Ascension Executive Recruitment

Project Manager

• Implementation Manager with a healthcare background will deploy scheduling platforms across markets.
• Perform project management, implementation planning, managing healthcare scheduling workflows (Primary Care/Specialty), configuring Dash Central and Self-Scheduling, utilizing Epic scheduling knowledge, coordinating UAT, managing cross-functional stakeholders (ACC, Market Ops, IT, Clinical), strong communication and documentation, risk identification and issue escalation, process improvement, and managing multiple simultaneous deployments.

Project Manager – Scheduling Platforms

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Provides financial and strategic guidance to AV.
• Provides leadership in accounting, financial reporting, finance operations, and fund administration.
• Collaborate with the Director of Finance, AV, to oversee all aspects of annual, quarterly, and monthly financial reporting, including portfolio valuation and analysis.
• Collaborate with the Director of Finance, AV, to oversee the annual external audit and tax return preparation processes.
• Oversee all finance-related materials for the AV Board of Managers meetings and committees, as well as AV-related updates for Ascension and other limited partners.
• Develop and present management reports to the AV team and Board of Managers, including performance metrics and industry benchmarks.
• Assist in the investment closing process.
• Coordinate execution of deal documents and funding of investments.
• Partner with the AV investment team to understand portfolio company and pipeline opportunity businesses, performance, developments, challenges, and capital needs.
• Responds to adhoc information and data requests from Ascension and other LPs.
• Supports AV Senior Managing Director, Firm Lead, and Chief Administrative Officer with fund administration and fundraising.
• Stays abreast of industry standards and practices to continually improve AV processes and reporting.
• Performs a variety of special projects.

Head of Finance

Director

• Contribute to delivering the Corporate Strategy team's growth priorities across the enterprise and within Ministry Markets.
• This role is focused on maturing the organization’s service line and business line strategy.
• The Senior Director will act as a thought partner with market and system teams supporting: service line development, enterprise capital planning, acute and ambulatory network development, and enterprise growth.
• Contribute to advancing the Corporate Strategy team’s goals to deliver on Ascension’s growth imperatives, vision, and mission.
• Build approaches supporting end-to-end service line and business line growth.
• Support National and Ministry Market leaders in strategic service line growth opportunity evaluation, including but not limited to: service line development, new business segment evaluations, continuum of care growth, and various opportunity assessments.
• Be a thought partner for Ministry Market Strategy Teams in the development of strategic growth goals, volume & growth forecasting, and market growth opportunities.
• Oversee execution and performance management of strategic growth initiatives.
• Support management of progress-to-plan and monthly Ministry Market business performance.
• Continually review, understand, and incorporate industry insight into clinical service advancement opportunities, design, and deployment.

Senior Director of Strategy – Service Lines

• Contribute to delivering the Corporate Strategy team's growth priorities across the enterprise and within Ministry Markets.
• This role is focused on advancing strategic market penetration as well as strategic growth and transformation.
• Act as a thought partner with market and system teams supporting market entry assessments, enterprise capital planning, and business transformation, and enterprise growth.
• Contribute to advancing the Corporate Strategy team’s goals to deliver on Ascension’s growth imperatives, vision, and mission.
• Build frameworks and methodologies by which the Corporate Strategy Team will pursue market entry, access, and business transformation opportunities.
• Support National and Ministry Market leaders in strategic growth opportunity evaluation, including but not limited to: capital project evaluation, growth strategy design, new market evaluation, and opportunity assessments.
• Be a thought partner for Ministry Market Strategy Teams in the development of strategic growth goals, volume & growth forecasting, and market growth opportunities.
• Oversee execution and performance management of strategic growth initiatives.
• Support management of progress-to-plan and monthly Ministry Market business performance.
• Continually review, understand, and incorporate industry and competitive environment dynamics into strategy design and deployment.

Senior Director, Strategy – Market Entry, Transformation

IT Support

• As an Ascension Technologies Intern, you will be able to work on real-life and meaningful projects, develop your technical skills, collaborate, and network with various teams across the IT Infrastructure and Security continuum.
• You will focus on one of two tracks: Enterprise Modeling & Communication, where you build out architecture components and tell richer stories about our technology, or Solution Architecture Delivery, where you design architectures for major programs to help teams estimate costs and requirements.
• By the end of the summer, you will have left a permanent mark on Ascension's "Master Map," helping the organization avoid technical debt and more accurately estimate the work required for massive, complex healthcare initiatives.
• Your experience will culminate in a presentation to our architecture community and senior leadership, where you will showcase your contributions to Ascension’s digital transformation.

IT Intern – Enterprise Architecture Solution Design

Security Operations

• Focus on investigating security incidents and performing root cause analysis using tools like Google SecOps and SentinelOne
• Write security rules and improve automated detection capabilities to defend against sophisticated threats
• Participate in the development of "Playbooks" for incident response and threat triage
• Translate complex security events into clear, structured reports and procedures

IT Intern – Cybersecurity Operations, Forensics & Incident Response

Procurement

• Support the SSM Sourcing team in managing the contract lifecycle, including document retention standards and administrative overhead.
• Assist in the initial review and "redlining" of contracts, ensuring technical and legal requirements are captured accurately.
• Help navigate the IT risk landscape by reviewing vendor assessments and ensuring compliance with organizational standards.
• Assist in refining internal process workflows and utilizing contract management tools to improve team efficiency.
• Shadows employees to understand different roles in the organization and gains familiarity with different healthcare IT systems.
• Research and data gathering for key initiatives.
• Collaborates with technical resources to perform root cause analysis and complete remediation of technology issues.
• Collaborates on driving improvement activities to achieve department and organizational goals.

