Executive Director

Summary: This employee is responsible for daily operations of the Southeast South Dakota Area Health Education Center (SESD AHEC), working closely with SESD AHEC Board of Directors to develop and implement strategic plans to meet the Mission, Vision, and Values of the organization. This employee will ensure programs and projects are managed in a fiscally responsible manner to meet specific grant and programmatic requirements. Employee is responsible for identified outcomes related to grant/program requirements. Responsibilities include maintaining excellence in quality of services provided, ensuring all Federal, State, and local laws are observed. The Executive Director is responsible for ensuring the SESD AHEC maintains a strong financial position to ensure the sustainability of the organization.Education/Licensure: Masters degree in healthcare administration or business, or commensurate experience in business and/or healthcare. Continuing education is required to stay abreast of healthcare trends, sales, marketing, and regulatory changes.Experience: Prefer individual with a variety of experiences in healthcare, grant writing, business or administrative and sales-related settings. Individual should have management experience. Individual must be computer literate and be able to use Quickbooks, and Microsoft products including Excel. Excellent public speaking skills required.Skills/Abilities: Individual must have strong oral and written communication skills. Requires ability to read and interpret documents, correspondence, contracts, and manuals. Individual must be organized and have the ability to take a project from inception to completion. Individual must be able to speak effectively before groups of stakeholders or employees of the organization. Individual will have the ability to use basic and advanced mathematical concepts including the ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to compose and interpret graphs. Positionrequires the ability to deal with multiple problems involving several variables in a variety of situations. Employee is required to work with minimal supervision.Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of the position, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, and use fine and gross motor skills. The employee may be required to bend, twist, push, carry and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Considerable time is spent using the telephone and a keyboard.Travel: Moderate travel is required predominantly in South Dakota; some out of state travel will be necessary. Employee must maintain a current SD driver's license and possess current vehicle liability insurance.Work Environment: Employee may be exposed to communicable diseases when working in a healthcare environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.Expectations: Employee is expected to maintain confidentiality when dealing with all stakeholders. Employee is expected to utilize effective problem-solving skills as appropriate and model professional behavior at all times when representing SESD AHEC. Employee will convey enthusiasm and sincere support for SESD AHEC and its services to all stakeholders.

Employee will support the mission and vision of SESD AHEC to stakeholders, co-workers and peers in the communities we serve. Employee must be flexible to change and have the ability to work in a team environment. Employee is required to comply with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations, and applicable standards for the profession represented. Employee will strive to coordinate workflow with other team members to ensure a productive and efficient environment. Employee is consi tently attentive to SESD AHEC fiscal/budgetary expectations. Employee is expected to attend training and education to maintain a high level of professional proficiency in their work. Employee must display appropriate time management. Grooming, communications skills, and dress must portray a professional demeanor.ESSENTIAL DUTIES1.Maintain and build positive relationships and business opportunitiesWith current stakeholders, and work to develop new relationships[]{style=""}