System AVP Nursing Cancer Service Line

19440
September 19, 2025

Job Description

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Business Unit: Rush Medical Center

Hospital: Rush University Medical Center

Department: Hematology-Oncology PBC RUMC

Work Type: Full Time (Total FTE between 0. 9 and 1. 0)

Shift: Shift 1

Work Schedule: 8 Hr (8:00:00 AM - 4:30:00 PM)

Rush offers exceptional rewards and benefits learn more at our Rush benefits page (https://www.rush.edu/rush-careers/employee-benefits).

Relocation support available: We partner with UrbanBound, a comprehensive relocation management platform, to streamline and support your move. UrbanBound serves as a single, easy-to-use portal to manage relocation-related activities and resources for new employees.

Pay Range: $175,000 - $230,000 annually

Rush salaries are determined by many factors including, but not limited to, education, job-related experience and skills, as well as internal equity and industry specific market data. The pay range for each role reflects Rush’s anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position. Offers may vary depending on the circumstances of each case. This role has a corresponding incentive plan based on multiple factors. incentive compensation and additional benefits can be found on our Rush benefits page (https://www.rush.edu/rush-careers/employee-benefits)

Summary:

The Associate Vice President of Nursing for the Rush MD Anderson Cancer Center (RMDACC) serves as the senior nursing executive providing operational and strategic leadership across a comprehensive oncology program spanning over three locations, inpatient oncology, ambulatory care, infusion services, and clinical research, with oversight of more than 350 FTEs. This role holds system-level influence over nursing practice, care delivery models, workforce strategy, and quality outcomes across the full cancer continuum, partnering closely with physician and administrative leadership at all levels. RUSH is a nationally ranked cancer program recognized by U.S. News & World Report, operating within a five-time Magnet-designated health system.

Rush University System for Health and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have partnered to create RUSH MD Anderson Cancer Center. The partnership represents advanced clinical and operational integration in the delivery of cancer care, providing Rush patients greater access to cancer treatments and research considered among the best in the world. The AVP of Nursing is a critical driver of both operational excellence and long-term strategic growth.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic:
• Actively develops, implements, and advances nursing strategies aligning with the Rush System for Health and cancer service line strategic plan.
• Actively participates in strategic planning, policy formulation, problem solving, and management of Cancer Nursing Services as a member of the Nursing Executive Council and Cancer Service Line Leadership
• Translates the service line vision and strategic plan into measurable goals and sustainable programs.
• Identifies opportunities and implements systems to improve the value of care and services to patients and families across the care continuum for cancer services.
• Advance care delivery models that emphasize top of scope practice for nursing, APNs, and standardized scope for non-licensed or other ancillary non-RN personnel, with guidance from state licensure and industry standards of scope
• Ensure efficient teams’ approach to care, emphasizing value for maximum population health of cancer population.
• Supports joint ventures, partnerships and other growth initiatives, maximizing standardization across Rush System cancer service line.
• Lead and executes clinical and nursing practice alignment within these joint ventures, partnerships and other growth initiatives.
• Leads the evaluation, selection, and integration of healthcare technology and information management systems that support patient care needs.
• Represents the CNE and Cancer Service Line on committees and other activities ensuring collaboration and liaison with appropriate clinical enterprise-wide groups.
• Identifies and supports community outreach, philanthropy and marketing initiatives that may enhance the development of new business or research opportunities.
• Contributes to the advancement of nursing through professional research and scholarly activities.
Leadership:
• Advances vision, direction, and leadership to the cancer service line for patient care and nursing practice
• Collaborates across the Rush System to facilitate excellence in all settings where cancer services are provided to ensure patient needs are met across the continuum of care.
• Collaborates with the Nursing Executive Team, Chief Nursing Officers, Rush System for Health leadership and the Rush University College of Nursing (RUCON) faculty in research and educational activities.
• Executes, in collaboration with system nursing leaders, the work of cancer nursing, across the system through the developed cancer nursing councilor structure.
• Collaborates with service line leadership to provide vision, direction, leadership, and support to the service line nursing staff.
• Promotes the highest standards of nursing practice across all settings and clinical sites in the Rush System for Health cancer service line., including, but not limited to, direct practice-based care, management of telephone triage, tele-health or e-health communications, nurse-managed clinics, community support services, care coordination and transitions of care.
• Acts as a change agent and manages service line change efforts to ensure operational effectiveness.
• Promotes, empowers, and maximizes professional governance structure and demonstrable outcomes in patient care across the cancer service line.
Operational:
• Direct oversight of all nursing operations, fiscal efficiency, and staff across the Rush System for health cancer service line
• Leads program planning, implementation, and evaluation efforts for areas of responsibility both at a strategic and tactical level.
• Leads the design, implementation, and evaluation of process improvement initiatives for nursing cancer services at the system level.
• Integrates and advances nursing services and models of care across the continuum in the Rush System for Health cancer service line.
• Advance the development and implementation of innovation, research, evidence-based practice, and quality and safety initiatives in nursing across the cancer service line.
• Maintains an environment that promotes patient safety, high reliability of processes and quality outcomes.
• Leads consistent, ongoing regulatory and accreditation readiness.
• Assures efficiencies in nursing staffing and resource utilization by comparing internal and external benchmarks as measured by both internal and external productivity measures for responsibility.

Requirements:

  • MSN required, Doctorate preferred.
  • Expertise and progressive experience in management and/or nursing management 7-10 years preferred.
  • Ability to design complex clinical or administrative systems or programs.
  • Established reputation as a nursing leader.

Disclaimer:
The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.

Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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