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The Department of Radiation Oncology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, seeks an experienced radiation oncologist to serve as Vice Chair for Clinical Operations. This is a senior leadership position that reports directly to the Department Chair and works closely with the Associate VP of Radiation Oncology to lead clinical, operational, and strategic performance across the enterprise.The Vice Chair serves as the Chair's principal deputy for the clinical enterprise, with accountability for the safety, quality, consistency, and efficiency of radiation oncology care delivered across all Jefferson Health facilities, and for the strategic growth of that enterprise across the regions. The successful candidate will pair credible clinical practice with operational discipline and judgment — standardizing care across a geographically distributed network while identifying and executing the partnerships, programs, and technology investments that expand access to high-quality radiation oncology.
This is a position of unusual scope. Following Jefferson Health's combination with Lehigh Valley Health Network, the radiation oncology enterprise extends from Philadelphia and South Jersey north through the Lehigh Valley and northeastern Pennsylvania. Bringing academic, community, and regional sites across that geography onto common standards of quality, safety, and practice — while respecting the local relationships and referral patterns that sustain each site — is the central work of this role and its principal opportunity for impact.
The role is designed as a working leadership position: the Vice Chair maintains an active clinical practice and remains an engaged member of the academic faculty.
Job Description
Clinical Leadership
Oversee clinical workflows, patient safety, quality metrics, and multidisciplinary program development across the department's radiation oncology facilities.
Provide enterprise physician leadership across the radiation oncology network, partnering with Regional Medical Directors and Site Medical Directors to establish expectations for clinical performance, access, quality, productivity, professionalism, clinical citizenship, and adherence to enterprise standards.
Establish and lead a consistent physician governance structure across the enterprise, including regular engagement with Regional and Site Medical Directors and clear mechanisms for decision-making, escalation, accountability, and dissemination of clinical standards.
- Provide operational oversight of clinical workflows across all Jefferson Health radiation oncology sites — consultation, simulation, planning, treatment delivery, on-treatment management, and survivorship handoff — with an emphasis on timely access and reducing unwarranted variation between sites.
- Serve as the department's physician leader for patient safety: oversee event and near-miss reporting, root cause and common cause analysis, corrective action plans, and closure of the safety loop with frontline staff.
- Define, monitor, and act on the departmental quality dashboard, including time from referral to consultation and from consultation to treatment start, physics and chart-check completion, peer review participation and yield, treatment interruptions and unplanned breaks, on-treatment visit compliance, adverse event and toxicity rates, patient-reported outcomes, and patient experience scores.
- Lead and standardize the departmental peer-review and chart-round structure across sites, including prospective contour and plan reviews.
- Maintain continuous accreditation and regulatory readiness — ASTRO APEx, Commission on Cancer, The Joint Commission, state radiation control programs, and NRC/Agreement State licensure — and lead survey preparation, response, and remediation.
- Develop and maintain evidence-based treatment guidelines, care pathways, and technical standards for contouring, planning, immobilization, image guidance, and dose constraints, and oversee their consistent adoption network-wide.
- Lead multidisciplinary program development in partnership with disease-site leaders in medical oncology, surgical oncology, urology, radiology, pathology, and palliative care — including tumor boards, multidisciplinary clinics, and aligned pathways with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- Guide the clinical deployment of advanced technology and techniques across the network — SBRT/SABR, brachytherapy (including HDR and image-guided approaches), adaptive and MR-guided radiotherapy, radiopharmaceutical therapy, and proton referral pathways — including credentialing, competency, and equitable geographic access.
- Partner with medical physics, dosimetry, radiation therapy, nursing, and advanced practice leadership on staffing models, scope of practice, competency assessment, and workflow design.
- Manage clinical capacity: machine utilization, scheduling templates, downtime, and disaster contingency planning, cross-site coverage, and patient transfer protocols.
