Chief Operating Officer-Greenwood

University of Mississippi Medical Center; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Mississippi Medical Center Greenwood is seeking a Chief Operating Officer to lead daily operations across the health system's Greenwood campus. The role focuses on quality patient care, safety initiatives, financial performance, and aligning operations with the organization's mission.

The COO will guide administrative leadership, manage capacity and throughput, and partner with clinical and financial leaders to optimize performance and staff engagement in a demanding healthcare

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree and seven (7) years of experience in Administrative Leadership in a healthcare setting.
• Must be able to effectively communicate with frontline staff, physicians, chairs, and administrative leaders.

Responsibilities

• Acts as part of a team that determines the services and programs necessary to meet the need of populations served by UMMC.
• Contributes to the organization’s financial strength by redesigning workflows and ensuring operational excellence.
• Builds and maintains relationships with constituencies within UMMC to foster collaboration and excellence in healthcare delivery and leadership.
• Participates in establishing and implementing short- and long-term organizational goals, policies and procedures; monitors effectiveness and implements improvements.
• Works with the CEO and clinical leadership to optimize capacity, patient throughput, and financial performance.

Education

Master’s Degree in Healthcare Administrative Leadership

Job description

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Job Requisition ID

R00052809

Job Category

Professional and Technical

Organization

Greenwood - Operations

Location/s:
UMMC Greenwood

Job Title

Chief Operating Officer-Greenwood

Job Summary

The Chief Operating Officer will be responsible for the daily operations within University of Mississippi Medical Center health system. This position is also accountable for driving high quality, patient satisfaction, safety initiatives, financial success, and aligning strategic goals with the overall mission of the organization.

Education & Experience

Education And Experience Required

Master’s Degree and seven (7) years of experience in Administrative Leadership in a healthcare setting.

Certifications, Licenses, Or Registration Required

N/A

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Must be able to effectively communicate with various groups and stakeholders ranging from: frontline staff, physicians, chairs, administrative leaders, and external governmental entities. Champion of organization effectiveness, quality and safety, and collaboration. Must have strong business and financial acumen to meet performance objectives and budget.

Responsibilities

• Acts as part of a team that determines the services and programs necessary to meet the need of populations served by UMMC.
• Contributes to the organization’s financial strength by redesigning workflows, retraining and/or deploying staff, managing labor, and ensuring operational excellence.
• Builds and maintains positive and effective relationships with all of the constituencies within UMMC; maintains an open, supportive culture of inter-professional collaboration and excellence in healthcare delivery and academic leadership.
• Participates in the establishment and implementation of short- and long-term organizational goals, objectives, strategic plans, policies and operating procedures; monitor and evaluate programmatic and operational effectiveness, and effects changes required for improvement.
• Works through the management team and medical leadership of the hospital, serving as a resource to help reduce costs, enhance revenues, achieve effective utilization and quality goals and objectives, analyze and utilize information to develop and support management decisions. Achieves effective utilization and quality goals and objectives.
• Acts on behalf of the CEO-University and Community Hospitals in their absence within the policies of UMMC and guidelines established by appropriate functional delegations.
• Works closely with Finance to maximize financial performance of the Jackson Hospitals and related services. Partners with Finance to ensure appropriate financial data is available and actionable.
• Establishes the operating platform to manage capacity and patient throughput by working with clinical leadership to ensure balance across the enterprise.
• Ensures the strength of the operations management team and supports the development of future leaders by emphasizing teamwork and collaboration as well as open, honest and direct communication.
• Works to ensure systems are aligned for superior patient and staff experience and engagement that is operationally efficient and manages successful transitions in care.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, frequent exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, constant working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to offsite locations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional reaching, constant sitting, occasional standing, occasional twisting, and constant walking (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more).

Time Type

Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt

Yes

Pay Class

Salary

FTE %:

100

Work Shift

Day

Benefits Eligibility

Grant Funded:

No

Job Posting Date

08/13/2026

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):