Job Description

Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA), a growing specialist alignment organization and leader in the ambulatory surgery center industry, strategically partners with health plans, medical groups and health systems across the country to develop and optimize surgical facilities. SCA operates 250 surgical facilities, including ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals, in partnership with approximately 7,500 physicians. For more information on SCA, visit www.scasurgery.com. SCA is part of Optum and UnitedHealth Group.

About SCA Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

The Director of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging will be the leading force to actualize our vision by developing and implementing strategies to support our culture, create a sense of belonging, promote inclusive leadership, provide equitable care, and leverage and increase workforce diversity. The Director acts as a highly visible, strategic partner to SCA leaders across the country and is a member of the Office of the CEO.

Since 2016, SCA has invested in a wide range of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DIBs) initiatives. Founded by SCA's then-SVP and now-CEO, SCA DIBs is central to our culture and the way we do business. Since the inception of DIBs with the creation of the Women's Leadership Network, SCA has developed 6 Teammate Resource Groups (TRGs), hosted more than 10 events, provided training to 600+ teammates, elevated diverse voices, traveled on medical mission trips, and conducted dozens of listening sessions to better understand the needs of our diverse and talented workforce.

The Teammate Resource Groups actively engage teammates from across the enterprise and today include: SCA Women's Network, SCA Serves (Military and Veterans), SCA PRIDE (LGBTQ+), SCA Stigma Free (Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders), SCA Belonging & Empathy (Allyship), and SCA BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color).

In 2020, SCA was awarded the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association ACE Award for commitment to ensuring gender diversity and leadership opportunities for women are part of the organizational DNA. Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekqy2S1Syq0&feature=youtu.be.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

For the Director of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, we are seeking a highly talented individual with strong leadership, program development, program management, communication, and influencing skills.

The successful candidate with leverage experience in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion space to assume responsibility for the overall strategy, planning, organization, and execution of SCA DIBs.

* Develop long-term plan, programs, processes, and metrics to drive DIBs in service of our mission
* Develop a comprehensive, cohesive, multi-year strategy to promote and expand SCA DIBs
* Enhance engagement in DIBs across the enterprise, with a specific focus on teammates that work in the surgical facilities
* Establish methods, metrics, and benchmarks for measuring progress and continuously improving our DIBs efforts
* Create learning and development experiences to grow leadership who model and drive inclusive behaviors. Create and grow meaningful events and activations that encourage, connect, and inspire SCA teammates to embrace DIBs
* Engage with the Teammate Resource Groups (TRGs), new and existing initiatives, long-term plan, and budget for all DIBs initiatives
* Oversee program management for SCA TRGs by advising on strategic plans, advocating for resources, and ensuring accountability and execution
* Create and moderate safe spaces for honest and practice dialogue regarding DIBs while challenging conventional wisdom
* Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including HR, Talent Acquisition, Communications, Field Operations leaders, Optum Diversity resources and others to implement best practices and drive enterprise adoption
* Serve as a strategic partner to the Office of the CEO and SCA leaders nationwide with a focus on leveraging DIBs to drive our mission internally and externally
* Work closely with HR and Talent Acquisition to develop and manage programs to diversify talent pipelines
* Partner with HR to develop and maintain policies and programs to attract, engage, retain, and promote a diverse workforce with DIBs serving as a fundamental element of professional development throughout the teammate journey
* Understand and leverage, when appropriate, diversity resources available across the broader OptumHealth, Optum and UHG landscape
* Advise and Influence the SCA Executive Leadership Team and facility leaders as a subject-matter expert on DIBs
* Consult on barriers and opportunities to advance DIBs throughout the enterprise
* Review policies, procedures, and programs to ensure equity in our business practices
* Proactively represent SCA by facilitating awareness of SCA DIBs, provide consultation and coaching to leaders and teammates on DIBs priorities, capabilities, offerings, and best practices
* Demonstrate and role model inclusive leadership and provide coaching to leaders and manage to enhance their capability to be inclusive leaders and allies and learn to build and retain diverse teams

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

* 5+ years of experience as a highly competent, strategic program manager and developer with an executive-level interface and high degree of executive influence.
* 2+ years both developing and managing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging programs for a large organization
* Intermediate Proficiency within Microsoft Office
* 5+ years effectively navigating a highly matrixed, multi-state / multinational organization to drive outcomes
* Travel up to 25%
* If you need to enter a work site for any reason, you will be required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener. When in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are required to wear a mask in common areas. In addition, employees must comply with any state and local masking orders

Preferred Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree
* Based: Chicago or Deerfield, IL or Birmingham, AL

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

* Strong understanding of concepts and metrics related to DIBs, cultural competence, and bias with the adjacent training and education
* Must be comfortable and knowledge regarding DIBs data collection and analysis, inclusive of reporting and budgeting; can use available data and investment to inform decisions and strategy recommendations and execution
* Knowledge of best practices and innovative talent trends in the marketplace; ability to challenge accepted wisdom
* Ability to collaborate and work successfully across all levels of the organization, affiliated partners, and community representatives, demonstrating excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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