- Lead post-combination clinical integration of radiation oncology across legacy Jefferson and Lehigh Valley Health Network sites — harmonizing quality and safety standards, peer review, treatment pathways, credentialing, technology standards, and operational metrics into a single accountable system while preserving effective local practice and referral relationships.
- Champion equitable access and consistent quality across the full network — extending academic-standard care, multidisciplinary review, and clinical trial availability to community and regional sites, including those outside the cancer center's formally defined catchment area.
- Develop an enterprise framework for Centers of Excellence and regional specialization, defining which clinical capabilities should be broadly distributed across the network and which highly specialized programs should be concentrated at designated centers based on volume, expertise, technology, quality, access, and academic opportunity.
Administrative Duties
- Assist the Department Chair with clinical operations and strategic planning, serving as the senior physician leader for enterprise clinical operations. Serve as the Chair's principal deputy for clinical operations, representing the Chair in designated operational forums and acting on the Chair's behalf as delegated. Work in dyad partnership with the Associate Vice President of Radiation Oncology to align physician leadership with enterprise operations, finance, workforce, capital planning, and strategic execution.
- Co-led annual departmental strategic planning, operating, and capital budget development, and performance-to-budget review for the clinical enterprise.
- Contribute to clinical workforce planning: physician and advanced practice staffing models, site assignments and coverage, call schedules, recruitment needs, and onboarding of new clinical faculty.
- Help design and administer clinical effort, productivity, and incentive frameworks, and participate with the Chair in faculty performance review, professionalism, and clinical citizenship expectations.
- Oversee clinical informatics supporting operations — the oncology information system, electronic health record integration, scheduling, registries, operational dashboards, and automation or AI-enabled workflow improvement — in coordination with information services and institutional digital health leadership.
- Coordinate with fellow Vice Chairs so that clinical operations enable, rather than compete with, research accrual and trainee education.
- Ensure that enterprise clinical operations create infrastructure that advances the Department's academic mission, including clinical trial accrual, resident and trainee education, prospective data collection, implementation research, and dissemination of clinical innovation across the network.
- Represent the department to the hospital, cancer center, medical school, and enterprise administrative leadership, and serve on relevant institutional operating committees.
Clinical Practice
Provide direct patient care at the Academic Hub in Center City for an expected 2 days per week.
- Maintain an active, high-quality clinical practice across one or more disease sites that align with departmental needs and the candidate's expertise.
- Meet departmental expectations for clinical productivity, documentation timeliness, peer review participation, coverage and call, and patient experience.
- Model the safety, quality, and pathway-adherence standards that the role is responsible for overseeing.
- Maintain active medical licensure, board certification, and hospital privileges at assigned sites.
- Travel regularly to sites across the network, including the Lehigh Valley and northeastern Pennsylvania, as required by operational responsibilities.
5. Academic Contribution
Participate in clinical, translational, or other research, resident education, and departmental, hospital, and medical school committees.
- Participate in clinical, translational, health services, or implementation and operations research, with scholarly output commensurate with academic rank.
- Support clinical trial accrual across the network and work to extend trial access to community and regional sites.
- Teach and mentor residents, fellows, and medical students, including didactic instruction in quality, safety, and health care operations.
- Mentor junior faculty and advanced practice providers in clinical and operational leadership development.
- Serve on departmental, hospital, cancer center, and Sidney Kimmel Medical College committees.
- Maintain engagement with national professional and cooperative group organizations (e.g., ASTRO, ASCO, AACR, ACR, ACRO, ABS, NRG Oncology).
Qualifications
Required
- MD, DO, or MD/PhD degree.
- Board certification in Radiation Oncology by the American Board of Radiology (or board eligible with certification expected within [12] months of appointment).
- Eligibility for unrestricted medical licensure in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
- Eligibility for faculty appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor at Sidney Kimmel Medical College; rank commensurate with academic record.
- Minimum of [five to seven] years of practice beyond training, including demonstrated formal leadership in clinical operations, quality, or safety (for example, medical director, site director, quality officer, or service line lead).