IT Intern – Sourcing, Contracts & Third-Party Risk

• Perform deep-dive research into adversaries and monitor the dark web to stay ahead of emerging threats.
• Monitor OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) and create intelligence bulletins for the organization.
• Proactively search for signs of malicious activity (adversary hunting) within the environment.
• Work with technical teams to gather requirements and engineer rules based on evidence-based practices.

IT Intern – Cybersecurity Operations, Cyber Threat Intelligence

DevOps Engineer

• Participate in technology-related projects such as assisting in moving repositories and workflows into GitHub cloud to set new standards for version control.
• Build and troubleshoot automation scripts using GitHub Actions and Jenkins (Groovy/Jenkinsfile).
• Help teams migrate applications from traditional servers to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run.
• Use Terraform to provision and manage cloud resources programmatically.
• Collaborate with technical resources to perform root cause analysis and complete remediation of technology issues, specifically identifying and fixing security vulnerabilities (CVEs) within deployment pipelines and infrastructure.
• Collaborate on driving improvement activities by creating tools that help developers deploy their own code without manual intervention.
• Translate functional requirements to technical specifications to build Tableau or Cloud Native dashboards for monitoring event metrics and system health.
• Research and data gathering for key initiatives related to Cloud Native application architecture and automation methodologies.

IT Intern – DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer

Security Engineer

• Support the implementation of systematic methodologies to identify and prioritize risks across the enterprise and our third-party ecosystem.
• Assist in developing detailed plans for mitigating identified risks, including the selection and implementation of specific security controls.
• Help transition security measures into a comprehensive, mature risk program that aligns with healthcare industry standards.
• Help track Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) to ensure security controls are functioning effectively over time.
• Assist in the creation of risk intelligence reports to provide leadership with timely, actionable data.
• Learning to evaluate the likelihood and impact of various cybersecurity threats to the organization.
• Reviewing security controls to ensure they meet the requirements of our governance framework.
• Helping create the procedural documentation necessary to maintain a standardized risk management program.
• Collaborating with various IT and business units to gather data and communicate risk findings.

IT Intern – Cybersecurity Governance, Risk

Medical writer

• Provide high-quality concurrent and/or retrospective clinical documentation review across Ascension markets as assigned.
• Float seamlessly between inpatient units, service lines, and CDI teams based on organizational need and leadership direction.
• Perform compliant query generation to clarify conflicting, missing, or unclear documentation that impacts coding, severity, quality metrics, and reimbursement.
• Maintain productivity and quality standards consistent with senior-level CDS expectations.
• Quickly acclimate to local workflows, documentation practices, EHR systems (e.g., Epic, Cerner), and CDI software platforms (e.g., 3M, Iodine, Nuance).
• Participate in new market launches, staff orientation, and short-term CDI education efforts as needed.
• Assist regional or corporate leadership with implementation of CDI best practices during transition or expansion periods.
• Provide mentoring or shadow support to newer CDS team members during onboarding or periods of low census.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and professionalism in all market interactions, serving as an ambassador of the Ascension CDI model.

Senior Clinical Documentation Specialist, Float Pool

Consultant

• Develop, lead, and implement strategic projects within Ascension.
• Lead implementations of new healthcare strategy and processes.
• Create, review, and present executive-level deliverables.
• Gather, interpret, and analyze large data sets from multiple sources.
• Manage a direct report associate from within the Strategic Integration consultant community.
• Design and implement solutions aimed to enhance the consultant community.

Senior Consultant – Strategic Integration

Communications

• Support the development and implementation of internal communications that strengthen Ascension’s associate experience and operational priorities.
• Execute strategic and measurable internal communications plans for HR strategies, focused on associate engagement.
• Draft and produce high-quality internal communications content, campaigns, and events materials.
• Proactively identify trends, risks, challenges and solutions to process adoption.
• Ensure that communications reflect the Mission, Vision and Values of Ascension as a healing ministry of the Catholic Church.

Internal Communications Specialist

• Provide financial support for Ascension joint ventures, both consolidated and unconsolidated.
• Manage assigned markets and be responsible for all joint venture activity within those markets.
• Support the financial performance and reporting for assigned joint ventures.
• Manage monthly close process for joint ventures through review, analysis, and coordination with key stakeholders.
• Review Blackline reconciliations and ensure accuracy and completeness of account activity.
• Review work to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Assist with financial projects, analysis, and ongoing operational needs.
• Serve as the financial contact for assigned markets.

Senior Financial Analyst

Frontend Engineer

• Consult and influence on the process of collecting accurate patient demographics and insurance information.
• Ensure insurance eligibility and benefits are verified before services are rendered to prevent claim denials.
• Consult and influence on the scheduling process to ensure copay and outstanding balances are collected.
• Work with practice locations on authorization workflows, automation, and analyze data to reduce denials.
• Analyze key metrics, identify challenges like data inaccuracies or delays, and implement strategies to improve front-end processes.
• Analyze data to develop insights and present clear, actionable findings to stakeholders and senior leadership.