Director, Governance Office, Michigan Medicine

Michigan Medicine is establishing a Governance Office to strengthen governance alignment, oversight and decision‑making across a complex academic health system. The Director, Governance Office will establish and lead the Michigan Medicine governance office.

In partnership with the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and board accountable leaders, the Director will design, implement, and continuously improve an enterprise governance operating system that enables effective oversight and timely, high‑quality decision‑making across multiple boards and committees.

This highly visible role serves as the enterprise owner of governance operations, standards, and enabling systems; the Director provides centralized operational support including enterprise calendar governance, publication workflows, governance repository/portal administration, meeting logistics and action tracking delivered through a combination of centralized staff and distributed partners.

The Director will work in coordination with and provide functional oversight and standards‑based direction to other personnel who provide board and committee coordination support for governance bodies within the governance office's scope.

Role reports to: Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Michigan Medicine

• In coordination with the CAO, stand up the governance office and lead the governance operating system across multiple boards and standing committees. Establish enterprise standard‑setting, prioritization and oversight.
• Governance operating model, standards and documentation:
  Design, implement and maintain enterprise governance frameworks which include committee and board structures, charters, decision‑right charts and escalation pathways. Develop and maintain consistent standards in support of the different board's activities.
• Partner closely with Michigan Medicine executive leadership, board and committee chairs and board liaisons to utilize consistent approaches to board structure and activities.
• Lead rigorous quality control of board and committee materials ensuring accuracy, consistency, completeness and compliance with standards; enforce deadlines and publication workflows to ensure timely leadership review and publication of materials.
• Own the integrated governance calendar and annual board planning processes, including coordinating schedules, management of dependencies to support efficient sequencing, escalation, and decision flow. Lead regular meetings with board coordinators and liaisons to ensure coordinated processes.
• Plan and supervise recurring governance activities such as the annual calendar, regular board and committee evaluations, surveys and effectiveness reviews along with governance policy and process improvements.
• Oversee governance processes for recruitment, nomination, onboarding and offboarding of board and committee members ensuring consistent orientation, expectations and documentation.
• In partnership with the Office of General Counsel and Compliance, define and oversee the corporate governance records approach, including the system of record, retention requirements, access controls, confidentiality protocols, and executive session documentation practices.
• Establish how governance items move across Michigan Medicine and University of Michigan partners and through committees and boards. Resolve conflicts, risks or other concerns to ensure efficient routing of information through the board approval cycle.
• Minimum of 5 - 7 years progressively responsible experience in leadership, governance, executive administration, health system operations, strategy, compliance/risk or related enterprise functions as well as demonstrated experience hiring, coaching, performance management and leading through change.
• Bachelor's degree is required, advanced degree (MBA, MHA, JD or equivalent) is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional work in a complex, matrixed organization and to influence senior stakeholders.
• Excellent executive level writing, facilitation and judgment including handling sensitive and confidential information.
• Strong operational discipline, project and program management capability and skill in…