Executive Assistant

DCH Health System
Tuscaloosa, AL
The Healthcare Executive Assistant provides high-level administrative and strategic support to assigned senior healthcare executives within a complex health system environment. This role requires exceptional organizational skills, discretion, sound judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, highly regulated setting. The Executive Assistant serves as a key liaison between the executive office, physicians, leadership teams, board members, and external stakeholders

Executive Support

  • Manage complex calendar coordination, meeting prioritization, and scheduling across multiple campuses and physician leaders
  • Prepare executive correspondence, presentations, board materials, and briefing documents, as assigned
  • Coordinate executive travel, event logistics, and system-wide meetings
  • Screen and prioritize communications, ensuring timely and appropriate responses
  • Maintain strict confidentiality regarding organizational strategy, personnel matters, financial information, and legal issues

Governance Support

  • Assist with preparation and distribution of board packets and committee materials, as assigned
  • Coordinate board meeting logistics and maintain governance documentation, as assigned
  • Track follow-up items and ensure accountability for action items, as assigned

Operational & Strategic Coordination

  • Support strategic initiatives by tracking timelines, milestones, and deliverables
  • Compile reports, dashboards, and executive summaries (quality metrics, financial performance, operational data), as assigned
  • Assist in coordinating service line growth initiatives and cross-functional projects
  • Facilitate communication between executive leadership and department directors
  • Serves as a subject matter expert for key software systems, as assigned

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Serve as a professional liaison to physicians, community partners, and internal leaders
  • Draft internal communications, announcements, and executive messaging, as requested
  • Represent the executive office with professionalism and diplomacy

Administrative Excellence

  • Maintain organized filing systems (electronic and physical)
  • Process expense reports, invoices, and contracts
  • Support confidential HR-related documentation as needed

DCH Standards

  • Maintains performance, patient and employee satisfaction and financial standards as outlined in the performance evaluation.
  • Performs compliance requirements as outlined in the Employee Handbook
  • Must adhere to the DCH Mission, Vision, and Values including creating positive relationships with patients/families, coworkers, colleagues and with self.
  • Performs essential job functions in a manner that ensures the safety of patients, visitors and employees.
  • Identifies and reduces unsafe practices that may result in harm to patients, visitors and employees.
  • Recognizes and takes appropriate action to reduce risks and hazards to promote safety for patients, visitors and employees.
  • Requires use of electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet.
  • Must adhere to all DCH Health System policies and procedures.
  • All other duties as assigned.

Required

  • High School Diploma or equivalent
  • 5+ years of executive administrative support experience, preferably in healthcare

Preferred

  • Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, or related field
  • Experience supporting C-suite or senior leadership in a hospital or health system strongly preferred
  • Familiarity with board governance processes preferred

Other Skills

  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
  • Ability to prepare polished executive-level presentations and reports
  • Strong understanding of healthcare operations and regulatory environment
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • High level of discretion and emotional intelligence
  • Strong project management and prioritization skills
  • Ability to anticipate needs and work independently
  • Must be able to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work Context

  • Professional judgment and confidentiality
  • Organizational agility
  • Strategic thinking support
  • Executive presence
  • Adaptability in a dynamic healthcare environment
  • Face to face communication
  • Phone communication

Physical Factors

  • Ability Manual dexterity to utilize office equipment
  • Activities talking, hearing, repetitive motion, sitting, standing
  • Requirements Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.
  • Must be able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
  • Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.
  • Physical presence onsite is essential.
Posted 2026-03-03

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