- Demonstrated experience with quality and safety systems, accreditation processes, and performance metrics in radiation oncology.
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary collaboration and successful clinical program development.
- Strong communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, and change management skills, with the credibility to lead peers across multiple sites.
Preferred
- Experience leading clinical operations across multiple sites or within an integrated health system network.
- Experience with post-merger or post-affiliation clinical integration — harmonizing standards, metrics, and governance across previously separate organizations.
- Demonstrated effectiveness working with community and regional physicians and hospital leadership, not solely in an academic medical center setting.
- Formal management training (MBA, MHA, MMM, or an executive leadership program) — valued but not required.
- Working knowledge of radiation oncology reimbursement, coding, and alternative payment models.
- Experience with clinical informatics, operational analytics, or AI-enabled workflow improvement.
- Record of peer-reviewed scholarship and participation in cooperative group or investigator-initiated clinical trials.
About the Department and Institution
The Department of Radiation Oncology is a department of Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and delivers care across the Jefferson Health enterprise. The department maintains an ACGME-accredited residency program, an active clinical trials portfolio, including cooperative group participation, and research programs spanning radiation biology, medical physics, precision oncology, and clinical and digital health investigations.
The Clinical Enterprise
Jefferson Health completed its combination with Lehigh Valley Health Network in August 2024, forming a system of 32 hospitals and more than 700 sites of care across eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. The radiation oncology clinical enterprise within the scope of this position spans that full geography — from the academic campuses in Philadelphia and the South Jersey sites, north through the Lehigh Valley and northeastern Pennsylvania — and includes academic, community, and regional facilities.
Cancer Center Partnership
Clinical care is delivered in partnership with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, which the National Cancer Institute designated a Comprehensive Cancer Center in April 2024. The Cancer Center's NCI-defined catchment area comprises seven contiguous counties — Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester in Pennsylvania, and Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester in New Jersey — a population of approximately 6.1 million.
The operational scope of this position extends beyond that formally defined catchment area to the full Jefferson Health radiation oncology network. Reconciling the two — extending comprehensive cancer center standards, multidisciplinary care models, and clinical trial access across a footprint larger than the catchment area itself — is among the defining opportunities of the role.
Compensation and Benefits
Salary and academic rank are commensurate with experience, qualifications, and accomplishments. The position carries an administrative stipend and administrative time. Jefferson offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement contributions, malpractice coverage, continuing medical education support, and tuition benefits.
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Jefferson University PhysiciansPrimary Location Address
111 S 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of AmericaNationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University , home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health , nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps ), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
Number of Positions In Requisition
1

Job Details
The Department of Radiation Oncology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, seeks an experienced radiation oncologist to serve as Vice Chair for Clinical Operations. This is a senior leadership position that reports directly to the Department Chair and works closely with the Associate VP of Radiation Oncology to lead clinical, operational, and strategic performance across the enterprise.The Vice Chair serves as the Chair's principal deputy for the clinical enterprise, with accountability for the safety, quality, consistency, and efficiency of radiation oncology care delivered across all Jefferson Health facilities, and for the strategic growth of that enterprise across the regions. The successful candidate will pair credible clinical practice with operational discipline and judgment — standardizing care across a geographically distributed network while identifying and executing the partnerships, programs, and technology investments that expand access to high-quality radiation oncology.
This is a position of unusual scope. Following Jefferson Health's combination with Lehigh Valley Health Network, the radiation oncology enterprise extends from Philadelphia and South Jersey north through the Lehigh Valley and northeastern Pennsylvania. Bringing academic, community, and regional sites across that geography onto common standards of quality, safety, and practice — while respecting the local relationships and referral patterns that sustain each site — is the central work of this role and its principal opportunity for impact.
The role is designed as a working leadership position: the Vice Chair maintains an active clinical practice and remains an engaged member of the academic faculty.
Job Description
Clinical Leadership
Oversee clinical workflows, patient safety, quality metrics, and multidisciplinary program development across the department's radiation oncology facilities.
