Executive Director - Healthcare

Job Description:

Lead the overall development of a 75-bed palliative-care institution with extended homecare services, translating the Foundation's vision into a high-quality, compassionate and sustainable institution.

- Lead the institution's overall strategy, operations, culture and organisational development.

- Translate the Foundation's vision into clear organisational priorities and execution.

- Build a culture rooted in compassion, dignity, humility, integrity, accountability and excellence.

- Partner with senior clinical consultants to strengthen clinical governance, patient safety, quality and multidisciplinary care while respecting clinical autonomy.

- Recruit, develop, mentor and retain high-performing multidisciplinary teams.

- Build leadership capability, performance management and learning systems across the organisation.

- Establish robust operational systems, dashboards, governance mechanisms, compliance and risk-management processes.

- Lead budgeting, financial planning, resource allocation and long-term organisational sustainability.

- Develop strategic partnerships with hospitals, academia, government, philanthropy and other ecosystem stakeholders.

- Support the development of training, research, volunteering, outreach and community-based initiatives.

- Champion continuous improvement, innovation and evidence-informed practice.

- Ensure patient and family feedback and organisational outcomes inform service improvement.

- Represent the institution externally and build trusted relationships with key stakeholders.

- Drive the development of the institution into a nationally respected centre for palliative care.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

The ideal candidate will be a doctor/healthcare leader and institution builder who is motivated by building a mission-driven healthcare institution rather than simply managing an established hospital.

Strong preference for candidates with experience in one or more of the following:

- Community Medicine / Public Health

- Palliative Medicine / Palliative Care

- General Medicine / Family Medicine

- Oncology with palliative-care exposure

- Medical Superintendent / Medical Director / Hospital Director / Clinical Director roles

- Mission hospitals / charitable healthcare / NGOs

- Community health and home-based care

- Academic / teaching and mentoring environments

Formal Palliative Medicine qualification is not mandatory where the candidate has meaningful palliative-care exposure and demonstrates the willingness to deeply understand and embrace the philosophy of care beyond cure.