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Thomas Jefferson University Administrative Fellow - East Region (New Jersey) in Voorhees Township, New Jersey
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Position Duration: July 2025-June 2026Job Summary:The Administrative Fellow will be part of a 12-month rotational program that has a focus on project-based work spanning across a variety of administrative and clinical areas including operations, finance, strategy, growth and innovation. This program will allow the Administrative Fellow to gain high-level leadership exposure while alongside hospital executives, building an extensive project portfolio and professional network. The Administrative Fellowship program educates, trains, and prepares future healthcare management executives by providing hands-on experience in healthcare administration in a large, urban-based academic medical setting. The Administrative Fellow collaborates with senior level administrators in identifying, planning and implementing process improvements relating to the care of patients. The Administrative Fellow has ability to contribute to Jefferson's operational and strategic priorities on a hospital, divisional, and enterprise level.Job Description
Essential Functions
- Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
- Collaborate with senior level administrators in identifying, planning and implementing clinical and administrative process improvements relating to the care of patients.
- Manage several programmatic initiatives through detailed project plans.
- Be a member of the Operational Excellence team and accountable for project management, leading change initiatives, tracking performance measures, and working closely with multidisciplinary teams to drive transformation.
- Attend meetings:Board of Trustees,Quality Committee, Management Update, Management Report Out, Operations and Service Improvement, Balanced Scorecard Champions, Graduate Medical Education, Ethics, Human Resources, Facilities Design and Construction, etc.
- Assist the AVP, Quality and Safety and other leads/managers as necessary.
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required):
Collaboration
To engage all members of the Jefferson community by promoting opportunities to work together. Take pride in listening, problem solving and building strong teams.
Project Management
Ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources, to achieve project objectives.
Healthcare Knowledge
Knowledge of the operating principles, major issues, governmental regulations, and code of ethics for the healthcare industry, ability to apply this understanding appropriately to healthcare related situations.
Data Gathering and Reporting
Knowledge of and ability to utilize tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data in a particular department or division of a company.
Clinical Performance Improvement
Knowledge of the factors contributing to quality patient care, and the ability to influence these factors in a positive way.
Healthcare Industry
Knowledge of healthcare industry's trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations and trendsetters.
Self-Directed Growth and Development
Understanding of the necessity of continuous personal growth, ability to gauge one's strengths, limitations and interests, and use of this knowledge for purposes of performance effectiveness and self-development.
Education:
Enrolled in or recently completed a Masters in Healthcare Administration (MHA), Masters in Public Health (MPH), or a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) Program.
Experience:
Previous exposure to a healthcare setting: hospital, physician practice, payor, ambulatory care setting, etc.
Work Shift
Rotating (United States of America)Worker Sub Type
RegularPrimary Location Address
2201 Chapel Ave West & Cooper Landing Rd, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States of AmericaNationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, p regnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
As an employer, the Jefferson Enterprise maintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.