Provide enterprise physician leadership across the radiation oncology network, partnering with Regional Medical Directors and Site Medical Directors to establish expectations for clinical performance, access, quality, productivity, professionalism, clinical citizenship, and adherence to enterprise standards.
Establish and lead a consistent physician governance structure across the enterprise, including regular engagement with Regional and Site Medical Directors and clear mechanisms for decision-making, escalation, accountability, and dissemination of clinical standards.
- Provide operational oversight of clinical workflows across all Jefferson Health radiation oncology sites — consultation, simulation, planning, treatment delivery, on-treatment management, and survivorship handoff — with an emphasis on timely access and reducing unwarranted variation between sites.
- Serve as the department's physician leader for patient safety: oversee event and near-miss reporting, root cause and common cause analysis, corrective action plans, and closure of the safety loop with frontline staff.
- Define, monitor, and act on the departmental quality dashboard, including time from referral to consultation and from consultation to treatment start, physics and chart-check completion, peer review participation and yield, treatment interruptions and unplanned breaks, on-treatment visit compliance, adverse event and toxicity rates, patient-reported outcomes, and patient experience scores.
- Lead and standardize the departmental peer-review and chart-round structure across sites, including prospective contour and plan reviews.
- Maintain continuous accreditation and regulatory readiness — ASTRO APEx, Commission on Cancer, The Joint Commission, state radiation control programs, and NRC/Agreement State licensure — and lead survey preparation, response, and remediation.
- Develop and maintain evidence-based treatment guidelines, care pathways, and technical standards for contouring, planning, immobilization, image guidance, and dose constraints, and oversee their consistent adoption network-wide.
- Lead multidisciplinary program development in partnership with disease-site leaders in medical oncology, surgical oncology, urology, radiology, pathology, and palliative care — including tumor boards, multidisciplinary clinics, and aligned pathways with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- Guide the clinical deployment of advanced technology and techniques across the network — SBRT/SABR, brachytherapy (including HDR and image-guided approaches), adaptive and MR-guided radiotherapy, radiopharmaceutical therapy, and proton referral pathways — including credentialing, competency, and equitable geographic access.
- Partner with medical physics, dosimetry, radiation therapy, nursing, and advanced practice leadership on staffing models, scope of practice, competency assessment, and workflow design.
- Manage clinical capacity: machine utilization, scheduling templates, downtime, and disaster contingency planning, cross-site coverage, and patient transfer protocols.
- Lead post-combination clinical integration of radiation oncology across legacy Jefferson and Lehigh Valley Health Network sites — harmonizing quality and safety standards, peer review, treatment pathways, credentialing, technology standards, and operational metrics into a single accountable system while preserving effective local practice and referral relationships.
- Champion equitable access and consistent quality across the full network — extending academic-standard care, multidisciplinary review, and clinical trial availability to community and regional sites, including those outside the cancer center's formally defined catchment area.
- Develop an enterprise framework for Centers of Excellence and regional specialization, defining which clinical capabilities should be broadly distributed across the network and which highly specialized programs should be concentrated at designated centers based on volume, expertise, technology, quality, access, and academic opportunity.
Administrative Duties
- Assist the Department Chair with clinical operations and strategic planning, serving as the senior physician leader for enterprise clinical operations. Serve as the Chair's principal deputy for clinical operations, representing the Chair in designated operational forums and acting on the Chair's behalf as delegated. Work in dyad partnership with the Associate Vice President of Radiation Oncology to align physician leadership with enterprise operations, finance, workforce, capital planning, and strategic execution.
- Co-led annual departmental strategic planning, operating, and capital budget development, and performance-to-budget review for the clinical enterprise.
- Contribute to clinical workforce planning: physician and advanced practice staffing models, site assignments and coverage, call schedules, recruitment needs, and onboarding of new clinical faculty.
