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Providence St. Joseph Health Executive Director Interpreter Services in Renton, Washington

Description Calling All Esteemed Leaders! This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a systemwide transformation that directly advances health equity, patient safety, and operational excellence. The leader in this role will shape how Providence delivers equitable, culturally responsive care to patients who are Limited English Proficient (LEP), deaf, or hard of hearing-at enterprise scale. The Role: The Universal Language Access Plan (ULAP) initiative supports Providence's mission to deliver safe, timely, and equitable care for all patients. This role plays a critical leadership function in operationalizing a standardized, enterprise Language Access program-replacing a fragmented model of more than 50 vendors and inconsistent workflows with a unified, governed, and measurable operating framework. The position contributes to systemwide improvements in patient safety, care experience, and caregiver workflow efficiency by supporting the design, implementation, and oversight of enterprise language access solutions. Responsibilities span strategy, governance, operations, technology, vendor management, and financial stewardship. This role ensures Providence delivers equitable, compliant, and culturally responsive care while advancing enterprise transformation and operational excellence across hospitals, clinics, and health plans. This position requires some travel, but is primarily remote with options for being based out of our key, system locations: Lubbock, Irvine, Portland, Spokane, Santa Rosa or Renton. What You'll Do: Enterprise Strategy, Governance & System Leadership Set the enterprise vision, strategy, and governance model for Language Access across the health system, ensuring alignment with Providence's Mission, system priorities, and longrange planning. Lead development of the enterprise Language Access operating model, including policies, standards, workflows, performance expectations, and accountability structures. Strengthen patient safety by defining standards and workflows that reduce communicationrelated risk and improve accuracy, documentation, and clinical decisionmaking. Establish enterprise performance monitoring systems and lead continuous improvement efforts to remove friction in caregiver workflows and patient experience. Serve as the primary executive leader for enterprise Language Access councils, governance bodies, and crossfunctional workgroups. Ensure alignment with Title VI, ADA/Section 504, CLAS Standards, Joint Commission requirements, and statelevel regulations. Team Leadership & Capability Building Provide full leadership accountability for modality managers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and development. Establish competency models, quality expectations, and certification standards for interpreters and translators. Oversee enterprise strategy for interpreter certification and credentialing in partnership with HR, Compliance, Clinical Education, and Learning & Development. Model cultural fluency and inclusive leadership reflective of Providence's diverse communities, including highvolume Spanishspeaking populations. Change Leadership, Training & Adoption Lead enterprise change strategy to ensure consistent adoption of Language Access standards, tools, and workflows. Partner with HR, Learning & Development, Clinical Education, and ministry leadership to define training requirements, communications, and readiness plans. Improve caregiver experience by reducing access barriers, standardizing tools, and simplifying workflows. Oversee systemwide rollout of platforms, governance models, service standards, and quality frameworks. Serve as executive sponsor for Language Access Advisors and Champions across ministries. Modality Strategy, Standards & System Oversight Spoken Lan

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