VP - Partner Operations

Location:

Avera McKennan Hospital

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Position Highlights

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

The Vice President of Partner Operations for the Avera McKennan region is a senior leader responsible for advancing strategic relationships, operational excellence, and regional growth across Avera's affiliated and independent health system partners. This role directly oversees partnerships within the Avera McKennan region and provides indirect leadership and strategic guidance for partner relationships across the broader Avera Health system.

What you will do

• Relationship Management: Serve as the primary executive liaison for partner hospitals within the Avera McKennan region.
• Operational Oversight: Monitor and support operational performance, quality metrics, and compliance standards across partner hospitals.
• Operational Oversight: Facilitate collaboration across clinical, operational, and administrative teams to ensure mutual success.
• Growth: Identify opportunities for expansion, joint ventures, and service line development in collaboration with partner hospitals.
• Development: Cultivate, develop, and maintain strong relationships with independent hospitals across Avera's markets.
• Board Relationships: Serve as a key liaison to partner hospital boards, fostering transparency, trust, and strategic alignment.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, developing, training, and retaining employees; planning, assigning, and leading work; appraising performance; rewarding and coaching employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Ten or more years of progressive leadership experience in hospital or health system management.
• Proven success in partnership development, operational leadership, and stakeholder engagement.
• Deep understanding of rural and independent hospital dynamics, healthcare regulations, and integrated delivery systems.

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Master's in Healthcare Administration, Business, or related field. (MBA, MHA, MPH).

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera's mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera's values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera's standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
  Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.
• Free health insurance options, for full-time single coverage on Avera High Deductible Health Plan
• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement
• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran Status, or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call or send an email to .