Administrative Fellow

📍 Newark, NJ | 🕒 Full Time

The primary purpose of the Administrative Fellowship Program is to transition top graduate students into health care operations management positions through focused mentoring, special projects, and leadership experiences. During this one‐to‐two‐year program, the Administrative Fellow will work on, and manage, a wide variety of projects throughout University Hospital. Will serve as project manager and/or provide project support. The Administrative Fellow will meet with University Hospital Leadership regularly throughout the Fellowship Program. This will allow the Fellow the opportunity to gain further insight and

guidance around professional growth and leadership development from a senior leader at UH. Fellows will gain valuable knowledge, skills, and abilities to address the complex challenges of today’s health care environment.

• →Under the guidance of a mentor, works on a wide variety of projects throughout University Hospital involving many different departments and functions. Works independently and with minimal supervision on assigned projects/tasks.
• →Fellows will be responsible to work with project sponsors to achieve project understanding, completion, and evaluation, using management level skills.
• →Participates in high level strategic planning, community health improvement, budgeting, quality, patient satisfaction, and other operational committees at University Hospital.
• →Utilizes project management methodologies such as Lean Sigma.
• →Develops qualitative skillsets – such as negotiations, business acumen, organizational communications and relationship building.
• →Understands and adheres to University Hospital’s compliance standards as they appear in University Hospital's Corporate Compliance Policy, Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest Policy.
• →Keeps abreast of all pertinent federal, state and University Hospital regulations, laws, and policies as they presently exist and as they change or are modified.

• Minimum of a Master’s Degree, attained within one year prior to application to fellowship program, required: such as Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Masters in Health Administration (MHA), Masters in Health Services Administration (MHSA), Masters in Public Health (MPH), or related field. Candidates with a master’s degree from a program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) are preferred.
• Healthcare industry experience such as an internship, externship, fellowship, or applicable employment highly desired.
• Possesses broad knowledge of current and historical perspectives in areas such as: healthcare business management, administration, clinical practice management, finance, human resources and/or information systems.
• Record of leadership and teamwork, and demonstration of excellent verbal and written communication skills required.

University Hospital is one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers. As the principal teaching affiliate of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and the only state-certified Level 1 Trauma Center in Northern New Jersey, University Hospital is training the next generation of physicians and advancing science to discovery while taking exceptional care of patients, regardless of their financial situation.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you want to grow your career in healthcare while serving a vibrant community, we’d love to meet you.