- Help design and administer clinical effort, productivity, and incentive frameworks, and participate with the Chair in faculty performance review, professionalism, and clinical citizenship expectations.
- Oversee clinical informatics supporting operations — the oncology information system, electronic health record integration, scheduling, registries, operational dashboards, and automation or AI-enabled workflow improvement — in coordination with information services and institutional digital health leadership.
- Coordinate with fellow Vice Chairs so that clinical operations enable, rather than compete with, research accrual and trainee education.
- Ensure that enterprise clinical operations create infrastructure that advances the Department's academic mission, including clinical trial accrual, resident and trainee education, prospective data collection, implementation research, and dissemination of clinical innovation across the network.
- Represent the department to the hospital, cancer center, medical school, and enterprise administrative leadership, and serve on relevant institutional operating committees.
Clinical Practice
Provide direct patient care at the Academic Hub in Center City for an expected 2 days per week.
- Maintain an active, high-quality clinical practice across one or more disease sites that align with departmental needs and the candidate's expertise.
- Meet departmental expectations for clinical productivity, documentation timeliness, peer review participation, coverage and call, and patient experience.
- Model the safety, quality, and pathway-adherence standards that the role is responsible for overseeing.
- Maintain active medical licensure, board certification, and hospital privileges at assigned sites.
- Travel regularly to sites across the network, including the Lehigh Valley and northeastern Pennsylvania, as required by operational responsibilities.
5. Academic Contribution
Participate in clinical, translational, or other research, resident education, and departmental, hospital, and medical school committees.
- Participate in clinical, translational, health services, or implementation and operations research, with scholarly output commensurate with academic rank.
- Support clinical trial accrual across the network and work to extend trial access to community and regional sites.
- Teach and mentor residents, fellows, and medical students, including didactic instruction in quality, safety, and health care operations.
- Mentor junior faculty and advanced practice providers in clinical and operational leadership development.
- Serve on departmental, hospital, cancer center, and Sidney Kimmel Medical College committees.
- Maintain engagement with national professional and cooperative group organizations (e.g., ASTRO, ASCO, AACR, ACR, ACRO, ABS, NRG Oncology).
Qualifications
Required
- MD, DO, or MD/PhD degree.
- Board certification in Radiation Oncology by the American Board of Radiology (or board eligible with certification expected within [12] months of appointment).
- Eligibility for unrestricted medical licensure in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
- Eligibility for faculty appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor at Sidney Kimmel Medical College; rank commensurate with academic record.
- Minimum of [five to seven] years of practice beyond training, including demonstrated formal leadership in clinical operations, quality, or safety (for example, medical director, site director, quality officer, or service line lead).
- Demonstrated experience with quality and safety systems, accreditation processes, and performance metrics in radiation oncology.
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary collaboration and successful clinical program development.
- Strong communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, and change management skills, with the credibility to lead peers across multiple sites.
Preferred
- Experience leading clinical operations across multiple sites or within an integrated health system network.
- Experience with post-merger or post-affiliation clinical integration — harmonizing standards, metrics, and governance across previously separate organizations.
- Demonstrated effectiveness working with community and regional physicians and hospital leadership, not solely in an academic medical center setting.
- Formal management training (MBA, MHA, MMM, or an executive leadership program) — valued but not required.
- Working knowledge of radiation oncology reimbursement, coding, and alternative payment models.
- Experience with clinical informatics, operational analytics, or AI-enabled workflow improvement.
- Record of peer-reviewed scholarship and participation in cooperative group or investigator-initiated clinical trials.
About the Department and Institution
The Department of Radiation Oncology is a department of Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and delivers care across the Jefferson Health enterprise. The department maintains an ACGME-accredited residency program, an active clinical trials portfolio, including cooperative group participation, and research programs spanning radiation biology, medical physics, precision oncology, and clinical and digital health investigations.
