Director, Board Governance & Executive Initiatives

** It's more than a career, it's a calling.*
* MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

** Worker Type:*
* Regular

** Job Highlights:*
* ** _Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2025 - Becker's Healthcare_*
* ** _Named One of the World's Happiest Workplace 2025 - WorkL_*
* ** _Named One of America's Best In-State Employers 2025 - Forbes_*
* ** _Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 - Newsweek_*
* ** _Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Culture, Belonging & Community 2026 - Newsweek_*
* SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization's 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God's healing presence to everyone they serve.​​​​​​​

With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

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* Job Summary:

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* Provides direct support to Executive Leadership Team (ELT) member(s) to enable informed decision making, drive high performance, and develop deeper relationships within the team so that strategic/organizational priorities can be achieved. Ensures effective coordination of board business and activities, executive operations, and supports cross-functional project management. Ensures timely preparation of materials, effective management of priorities, and successful implementation of strategic initiatives.

Oversees and manages the administrative staff supporting the executive leadership team.

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* Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

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* PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Stewards, directs and coordinates governance activities supporting the Board of Directors, board committees, and executive leadership teams. Serves as a strategic liaison, facilitating between board members, chief officers, executive leadership, and key stakeholders.

+ Provides comprehensive support to leaders for meetings and events, including managing leadership team cadence, coordinating materials, documenting key outcomes, and ensuring deliverables are tracked through completion.

+ Manages timelines and deliverables for enterprise-level projects and strategic initiatives and works to improve existing processes for maximum clarity, efficiency, and success. Provides project management methodologies, reporting, and status updates for initiatives. Identifies risks, dependencies, and escalation needs affecting executive and board priorities.

+ Supports board leadership and executive management in carrying out governance responsibilities and strategic priorities. Manages internal and external communications. Writes an initial draft of documents for presentations, emails, and other communication pieces and sees revisions through completion of final documents.

+ Develops and maintains governance calendars, annual work plans, meeting schedules, and milestone tracking systems. Tracks board actions, follow-up items, executive assignments, and key decisions to ensure timely completion.

+ Ensures accurate documentation and timely preparation of meeting minutes, official records of board business. Coordinates preparation, review, distribution, and archiving of board and committee meeting materials. Maintains governance records, resolutions, committee documents, and historical archives.

+ Coordinates logistics and communications for board…