Vice President Human Resources

Description

The Opportunity

Vice President Human Resources, Metro Denver

The Vice President, Human Resources for the Metro Denver Region is an executive role that provides strategic human capital leadership for UCHealth's largest and most complex region, supporting hospitals, ambulatory operations, and regional leadership teams while serving as a trusted advisor to regional executives, operational leaders, and physician leadership. This leader will drive initiatives that strengthen organizational culture, workforce engagement, leadership effectiveness, talent strategies, and operational performance, partnering across the enterprise to ensure Human Resources enables UCHealth's mission, strategic priorities, and commitment to world-class patient care.

As a member of the senior leadership team, the Vice President will help shape the region's workforce strategy, support transformational change, and foster an environment where employees are engaged, leaders are equipped, and teams are positioned to deliver exceptional outcomes for patients and communities. This position is onsite and does not offer a hybrid or remote option.

Reporting Relationships

Reports to: Chief Human Resources Officer

Matrix reports to the Metro Denver CEO's

Responsibilities

Vice President Human Resources, Metro Denver

The successful VP of Human Resources will be a strategic, trusted, and collaborative leader who can navigate complexity, build strong relationships, and translate workforce needs into practical solutions. Success in this role will require executive presence, sound judgment, operational discipline, change leadership, and a deep commitment to UCHealth's mission, values, and culture of exceptional patient care.

• Partner with the Metro Denver Regional leadership team to align business priorities with workforce and talent strategies. Providing strategic HR advice to the executive team in the UCHealth Metro Denver Region.
• Partners with leadership to create the desired workplace culture and an engaged and productive workforce.
• Promote a culture of respect, accountability, inclusion, and psychological safety that supports organizational values and employee wellbeing
• Ensure consistent application of employment policies, organizational values, and legal requirements across the organization
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of HR managers, directors, business partners, and specialists supporting hospitals, clinics, and corporate functions across the region.
• Own regional workforce planning, including staffing strategy, succession planning, and labor cost management in partnership with finance and operations leaders.
• Guide employee relations strategy, ensuring consistent, fair, and legally compliant handling of workplace investigations, performance management, and conflict resolution. Partners with CHRO to lead crisis response, executive escalations, and sensitive high-risk HR matters, including complex investigations, workplace risk, leader behavior concerns, employee safety issues, and matters with potential legal, operational, cultural, or reputational impact.
• Partner with Talent Management and Organizational Development to strengthen leadership pipelines, engagement, and retention across the region, in addition to developing and executing proactive retention, staffing, and workforce stabilization strategies that address labor market pressures, workforce shortages, employee well-being, engagement, and hard-to-fill roles.
• Provide HR leadership for organizational change and sensitive workforce communications, including leader preparation, stakeholder alignment, change adoption, restructuring impacts, and communication strategies that support trust, clarity, and operational continuity.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment law, as well as Joint Commission, CMS, and other regulatory requirements affecting the healthcare workforce.
• Working with organizational development, lead change management for organizational restructuring, mergers, service line growth, and new facility openings within the region.
• Analyze workforce metrics, engagement data, employee relations trends, and leader feedback to identify risks, and present insights and recommendations to regional and system leadership.
• Collaborate with system HR Centers of Excellence (Total Rewards, HRIS, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Organizational Development) to ensure consistent policy application and program delivery.
• Champion a culture of inclusion, belonging, and employee wellbeing consistent with UCHealth's mission and values.
• Represent the region in system-wide HR leadership initiatives and serve as a change agent for enterprise HR strategy.
• Partner with regional HR peers to ensure consistent application of HR policies and practices.

Candidate Qualifications

The culture at UCHealth is results driven, and each member has high expectations for themselves as well as those with whom they are partner and lead. Candidates will be comfortable working in a fast-paced academic and community-based organization. They will exude honesty, respect, trust, integrity and high ethical standards and serve in a supportive, open and direct manner.

The successful candidate will meet the following requirements:

• Proven ability to advise senior executives, influence complex stakeholders, and lead through ambiguity in a matrixed organization.
• Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field required.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive human resources leadership experience.
• Prior experience in healthcare, hospital, or academic medical center environments strongly preferred.
• Strong expertise in leadership development, employment law, labor relations, and healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Strong track record of building high-performing HR teams and advancing culture, engagement, retention, and organizational effectiveness.

Pay: $227,510 - $341,65 annual base pay. Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience

At UCHealth, We Improve Lives

Employees are our number one asset.

UCHealth promotes a culture that invests in professional success and personal well-being through a comprehensive total rewards program. *

Recognition

• Performance bonus: UCHealth offers an Annual Performance Bonus to recognize employee contributions to our success in quality, patient experience, organizational growth, and financial goals.
• Performance-based pay increase: The Annual Merit Pay Increase recognizes work performance that meets or consistently exceeds performance standards documented through UCHealth's established evaluation process and accounts for increased experience, skills and cost of living.
• Market reviews: All UCHealth positions are reviewed annually to ensure UCHealth base pay aligns with market standards. Base pay rates are adjusted as needed to stay market competitive.

Health and well-being

• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• Access to 24/7 mental health and well-being support for employees and dependents.
• Discounted gym memberships and fitness resources.
• Free Care.com membership.
• Voluntary benefits such as accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal plan, identity theft protection, pet insurance, auto and home insurance, and employee discount programs.
• Time away from work: Paid time off (PTO), paid family and medical leave (inclusive of Colorado FAMLI), leaves of absence.
• Employer-provided basic life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage with buy-up coverage options.
• Employer-provided short-term disability and long-term disability.

Retirement and savings

• 403(b) plan with employer matching contribution.
• Additional 457(b) plan may be available.
• Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent day care; health savings account available when enrolled in high-deductible (HD) medical plan.

Education and career growth

• UCHealth provides access to academic degrees and certificate programs to promote professional and personal growth.
• Up to 100% of tuition, books and fees paid for by UCHealth for specific educational degrees.
• Other programs may qualify for up to $10,000/year pre-paid by UCHealth or up to $5,250/year in the form of tuition reimbursement.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, which offers thousands of virtual courses and seminars, and internal professional development opportunities.
• Employees have access to free assistance navigating the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and submitting their federal student loans for forgiveness.

*Eligibility for some programs is based on an employee's scheduled work hours.

We improve lives. In big ways through learning, healing, and discovery. In small, personal ways through human connection. But in all ways, we improve lives.

UCHealth always welcomes talent. This position will be open for a minimum of three days and until a top applicant is identified.

UCHealth recognizes and appreciates the rich array of talents and perspectives that equal employment and diversity can offer our institution. As an equal opportunity employer, UCHealth is committed to making all employment decisions based on valid requirements. No applicant shall be discriminated against in any terms, conditions or privileges of employment or otherwise be discriminated against because of the individual's race, color, national origin, language, culture, ethnicity, age, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender, veteran status, socioeconomic status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state, or local law. UCHealth does not discriminate against any qualified applicant with a disability as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act and will make reasonable accommodations, when the do not impose an undue hardship on the organization.

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