Advocate Health Care

Director Social Health Operations

Advocate Health Care • $114K — $171K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, public health, social work, business administration, or a related field
  • Minimum seven years of experience in healthcare operations or community health
  • Three years management-level experience in operational initiatives
  • Knowledge of social drivers of health and referral operations
  • Ability to translate strategy into operational plans

Responsibilities

  • Design and manage Social Health operations, including referral support and workflow infrastructure
  • Coach and develop team members; align objectives with enterprise priorities
  • Lead social health initiatives by coordinating across multiple operational areas
  • Translate enterprise strategy into functional operating plans and workflows
  • Oversee governance routines and performance tracking for operations
  • Develop enterprise reporting and performance reviews for visibility into key initiatives
  • Engage stakeholders in promoting awareness and understanding of Social Health programs

Benefits

  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, and vision
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
  • Family benefits like adoption assistance and paid parental leave
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match
  • Educational Assistance Program
Full Job Description
Department:

12153 Enterprise Corporate - Social Drivers of Health Strategy & Integration

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Not applicable

Pay Range:
$54.90 - $82.35

Major Responsibilities:

Designs and directs the work of assigned Social Health Operations areas, including referral operations support, CHW workflow infrastructure, operational education, community resource connectivity, and implementation support.

Selects, coaches, and develops team members, sets objectives aligned with enterprise Social Health priorities, manages performance, supports succession planning, and creates processes for feedback, recognition, and performance improvement.

Serves as the enterprise operational lead for Social Health initiatives by coordinating activities across Social Health Operations, Social Health Interventions, Community Health Worker programs, virtual care functions, clinical screening efforts, and other enterprise stakeholders to ensure alignment, accountability, communication, and successful execution of enterprise priorities.

Translates enterprise Social Health strategy into functional operating plans, standards, workflows, playbooks, and adoption plans that support consistent execution across state divisions and markets.

Leads governance and performance routines for assigned operational domains, including issue escalation, decision tracking, implementation readiness, standard work maintenance, and progress reporting against enterprise goals.

Develops and coordinates enterprise reporting, executive updates, governance materials, and performance reviews related to Social Health priorities, ensuring leaders have visibility into key initiatives, risks, progress, outcomes, and operational needs.

Partners with Information Technology, Clinical Informatics, Analytics, Community Health, Care Management, state division leaders, operations, training teams, and vendors to implement and optimize Social Health workflows, referral tools, resource directories, and closed-loop referral processes.

Coordinates enterprise Social Drivers of Health screening and referral initiatives by partnering with clinical, operational, population health, care management, informatics, and Social Health leaders to support implementation, alignment, performance monitoring, issue resolution, executive reporting, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Directs operational improvement initiatives to increase referral completion, strengthen closed-loop performance, improve resource visibility, reduce workflow variation, and address barriers identified through data, teammate feedback, and stakeholder input.

Oversees development and delivery of education, onboarding, super-user structures, communications, and change management resources that support adoption of Social Health tools and workflows across assigned areas.

Leads enterprise communication and stakeholder engagement efforts that promote awareness of Social Health programs, screening and referral initiatives, operational priorities, enterprise expectations, and key program outcomes across clinical, operational, and executive stakeholder groups.

Develops and/or recommends operating and capital budgets for assigned areas of responsibility and controls expenditures within approved budget objectives.

Responsible for understanding and adhering to the organization's Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that people actions, and the actions of employees supervised, comply with the policies, regulations, and laws applicable to the organization's business.

Education

Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, public health, social work, business administration, health services, or related field.

Certification / Registration / License

None required.

Work Experience Typically requires seven or more years of experience in healthcare operations, population health, social care, community health, care management, health equity, or related field, including three or more years of management-level experience and responsibility for complex operational initiatives.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

Knowledge of social drivers of health, referral operations, CHW workflow infrastructure, community resource networks, healthcare operations, performance improvement, change management, stakeholder engagement, data-informed decision making, team leadership, and project or program management. Ability to translate strategy into operational plans, lead through influence, manage competing priorities, and drive consistent execution across a matrixed environment.

Preferred Job Requirements:

Education Master's degree in public health, healthcare administration, social work, business administration, or related field.

Certification / Registration / License

Lean, Six Sigma, Project Management Professional (PMP), change management, or similar certification preferred.

Experience

Experience leading Social Health, SDOH, community health, CHW, population health, care management, or health equity operations in a large integrated health system. Experience implementing enterprise workflows, referral platforms, resource navigation tools, or closed-loop referral processes.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

Advanced ability to build operational infrastructure, lead managers or senior professionals, run governance routines, manage stakeholder relationships, interpret performance data, and guide medium- to long-term functional plans.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

Operates in a professional office and healthcare environment. Requires prolonged periods of sitting, computer use, virtual meetings, and communication with internal and external stakeholders. Periodic travel to system, division, market, and community locations may be required.

DISCLAIMER

All responsibilities and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities to be performed by an employee occupying this job or position. Employees must follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by their leaders.

Compensation
  • Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
  • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
  • Incentive pay for select positions
  • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance


Benefits and more
  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Health and welfare benefits such as 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.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Illinois. The organization is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois, with more than 500 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $1.6 billion in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2019.
Learn more about Advocate Health Care
Size
75,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1976

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