Chief Operations Officer (Fort Collins)

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$150,010.00/yr - $187,512.00/yr

• Salary Range: $178,000 - $202,000 annually, based on relevant years of experience
• Status: Full time, 40 hours per week
  

• Salary Range: $178,000 - $202,000 annually, based on relevant years of experience
• Location: Larimer county, Colorado
• Status: Full time, 40 hours per week
  

Role Overview
Responsible for providing strategic leadership and operational oversight across the agency’s non-clinical functions to ensure the efficient, compliant, and mission-driven delivery of effective high-quality behavioral health services. This role directs core operational areas and partners closely with the CEO and executive leadership to drive strategic initiatives, strengthen infrastructure that supports integrated care, and promote organizational effectiveness through data informed decision making. The COO leads policy development, regulatory readiness, and operational planning efforts that align with agency-wide goals. The COO plays a vital role in advancing SHP’s mission and impact across Northern Colorado. This position will demonstrate a commitment and provide leadership for Summitstone Health Partner’s values by delivering visionary and operational leadership while fostering trust, collaboration, and a diverse and inclusive environment.
Essential Duties

• Provide strategic leadership across core business and operational areas including facilities, information technology, information systems, licensing, compliance, quality assurance, business intelligence, and administrative systems to ensure organizational efficiency and scalability.
• Collaborate with the CEO and executive leadership to develop and implement strategic initiatives that support the organization’s growth, sustainability, and mission aligned objectives.
• Direct and maintain organizational compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations (e.g., CARF, CCBHC, ADA, OSHA), to ensure operational policies and infrastructure support regulatory excellence.
• Identify and implement systems and process improvements that promote cross-departmental efficiency, streamline internal operations, and reduce administrative burden across programs.
• Partner with Finance, HR, and program leadership to align operational planning with budget development, workforce needs, and organizational capacity, ensuring resource optimization and financial stability.
• Collaborate with clinical and program leaders to build and maintain the operational infrastructure necessary to support integrated models of behavioral health, substance use treatment, and primary care.
• Lead efforts to track, analyze, and act on key performance indicators related to service efficiency, resource utilization, administrative productivity, and operational effectiveness.
• Oversee the creation, maintenance, and delivery of organizational policies and operational procedures that support compliance, consistency, and a high standard of support services.
• Deliver high-impact presentations and strategic insights to the Board of Directors, leadership teams, and stakeholders while modeling a collaborative, values-based, and inclusive leadership style.
• Represent SummitStone in operational matters with community partners, government agencies, vendors, and funders to support strategic initiatives and reinforce organizational credibility.
  

Required

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Public Administration, or related field required
• More than 10 years of senior leadership experience in behavioral health, healthcare, or a complex nonprofit environment required
• Demonstrated experience overseeing multi-site operations and leading cross-functional teams
• Proven success in strategic planning, compliance leadership, and organizational development.
  

Highly Desired

• Bilingual/bi-cultural preferred
  

At SummitStone Health Partners, we strive to foster trust, empower recovery, and inspire hope to strengthen and enrich our Northern Colorado community.
We need your help to make this vision a reality.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic self. We actively seek team members with a variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences, and we honor the whole self—embracing differences in race, ethnicity, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, socioeconomic status, language, and the many intersections of identity. We invite everyone to be part of our journey and proudly serve as an equal opportunity employer.
Please visit summitstone.org for more information about who we are.
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SummitStone will provide persons with disabilities with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or selection process, please let your recruiter know.
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This position will be open for a minimum of three days and/or until a top candidate is identified.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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