Administrative Fellow

Job Description

At UC Health, we're proud to have the best and brightest teams and clinicians collaborating toward our common purpose: to advance healing and reduce suffering.

As the region's adult academic health system, we strive for innovation and provide world-class care for not only our community, but patients from all over the world. Join our team and you'll be able to develop your skills, grow your career, build relationships with your peers and patients, and help us be a source of hope for our friends and neighbors.

UC Health is an EEO employer.

The Fellow position works closely with physicians, associates, managers, directors and senior leadership to assist with managing various aspects of hospital services administration while learning and cultivating knowledge relevant to the fellowship program. Fellows will assist in the creation of essential projects (e.g., accreditation, finance, operations, etc.) as it related to clinical services and hospital operations and will recommend, design, complete and implement a significant project relating to hospital services administration.

UC Health Administrative Fellow Webinars

July 14th (1-2pm)

Aug 4th (10-11am)

Sept 2nd (5-6pm)

Scope of Work:

• The Chief Clinical Office Administrative Fellow will have the opportunity to learn about all teams with the Chief Clinical Office. The fellow will be rotating through the Quality & Safety teams including Patient Safety, Accreditation, Infection Prevention, Clinical Effectiveness, Project Management, and Performance Improvement. Along with the rotations, the fellow will spend some time learning about physician privileging and credentialing through the Medical Staff Office and a high-level overview of the Physician Advisory and Utilization Management with the program Vice President.
• The CCO Fellow will be responsible for assigned recurring meetings, building agendas based on CCO leadership needs, running meetings, taking minutes and follow-through on action items.
• Projects will be assigned to co-lead or independently lead based on current system priorities. Projects vary including options of performance improvement, strategic project management, special projects depending on CCO team needs, etc. Expected to maintain organization of projects assigned, uphold project timeline, collect and at times present project related data and engage with identified stakeholders.
• While not an operations-based role, opportunity to engage with operations partners will be available depending on fellow's career goals.

Valuable Tools/Skills learned as the CCO Fellow:

• High-level overview of performance improvement methodology, specific to the UC Health Performance Improvement (PI) Way.
• Understanding and usage of PI tools i.e. Key Driver Diagrams (KDDs), Pareto Charts, Control/Run Charts, etc.
• Understanding and usage of Project Management (PM) tools i.e. Project Charter, Gantt Charts, Stakeholder Analysis, etc.
• Insight into Patient Safety processes, including the lifecycle of patient safety incident reports, Root Cause Analysis (RCAs) of serious safety events, etc.
• Introduction to external ratings and rankings governances (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Leapfrog, US News & World Report (USNWR), Vizient), regulatory readiness (The Joint Commissions and CMS) and infection control/prevention practices.
• Business operation processes i.e. human resource/people leader roles, contract system, budgeting overview, etc.
• Universal career skills learned: time-management, change management, stakeholder management, communication tactics, problem-solving & critical thinking, healthcare resilience/adaptability, reliability and professionalism.

CCO Specific Stakeholder Engagement Opportunities:

• Chief Clinical Officer (UC Health Senior Vice President)
• Vice Presidents of Quality & Clinical Effectiveness and Physician Advisory & Utilization Management
• Directors of Patient Safety, Accreditation/Policy, Infection Prevention, Performance Management, Medical Staff Office
• Director of System Operations – SVP Office (preceptor)
• UC Health Board Patient Care Committee

Minimum

Required:

Bachelor's Degree. | Minimum

Required:

Scheduled to certify, license or graduate within 12 months. Preferred Master's Degree

Application Requirements:
Please upload the following documents

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Personal statement by the candidate covering the reasons for being interested in the fellowship and how it relates to their career goals
• Letters of recommendation (3)
• Graduate and undergraduate transcripts

Final date to receive applications:
September 6, 2026 at 11:59pm

• Job Identification 23335
• Job Category Administrative Support
• Posting Date 07/01/2026, 12:07 PM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 3200 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, US
• For RN positions are you willing to accept New RN graduates? N/A
• Employer UC Health, LLC
• Cost Center UCH-701807-Dept. of Educational Placements
• Remote/Hybrid/Onsite Hybrid
• On Call Required? No
• Shift First
• Working Hours 40
• FTE 1.0