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About the Role

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University seeks an accomplished, innovative, and highly visible nursing executive to serve as Chief Nursing Officer for University Hospital at Downstate. This executive will provide strategic, clinical, operational, and professional leadership for nursing and patient care services, advancing a comprehensive vision for nursing excellence within a complex academic teaching hospital. The role involves enhancing nursing infrastructure, strengthening professional practice, developing and retaining the RN workforce, building an accountable nursing leadership structure, advancing quality, safety, and service, and creating opportunities for nurses to learn, develop, lead, and build careers.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a comprehensive nursing strategic plan aligned with hospital and institutional priorities.
Provide executive oversight of nursing operations, professional practice, education, workforce planning, quality, safety, patient experience, staffing, productivity, and resource allocation.
Build a sustainable RN workforce strategy encompassing recruitment, onboarding, residency, orientation, professional development, engagement, retention, and career advancement.
Use workforce data, including voluntary turnover trends, to identify and address drivers of avoidable RN attrition.
Recruit, develop, mentor, and hold accountable nursing leaders; establish leadership competencies and succession plans.
Advance a professional nursing practice model, shared governance, evidence-based practice, research, certification, and continuing education.
Establish and monitor nursing-sensitive quality, safety, and patient-experience indicators and drive sustained improvement.
Ensure regulatory and accreditation readiness, including NYSDOH, CMS, and The Joint Commission requirements.
Establish and monitor data-driven staffing and workforce-management strategies aligned with acuity, volume, quality, and fiscal responsibility.
Partner with Finance and HR on budgets, productivity, overtime, agency/temporary staffing, workforce planning, and labor-management strategy.
Establish and maintain a direct strategic partnership with the College of Nursing to strengthen clinical education, student and graduate talent pipelines, transition-to-practice, professional and leadership development, nursing research, faculty-practice collaboration, and pathways from education to employment and career advancement.
Assess readiness and develop an appropriate long-term roadmap toward recognized nursing excellence frameworks, including Magnet and/or other applicable programs.
Maintain a highly visible presence throughout clinical areas and build trust with frontline nurses, physicians, executives, labor partners, patients, and academic stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master’s Degree in Nursing, Nursing Administration, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Public Health or closely related field from an accredited institution.
New York State Registered Professional Nurse Licensure or eligibility prior to appointment.
10+ years of progressively responsible professional nursing experience, including substantial acute-care leadership.
5+ years of progressive senior nursing leadership at Director, ACNO/Deputy CNO, VP, CNO or comparable executive level.
Demonstrated responsibility for significant nursing operations, workforce management, quality, patient safety, professional practice, and organizational performance.
Demonstrated experience developing nursing leaders and leading meaningful organizational change.
Doctoral Degree (Strongly Preferred).
Prior CNO, Deputy/Associate CNO, VP Nursing or comparable senior executive experience (Strongly Preferred).
Academic medical center, teaching hospital, public/safety-net or similarly complex healthcare experience (Strongly Preferred).
Demonstrated success in RN workforce stability, professional development, leadership development, and measurable quality/patient-experience improvement (Strongly Preferred).
Professional Practice Model/shared governance and Magnet/Pathway or comparable nursing-excellence experience (Strongly Preferred).
Unionized healthcare experience (Strongly Preferred).
NEA-BC, CENP or comparable executive nursing certification (Strongly Preferred).
Demonstrate transformational leadership, visible and engaged executive presence, talent development, accountability and execution, clinical credibility, collaborative leadership, change management, workforce strategy, financial acumen, exceptional communication, and a strong commitment to academic nursing.

Skills

Nursing strategic planning
Nursing operations oversight
Professional practice leadership
Nursing education
Workforce planning
Quality improvement
Patient safety
Patient experience
Staffing and productivity management
Resource allocation
RN workforce strategy development
Recruitment and retention
Onboarding and residency programs
Professional development
Engagement and retention strategies
Leadership development
Mentorship
Succession planning
Professional nursing practice models
Shared governance
Evidence-based practice
Nursing research
Certification and continuing education
Nursing-sensitive indicators monitoring
Regulatory compliance (NYSDOH, CMS, The Joint Commission)
Data-driven staffing strategies
Budget management
Productivity analysis
Overtime management
Agency/temporary staffing oversight
Labor-management strategy
Partnership development (College of Nursing)
Clinical education enhancement
Talent pipeline development
Transition-to-practice programs
Nursing excellence frameworks (Magnet)
Stakeholder engagement
Transformational leadership
Executive presence
Talent development
Accountability and execution
Clinical credibility
Collaborative leadership
Change management
Workforce strategy
Financial acumen
Communication skills

Location

University Hospital at Downstate

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

10+ years of progressively responsible professional nursing experience
Substantial acute-care leadership experience
5+ years of progressive senior nursing leadership (Director, ACNO/Deputy CNO, VP, CNO or comparable executive level)
Prior CNO, Deputy/Associate CNO, VP Nursing or comparable senior executive experience (Strongly Preferred)

Education Level

Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Master’s Degree in Nursing, Nursing Administration, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Public Health or closely related field
Doctoral Degree (Strongly Preferred)

About the Company

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is one of the nation's leading metropolitan medical centers.
It is the only academic medical center in Brooklyn, serving a large and diverse population.
The institution is highly-ranked by Castle Connolly Medical among the top 5 leading U.S. medical schools for training doctors.

Equal Opportunity

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction, and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.
Women, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.
Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities is available upon request through Human Resources at ada@downstate.edu.