Obran Health is the healthcare division of Obran Cooperative, the first worker-owned conglomerate in the US. Obran Cooperative is uniquely pragmatic and radical. We are a high-functioning conglomerate corporation running businesses in multiple verticals and geographies and are actively growing through acquisitions. Across all our operating businesses, we pursue this work as a means to achieve economic justice. We are democratizing ownership and building a distributive economic model.

The Director of Strategic Operations will support the executive Obran Health team and help our growing set of healthcare businesses execute on financial success, operational excellence, and ultimately our mission: positively impacting the lives of our worker-owners.

This role is an excellent opportunity for someone looking for experience scaling and managing a growing business while making a real impact in the lives of our workers. This is your opportunity to bring laser-sharp skills in consulting, strategy and operations to a fast-growing and successful social and economic justice organization. Obran is a leader in the 21st century cooperative movement, built by social entrepreneurs that are ushering in the new economy and returning shared prosperity to workers.

Responsibilities

• Develops long-term plans for Obran Health initiatives such as, but not limited to revenue growth strategies, people and workplace experience, investments, overall operations
• Measures productivity to demonstrate utilization and optimization of technologies for future training and process improvement
• Develop and implement strategies for continued improvement and efficiency
• Establish a working relationship with all stakeholders and act as a liaison to ensure their expectations are met and any requests for information are responded to in a timely manner
• Provides metrics and reports to monitor and track the status of operations.
• Provide strong, dynamic leadership that mentors, develops, and guides clinicians and healthcare staff to efficiently leverage the value of every client’s experience. ,
• Deliver results against a defined scope of work that includes measurable ROI, strategic innovation, performance reporting, and people development.
• Collaborates with people team to align succession planning, recruitment, training, and supporting programs for people development
• Develop, implement, and maintain effective internal and external quality assurance (QA) programs fostering continuous improvement and exceeding service level agreement (SLA) performance,
• Ensure compliance with regulatory agency guidelines and standards.
• Monitor and assess developments in the fields of public health, preventive medicine, wellness, pandemic planning, and occupational health that will affect OH and its employees globally.
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• 5-7 years of relevant, senior level operations experience in the healthcare industry
• Experience in ambulatory or home-based healthcare settings
• Experience using and deploying IT systems like G-Suite, Trello, ADP and EHRs to improve company operations and performance
• Considerable knowledge of cooperatives and cooperative economics is preferred
• Experience solving ambiguous problems and leading projects to successful outcomes
• Excellent analytical skill with an attention to detail, strong organization, resourcefulness, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
• Experience with managing multiple clients/businesses simultaneously
• A high level of drive and the ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment
• Experience taking complex information, synthesizing it, and communicating it in simple, understandable terms
• Comfortable shifting from strategic to tactical approaches to accomplish objectives
• Good judgment and creative problem-solving skills
• Integrity, with an ability to handle confidential information
• Continuous improvement mindset and the ability to adapt to changing demands

• Ability to quickly integrate into our team, and to work independently
• Bachelor’s degree or higher (or equivalent field experience) preferred
• 20% travel to the west coast
• A belief that our current corporate economic structure isn’t serving our society’s needs, and a desire to learn, unlearn, and build something positive and new.

Salary Range:

$85,000 - $95,000 USD per year plus performance bonuses.

We will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision benefits
• Short- and long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Personal enrichment resources offered to all Obran Cooperative members
• Financial budgeted resources offered to all Obran Cooperative members
• An ever-growing set of member benefits offered to all Obran Cooperative members
• Optional participation in the Obran Cooperative board and committees to help define future Obran Cooperative member benefits

Our Mission

Obran Cooperative’s mission is to put the engines of business to work for humanity.

Our Vision

Obran will be the world's largest worker-cooperative conglomerate. We exist to grow profitable, useful, and impactful businesses that serve our members, customers, and communities. We acknowledge structures of inequity and embrace the struggles to overcome them, one workplace at a time.

Our Values

• Democracy: We empower and educate members to participate fully in workplace decisions.
• Innovation: We question the status quo and find new ways of working that are better for ourselves, our customers, our communities, and the environment.
• Solidarity: We act in ways that promote equity and inclusion; we are pro-black, pro-women, pro-LGBTQ+, and against hate and discrimination in all its forms.
• Humanity: We believe that workers are humans first; we foster dignity, respect, and joy in our interactions with each other.
• Balance: We think critically and holistically about our decisions and seek balance in the short- and long-term outcomes of all stakeholders we touch. Our stakeholders include our members, our families, our communities, our investors, our customers, our suppliers, and the environment.

Our Principles

This organization operates in accordance with the Rochdale cooperative principles:

• Voluntary and open membership
• Democratic member control
• Members’ economic participation
• Autonomy and independence
• Education, training, & information
• Cooperation among cooperatives
• Concern for community

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, net disposable income, and performance. The range listed is one component of Obran’s total compensation package for employees/members. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Cooperative Membership, an open Paid Time Off policy.

Obran is deeply committed to creating workplaces and a community of members where equity is prioritized and valued. We believe that traditional corporations’ bad behavior disproportionately hurts the most marginalized people in society — including people of color, people from working class backgrounds, women and LGBTQ people. We believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

Obran is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please contact the Obran Coordination team at 443-704-4635, or by email at coordinators@obran.org at least one week in advance of your interview.