The Clinical Enterprise
Jefferson Health completed its combination with Lehigh Valley Health Network in August 2024, forming a system of 32 hospitals and more than 700 sites of care across eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. The radiation oncology clinical enterprise within the scope of this position spans that full geography — from the academic campuses in Philadelphia and the South Jersey sites, north through the Lehigh Valley and northeastern Pennsylvania — and includes academic, community, and regional facilities.
Cancer Center Partnership
Clinical care is delivered in partnership with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, which the National Cancer Institute designated a Comprehensive Cancer Center in April 2024. The Cancer Center's NCI-defined catchment area comprises seven contiguous counties — Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester in Pennsylvania, and Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester in New Jersey — a population of approximately 6.1 million.
The operational scope of this position extends beyond that formally defined catchment area to the full Jefferson Health radiation oncology network. Reconciling the two — extending comprehensive cancer center standards, multidisciplinary care models, and clinical trial access across a footprint larger than the catchment area itself — is among the defining opportunities of the role.
Compensation and Benefits
Salary and academic rank are commensurate with experience, qualifications, and accomplishments. The position carries an administrative stipend and administrative time. Jefferson offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement contributions, malpractice coverage, continuing medical education support, and tuition benefits.
Work Shift
Workday Day (United States of America)Worker Sub Type
RegularEmployee Entity
Jefferson University PhysiciansPrimary Location Address
111 S 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of AmericaNationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University , home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health , nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps ), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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- Five or more years of executive administrative or board support experience
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- Strong written communication skills for drafting executive correspondence
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion
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Tailor your resume to governance language
Highlight experience supporting C-suite or board-level principals, using terms like 'board coordination,' 'executive correspondence,' and 'agenda preparation.' Hiring managers for this role scan for proximity to leadership decision-making, not just general administrative competence.
Apply early to roles that fit
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Show discretion and confidentiality on paper
Explicitly name high-sensitivity projects you supported without revealing confidential details. Phrases like 'managed communications for board-level deliberations' signal you understand the trust this role requires, which many candidates fail to demonstrate on their resume.
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An assistant to the chair in a university chancellor's office and one at a corporate board operate very differently. Narrow your search by sector so your cover letter and experience speak directly to that environment's pace, stakeholders, and reporting norms.
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Negotiate scope before discussing anything else
Before accepting any offer, clarify whether the role includes standing committee support, travel coordination for the chair, or staff supervision. These responsibilities vary widely across postings and affect workload significantly, so get them defined in writing before your start date.
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Which companies are hiring the most assistant to the chairs?
The most active employers for assistant to the chairs right now are Kennesaw State University, University of Texas at El Paso, and University of Central Florida, and the most openings are in Texas, Florida, and Georgia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is consistent across universities, nonprofit boards, and large corporate organizations.
How many assistant to the chair jobs are remote?
About 50% of assistant to the chair openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the role's proximity requirements vary widely by institution. Sub-functions like correspondence drafting, scheduling coordination, and document preparation tend to appear in remote or hybrid postings more often than roles requiring in-person board meeting support.
How do you become a assistant to the chair?
Start by building several years of experience in executive administrative support, focusing on roles that expose you to senior leadership workflows, board documentation, and confidential communications. Develop proficiency in calendar and meeting management tools, refine your written communication skills for formal correspondence, and seek out projects involving committee or governance support to build a portfolio of relevant, verifiable experience.
How do you get hired as a assistant to the chair with little experience?
Focus on roles in departmental or committee support, which are common entry points in universities and nonprofits, and emphasize transferable skills like scheduling, minute-taking, and professional correspondence. Volunteering to support board committees in a current role or internship gives you direct, citable governance experience that moves your application ahead of candidates with only general administrative backgrounds.
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Most hiring processes include an initial screening call focused on administrative background, followed by a panel or one-on-one interview with the chair or an HR representative. Candidates are typically asked scenario questions about managing competing priorities, handling confidential information, and supporting high-stakes meetings. Some employers add a practical component, such as drafting a sample agenda or demonstrating calendar management under a time constraint.
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