AVP, Quality

Inova Health; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Inova Health seeks an Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Quality to oversee the organization’s quality strategy and translate strategic direction into reliable performance across hospitals, ambulatory settings, service lines, and physicians.

This senior leader will drive the transformation of quality from a compliance function into a strategic operating system that enables care excellence, reduces variation, and strengthens the system’s ability to perform under complexity and change, with a focus

Qualifications

• Leadership and executive-level influence required.
• Experience directing performance improvement and data analytics in healthcare.
• Graduate-level or professional certification in quality improvement preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day leadership of the system quality organization.
• Translate strategic priorities into operational plans and routines.
• Ensure quality work supports clinical operations and care pathways.
• Partner with service line leaders to reduce unwarranted variation.
• Embed quality/safety expectations into core clinical workflows.
• Lead quality initiatives across hospitals, ambulatory sites, and CIN/ACO structures.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Change management

Education

Master's Degree in Healthcare, Nursing, Medicine, Public Health, or related field

CPHQ or Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt

Job description

The Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Quality is the system senior leader responsible for the day-to-day oversight, execution, and operationalization of the health system’s quality strategy. This role translates strategic direction into reliable performance, measurable outcomes, and integrated ways of working across hospitals, ambulatory settings, service lines, and aligned physicians. This role is designed to move quality from a compliance- and project-based function to a strategic, execution-oriented operating system that enables care excellence, reduces variation, supports value-based care, and strengthens the system’s ability to perform under complexity and change.

The Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Quality is the system senior leader responsible for the day-to-day oversight, execution, and operationalization of the health system’s quality strategy. This role translates strategic direction into reliable performance, measurable outcomes, and integrated ways of working across hospitals, ambulatory settings, service lines, and aligned physicians. This role is designed to move quality from a compliance- and project-based function to a strategic, execution-oriented operating system that enables care excellence, reduces variation, supports value-based care, and strengthens the system’s ability to perform under complexity and change.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day leadership and oversight of the system quality organization, ensuring consistent execution of the Inova’s quality strategy across the continuum of care.
• Translate strategic priorities set by the CQSO into operational plans, performance management routines, and execution disciplines.
• Ensure quality work supports both everyday clinical operations and the development and deployment of care pathways and care models.
• Partner with service line leaders, clinical operations, and physician leaders to reduce unwarranted variation through standardized, evidence-based care pathways and models.
• Support the evolution from fragmented “solution shop” approaches to a uniform, integrated system of care for like types of care; Embed quality, safety, patient experience, and stewardship expectations directly into core clinical workflows.
• Act as a key integrator across hospitals, ambulatory sites, service lines, employed and aligned independent physicians, and system infrastructure; Work in close partnership with nursing, service line leadership, value-based care, analytics, finance, and operations to ensure quality is not an “extracurricular department,” but a core enabler of clinical and business goals.
• Serve as a system quality leader within shared governance structures, including quality councils and clinically integrated network (CIN) or ACO quality committees.
• Advance quality strategies that support value-based reimbursement, pay-for-performance programs, and risk-based contracts.
• Partner with finance and value-based care leaders to establish and articulate the financial ROI of quality outcomes, including margin protection and growth.
• Lead quality-driven efforts in clinical stewardship, unburdening the system of care, and reducing unnecessary cost and complexity; Build system capacity in improvement science, implementation science, complexity science, and care model development.

Minimum Requirements

• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) or Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt (upon hire)
• 10 years of progressive experience directing and leading performance improvement and data analytics concepts in a dynamic healthcare setting
• 5 years of management experience
• Master's Degree in Healthcare, Nursing, Medicine, Public Health, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated success in designing, implementing, and scaling enterprise-wide quality improvement strategies and programs
• Extensive experience leading quality functions across complex, multi-hospital and ambulatory health systems

About Us

We are Inova, Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 26,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience. And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better — to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.

Inova Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.