Description
About Tufts Medical Center
Tufts Medical Center is a world-renowned academic medical center that has been providing exceptional care across New England for over two centuries. Our clinicians are dedicated to delivering innovative, patient-centered care every day, from our primary care to our Level I Trauma Center to our leading heart transplant program and over 100 specialties and services. We are also the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine and a leading research institution that conducts game-changing medical and health policy research.
Location: Onsite at Tufts Medical Center Boston, MA
Job Overview
The Vice President (VP) of Human Resources (HR) Academic Medical Center will serve as the senior-most HR executive on-site at Tufts Medical Center (TMC), reporting directly to the Corporate CHRO of Tufts Medicine with a matrixed reporting to the TMC President. As the strategic HR leader for the site, the VP will oversee a high-impact team and manage core HR functions including the HR Business Partner (HRBP) team. This role also holds matrixed oversight of the local Employee and Labor Relations (ER/LR) to ensure close coordination and alignment with the HR COE leaders. The VP will serve as a key member of the Tufts Medical Center executive leadership team and will play a critical role in shaping and executing the HR strategy in alignment with both site-specific and system-wide goals. The VP will ensure cohesive collaboration across all HR functions, driving consistency, excellence, and a people-first culture across the site.
Job Description
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Master’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or a related field.
2. Ten (10) years of progressive HR leadership experience, including five (5) years in a senior HR role within healthcare, academic, or similarly complex environments.
3. Experience with large-scale transformation, including cultural change, mergers and acquisitions or system integration with a focus on building a positive, engaged workplace culture.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Fifteen (15) years of progressive HR leadership experience, including seven (7) years in a senior HR role within healthcare, academic, or similarly complex environments.
2. Human resources professional certifications (e.g., SHRM-SCP, SPHR) strongly preferred.
Duties and Responsibilities: The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.
1. Provides executive HR leadership, strategic direction, and day-to-day oversight of site-specific HR operations.
2. Acts as a trusted advisor to the Tufts Medical Center President and senior leadership team on all human capital matters, contributing to organizational planning and strategic execution.
3. Leads and manages the HRBP team, ensuring alignment of HR strategy with operational and clinical goals at the site.
4. Responsible for successfully onboarding and assimilating senior leaders into complex organizations, including providing strategic guidance on culture, stakeholder relationships, and team integration.
5. Provides matrixed oversight of the local Employee & Labor Relations and Leave Administration functions, ensuring best practices, legal compliance, and consistency across the site.
6. Drives collaboration and matrixed alignment with Corporate HR COEs (Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Compensation, Benefits, etc.) to execute integrated, best-in-class HR solutions.
7. Builds strong working relationships with other Tufts Medicine site executives and COEs to promote a consistent, high-performing organizational culture across the system.
8. Champions engagement and belonging initiatives in partnership with HR partners.
9. Fosters talent development and succession planning at the site, in coordination with the Talent Management COE.
10. Partners with the Talent Acquisition COE to support local workforce planning and recruitment efforts.
11. Uses workforce analytics and data to inform strategic decisions, measure HR effectiveness, and drive continuous improvement.
12. Maintains strong knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local laws, as well as collective bargaining agreements, and ensure compliance in all aspects of HR.
13. Acts as a key leader in change management initiatives, including restructuring, integration, and cultural transformation efforts.
14. Models and promotes the values of Tufts Medicine, reinforcing a culture of respect, accountability, and excellence.
Physical Requirements:
1. Professional office environment with typical office requirements such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, etc.
2. This is largely a sedentary role, which involves sitting most of the time, but may involve movements such as walking, standing, reaching, ascending / descending stairs and operating office equipment.
3. Frequently required to speak, hear, communicate, and exchange information.
4. Able to see and read computer displays, read fine print, and/or normal type size print and distinguish letters, numbers, and symbols.
5. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Skills & Abilities:
1. Executive presence with strong interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills.
2. Experience successfully onboarding and assimilating senior leaders into complex organizations, including providing strategic guidance on culture, stakeholder relationships, and team integration.
3. Experience working in unionized environments, with an understanding of the dynamics of labor relations and collaboration with represented employees.
4. Proven ability to manage HR operations in complex, matrixed organizations.
5. Collaborative leadership style with demonstrated success working across corporate and site teams.
6. Strategic thinker with a data-informed approach to solving organizational challenges.
7. Strong business acumen with the ability to connect HR strategy to operational success.
8. Adept at managing through ambiguity, complexity, and organizational change.
9. Experience driving engagement, belonging, and leadership development initiatives.
10. Commitment to service excellence and continuous improvement in the employee experience.
Job Profile Summary
This role focuses on supporting the design, development, and implementation of human resource programs and policies, including recruitment, training and development, compensation and benefits, mobility, talent acquisition, diversity, talent management & organization development and employee/labor relations. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Human Resources Leadership duties: Controls, directs, and participates in the activities of the organization through a hierarchy of managers and supervisors. Responsibilities also include long-term strategic planning, determining the policies of the organization, and allocating its resources and making decisions regarding organization growth and diversification to accomplish entity's vision. An executive role that provides strategic vision and/or tactical/strategic direction across multiple teams with the majority of time spent on overseeing area of responsibility and directing the responsibilities of employees. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and/or indirect reports. An entity sub-function head role accountable to establish and implement strategies that have short to mid-term (1-3 years) impact on business results in alignment with function objectives. Leads multiple teams of directors/senior managers and managers and develops short to mid-term (1-3 years) plans for optimizing the function or sub-function and the talent required to execute strategies in job area.
The salary range for this position is $275,000 to $350,000 annually. Actual compensation will be determined during the selection process and is based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, education, and internal equity.
This leadership role also includes eligibility for our executive incentive plan, providing an additional performance-based compensation opportunity. Award opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary and are paid out based on the achievement of approved goals and Tufts Medicine’s overall performance.
Beyond base pay, Tufts Medicine provides a comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports your health, financial security, and career growth—one of the many ways we invest in you so you can thrive both at work and outside of it. At Tufts Medicine, we view this investment not merely as compensation, but as recognition of the significant impact you will have as a leader in shaping our future.
