Betances Health Center promotes quality health care as a basic right for all regardless of the ability to pay. THE OPPORTUNITY Are you a caring leader who is inspired and compelled to ensure that all people are provided the basic human right of quality and affordable health care? Are you committed to the tenets of self-determination, empowering community members to build upon their assets and drive healthcare transformation for their community? Will you lead with a sense of urgency to take a highly successful community-oriented healthcare organization committed to equity to the next level with a spirit of confidence and optimism, building upon existing strengths while advancing new paths for growth? Can you raise money and build partnerships to strengthen the financial health of the organization and expand services and outreach? Will you promote Team-Based Care, building upon a patient-centered medical home with a culture that values equity, respect, diversity and collaboration? Are you excited and committed to serve as a national spokesperson, promoting the Betances model for others to benefit? If so, we invite you to keep reading and think about the untapped opportunities for you to make a lasting difference in the lives of others.
VALUES Betances is guided by its values of compassion, commitment, relationship building, excellence, diversity, and patient-focused holistic care.
SEARCH SUMMARY Betances Health Center ( ) - a dynamic, growing, highly respected and effective, comprehensive, community-centered health provider - is seeking an innovative, entrepreneurial, inspirational, and passionate strategic leader committed to ensuring greater health equity for its culturally diverse community, fully valuing and embracing the power of community while exercising the business savvy to get things done regarding the enhancement and expansion of services.
Betances seeks a CEO who is fired up and outraged by the injustice and inequitable services that all too often strip vulnerable populations of critical access to one of the most fundamental human rights: affordable and comprehensive high-quality health care. As a social justice champion, the CEO must share a firm conviction that everyone, regardless of socio-economic status, deserves the highest quality healthcare available and must lead with a sense of urgency to ensure this basic right for all.
The new CEO will take over an organization with an extraordinary record of achievement in its 54-year history. To build upon Betances' legacy, the CEO will possess strategic vision, entrepreneurial acumen, and the ability to manage and guide a complex organization in the competitive and transitioning healthcare marketplace, advocating for a diverse and underserved population that would otherwise have limited or no access to basic healthcare.
BASIC FUNCTION The CEO will provide the overall leadership, management, and vision for the agency, its programs, and delivery of services. In addition to overseeing day-to-day operations and activities, the CEO will assume the critical role of serving as an external presence and spokesperson - expanding current funding from public and private sources, developing new sources of revenue, representing the agency's mission, purpose and values, and raising its visibility.
Working closely with and reporting to the Chair of the Board, the CEO will ensure that Betances is fiscally and administratively sound and that its structure, technology, program development and implementation, financial planning, and operational systems are strategically managed with realistic goals and objectives.
It is of primary importance that the CEO provides the commitment, credibility, and passion for Betances' mission and the growth and enhancement of its services. The CEO will inspire and motivate staff, Board members, and constituents, and build on the established relationships that have flourished with city, state, and federal decision makers and funders in order to serve the most vulnerable populations. The CEO will have the trust and confidence of an involved and active Board so that the agency - its programs, policies, service delivery, and visibility - is enhanced and supported.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND PRIORITIES Internal Management - History - Get to know Betances' history, mission, values, culture, and constituencies. Understand its organizational structure, finances, programs, and funding sources.
- Leadership - Lead with an inspirational strategic vision that fully embraces the mission, while simultaneously and most critically keeping a finger on the pulse internally of day-to-day operations, services, and activities.
- Prioritization and Commitment to Outcomes - Organize and prioritize Betances' activities to most effectively fulfill its mission. Execute its strategy with a commitment to excellence across all operations and a passion for delivering measurable outcomes, which positively impact the lives of the people it serves.
- Programs - Know Betances' programs and appreciate whom the organization is serving, how its programs are structured and funded, how performance is measured, how money is being spent, and what it costs to ensure and deliver quality services efficiently. Ensure existing programs are consistent with Betances' goals and financially sustainable. Ensure patient and staff safety through reviewing and revising policies and procedures and regulatory compliance. Oversee the preparation and successful completion of audits and inspections from HRSA, NYSDOH and other agencies.
- Strengthening Infrastructure and Operations - Oversee the financial status of the organization, including developing long-term and short-range financial plans, monitoring the budget, meeting regulatory requirements, and ensuring sound financial controls are in place. Seek new financial resources that support Betances, including but not limited to development efforts. Ensure the delivery of high-quality services while managing for current and future growth. Set financial priorities accurately to ensure the organization is operating in a manner that supports the provision of services and the needs of the staff. Evaluate programs with an eye toward balancing fiscal realities with the organizational mission. Hold self and the organization to the highest levels of transparency, integrity, and accountability. Oversee transition to new headquarters building.
- Staff - Attract, build, and lead a highly motivated, competent, culturally diverse, and multilingual team engaged in a transformation effort with a common vision, sense of purpose, and shared objectives. Manage and evaluate staff, setting benchmarks and holding them accountable. Cultivate, support, and maintain a collaborative team of diverse and inclusive executive staff to whom leadership of Betances' organizational functions is delegated to. Facilitate cross-departmental collaboration and strengthen internal communication with staff throughout the agency to foster cohesiveness. Create a positive, multicultural work environment that supports consistency throughout Betances' operations. Continuously improve and strengthen organizational capacities and capabilities; evaluate organizational structure and roles as necessary to determine if they best serve the longer-term needs of Betances. Position Betances to be the employer of choice.
External Representative - Resource Development - Develop a solid understanding of Betances' funding models and strategies. Grow and broaden a sound and diversified funding base. Ensure existing government funding stream is maintained and strengthened. Grow and build a fundraising event and increase foundation grant funding. Anticipate funding trends and remain ahead of the curve.
- Public Role and Relationship Building - Serve as a very visible spokesperson and ambassador for Betances. Engage and coalesce stakeholders around the mission and provide leadership in an effort to raise profile and attract resources. Act as an advocate, within the public and private sectors, for issues relevant to Betances, its services and constituencies. Establish and maintain relationships with other providers and institutions, national/state/local organizations, government offices, and other community agencies to advocate and build collaborations that expand services to the underserved and uninsured. Strategically position Betances with its external constituents and the media as a leader, model, and go-to organization for effectiveness providing high-quality medical services to underserved populations. Maintain and build community partnerships to improve access and maximize resources. Seek new strategic alliances to promote Betances' mission and work.
Board Relationship - Board Relations - Cultivate a strong and transparent working relationship with the Board based on trust and confidence, and ensure open communication about the measurement of financial, programmatic, and impact performance against stated milestones and goals. Forge relationships that will bring forth their best ideas and efforts in support of Betances' activities. Help attract and recruit diverse and inclusive Board members.
- Strategic Planning - In concert with the Board and executive staff, develop, support, manage, and implement the strategic plan (both short-term and long-term goals and objectives) while ensuring that the budget, staff . click apply for full job details