NYC Health + Hospitals

Associate Director, Operations

NYC Health + Hospitals$110K — $130K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Social Sciences, Health Care, Physical Sciences, or related field with 4 years of experience; or a Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience.
  • Strong background in administrative, managerial, and consultative roles within healthcare or contact centers.
  • Proficiency in project or implementation management, relationship management, and vendor management.
  • Experience in Call Center Operations and familiarity with KPIs and customer service best practices.
  • Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, including presentation abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the contact for patient, provider, and clinical appointment inquiries in the contact center.
  • Communicate key performance metrics and their implications to administrative and clinical leaders.
  • Lead monthly or quarterly meetings to discuss contact center performance and related topics.
  • Identify opportunities for improving communication and performance metrics within the contact center.
  • Resolve appointment issues effectively while providing consultation to minimize errors.
  • Collaborate with leadership to enhance productivity and patient experience through strategic solutions.
  • Coordinate special projects, initiatives, and pilot programs to meet organizational objectives.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees working 20+ hours per week.
  • Retirement Savings and Pension Plans.
  • Paid Holidays and Vacation in alignment with collectively bargained contracts.
  • Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees.
  • Educational support including college tuition discounts and professional development opportunities.
  • College Savings Program available for employees.
  • Union Benefits for eligible titles offered.
  • Multiple employee discount programs.
  • Commuter Benefits Programs provided.
Full Job Description
Work Shifts

9:00 A.M - 5:00 P.M

Duties & Responsibilities

SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Associate Director, Contact Center Service Delivery will be the Contact Center point of contact regarding patient, provider and clinical appointment needs. This person will work closely with administrative and clinical leaders to collaborate on processes that impact the contact center. They will communicate monthly and quarterly key performance metric results with a deep understanding of how these items impact the broader system and what drives strong performance in these metrics. This role will also be responsible for ensuring successful roll outs of special projects, initiatives and pilots including bringing on new work within the Contact Center.

General Tasks and Responsibilities Include:
• Building and nurturing professional, productive and trusting relationships with facility leadership and administrators, internal departments, clinical leadership and the contact center team.
• Proactively identifies ways to improve articulation and communication of performance metrics and definition of success.
• Lead monthly or quarterly facility leadership meetings reviewing and discussing contact center performance metrics and other items of interest.
• Lead recurring meetings with both clinical and administrative leaders of projects served by the contact center.
• Resolves facility appointment issues and escalations in a timely manner. Serves as a consultant on ways to minimize risk of error.
• Assists with ensuring all supporting documentation and information provided to the contact center from internal partners remains up to date and educates these partners on the importance and impact of maintaining this information.
• Partners with facility leadership to create and/or uncover opportunities to improve productivity, efficiency and patient experience through strategic and creative solutions
• Collaborates with internal teams to address facility and contact center needs and initiatives
• Works in partnership with facilities to align efforts to meet the broader organizational goals
• Coordinates activities of projects, initiative and pilots to ensure that goals or objectives are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters, engaging resources and departments as needed.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners to implement new work and assimilate additional departments within the Contact Center.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by the Assistant Vice President, Contact Center Solutions or Sr Assistant Vice President.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications
1. A Master's degree from an accredited college or university in Business Administration, Engineering or Social Sciences, Health Care Specialization, Physical Sciences or related discipline and four (4) years of progressively responsible administrative, managerial and/or consultative experience and background; or
2.A Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university in disciplines, as listed in "1" above, and five (5) years of progressively responsible administrative, managerial and consultative experience and background; or
3.A satisfactory equivalent combination of training, education and/or experience. However, all candidates must have a minimum of a Baccalaureate degree in disciplines, as listed in "1" above.

Department Preferences
• Project or implementation management
• Relationship management
• Vendor management
• Call Center Operations and KPIs
• Customer Service
• Change Management
• Superior organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Strong interpersonal, written and oral communications skills, including presentation skills.
• Strong communication skills with an ability to build positive working relationships and the ability to anticipate the needs of the facility partners
• Demonstrate strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Innovative, creative thinking skills to ensure the organization is providing an exceptional patient, provider and clinic experience.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong MS Office Suite including Excel, Power Point, Word, Visio, and Project
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform
• Electronic Health Records System, Epic preferred
• 7+ years in internal and/or external customer facing roles preferable in healthcare or contact center
• 3+ years proven experience in a leadership role
• 5+ years Contact Center Experience

Benefits

NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
  • Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
  • Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
  • Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
  • Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
  • College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
  • College Savings Program
  • Union Benefits for eligible titles
  • Multiple employee discounts programs
  • Commuter Benefits Programs


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About NYC Health + Hospitals

NYC Health + Hospitals is a healthcare system that provides medical care to residents of New York City. The system was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in New York, New York. NYC Health + Hospitals has a network of hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities throughout the city. The system provides a wide range of medical services, including primary care, specialty care, and emergency care. NYC Health + Hospitals is committed to providing high-quality, affordable healthcare to all New Yorkers, regardless of their ability to pay.
Learn more about NYC Health + Hospitals
Size
42,000 employees
Industry
Net Income
-$500,000
5 Year Trend
-10%
Revenue
$7 billion

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