader for Atrium Health Navicent, with full accountability for translating service area, division, and enterprise strategy into strong local execution. This role ensures high-quality, safe patient care; exceptional patient and physician experiences; sound financial performance; and a highly engaged workforce. The President leads day-to-day and long-term operations, balancing strategic priorities with operational discipline, and acts as the integrator between clinical, operational, financial, and people strategies. Reporting to the President of the Georgia Area and the Atrium Health Navicent Board of Directors, the President builds trusted relationships with boards, community leaders, and external stakeholders while fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.