The Governance & Executive Office Coordinator - Executive Assistant provides highâlevel administrative, operational, and governance support to the CEO, Executive Leadership Team, and Board of Directors. This role serves as a central hub for executive coordination, ensuring seamless communication, efficient workflow, and strong organizational governance practices.
The Coordinator manages executive calendars, prepares briefing materials, supports board and committee meetings, and maintains compliance with governance policies and documentation standards. Acting as a trusted partner to senior leadership, the role requires exceptional judgment, professionalism, and the ability to anticipate needs in a fastâpaced environment.
Required Qualifications
- Associate or bachelor’s degree in related field
- 5–7 years of progressively responsible experience supporting senior executives
- Experience coordinating activities for a Board of Directors, governing body, or senior leadership committees
- Experience coordinating across multiple entities of a community hospital system (e.g., Board, Medical Group, Foundation) preferred
- Experience serving as a liaison with Human Resources on employment-related processes preferred
- Experience coordinating and navigating complex organizational issues within an executive office environment, requiring sound judgement, discretion, and collaboration across multiple stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, healthcare administration, public administration, or related discipline.
Skill Requirements
- Working knowledge of governance processes, meeting protocols, documentation standards and administrative functioning, preferably within a community hospital system, is highly desired.
- Demonstrated technical proficiency with office applications and systems used in executive/governance support and board-level work. Advanced proficiencies with executive calendaring, scheduling, and communication platforms (ex. Outlook, Teams, Zoom) .Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint) to prepare executive materials and board documents and mailings, and correspondence.
- Demonstrated strong organizational, coordination, and time-management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and competing demands
- Handles confidential and sensitive information with discretion and sound judgement
- Communicates clearly and professionally with executives, board members, EA’s, and staff
- Demonstrates professionalism and composure in a fast-paced, changing environment
- Builds trust and positive working relationships through collaboration and reliability
- Coordinates complex activities with accuracy and attention to detail
- Adopts effectively to changing priorities in a dynamic executive environment
Some benefits of working at Augusta Health include:
- Free onsite parking
- Onsite child care
Company Information
Augusta Health is a mission-driven, independent, nonprofit, community health system located in Fishersville Virginia in Virginia’s scenic Shenandoah Valley. Augusta Health offers a full continuum of inpatient and outpatient which includes Augusta Medical Center a 255 bed inpatient facility and Augusta Medical Group which is comprised of 40 practice locations and four urgent care locations.
Equal Opportunity
Augusta Health recruits, hires and promotes qualified candidates for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran or military discharge status, and family medical or genetic information.