This position is incentive eligible.
At Galen College of Nursing, we educate and empower nurses to change lives. Since 1989, we’ve dedicated our work to delivering high-quality nursing education with a student-first mindset. As one of the largest private nursing colleges in the country, we combine the support of a close-knit learning environment with the strength of a nationally recognized institution, HCA Healthcare.
That same passion for excellence in the classroom extends to our offices. At Galen, you’ll find a culture deeply rooted in collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to improving the future of healthcare. Your work directly touches the next generation of nurses, and your contributions help our students pursue their dream of a compassionate career.
If you’re looking for a career where you can make a difference, grow professionally, and be part of a caring team, we’d love for you to apply for the Senior Director of Culture and Engagement position today!
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Position Overview:
As a Senior Director of Culture and Engagement at Galen College of Nursing, you will lead enterprise strategies that bring Galen's mission, values, history, and culture model to life across the institution. In partnership with the Chief Clinical, Integration, and Experience Officer, this role builds scalable systems and experiences that strengthen employee engagement, belonging, recognition, leadership behaviors, service excellence, and culture consistency across campuses and functions. The Senior Director serves as a cross-functional culture leader, using employee insights and organizational data to guide activation and continuous improvement as Galen grows and evolves.
Key Responsibilities:
- Translate Galen's enterprise culture strategy, mission, and values into observable behaviors, standards, tools, experiences, and implementation plans for leaders, faculty, staff, and campus teams.
- Develop and implement enterprise employee engagement, belonging, recognition, and listening strategies, and partner with leaders to convert feedback into measurable local and institution-wide improvements.
- Lead culture-specific onboarding, orientation, immersion, and reinforcement experiences, partnering with Organizational Learning & Experience to embed culture and expected leadership behaviors throughout the employee lifecycle.
- Partner with academic, clinical, operational, student experience, and administrative leaders to establish and reinforce service-excellence principles, strengthen cross-functional handoffs, and improve employee and student experiences.
- Develop and lead a scalable network of campus and functional Culture Champions, including expectations, training, resources, communication mechanisms, feedback loops, and approaches for scaling effective practices.
- Build cross-functional governance and partnerships across Human Resources, Organizational Learning & Experience, Academics, Clinical, Operations, Student Experience, Communications, and other functions to create shared accountability and minimize duplication.
- Shape culture communications and storytelling that connect day-to-day work with Galen's mission, history, values, students, and organizational purpose while creating opportunities for open dialogue and feedback.
- Establish culture and engagement measures, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms; analyze qualitative and quantitative data; evaluate program effectiveness; and provide findings and recommendations to executive leadership. Performs other duties as assigned
Position Requirements:
Required
- Master's degree in organizational leadership, business administration, human resources, education, organizational development, communications, hospitality, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- Seven or more years of progressive experience in organizational culture, employee engagement, organizational development, leadership development, employee experience, service excellence, change management, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing culture or employee-experience initiatives within a complex organization.
- Experience supporting initiatives across multiple locations, departments, business units, or geographically dispersed teams.
Preferred
- Experience within The Walt Disney Company, Disney Institute, Disney University, Disney Parks & Resorts, or another organization recognized for operational culture and service excellence.
- Experience in Disney-related organizational development, leadership development, learning, employee/cast engagement, service excellence, facilitation, or operations.
- Experience within higher education, healthcare, another regulated industry, or an organization with a significant frontline workforce.
- Experience developing leadership onboarding, employee onboarding, recognition systems, employee-listening strategies, service standards, or culture-champion networks.
- Certification or formal development in change management, organizational development, coaching, employee experience, human resources, learning and development, or a related discipline.
Skills & Competencies
- Translates organizational values and strategic priorities into practical programs, behaviors, standards, and operating practices.
- Influences and builds effective partnerships across functions and organizational levels without relying solely on formal authority.
- Facilitates and presents effectively and communicates complex ideas through clear, compelling storytelling and interpersonal communication.
- Uses qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate programs, identify opportunities, recommend interventions, and guide continuous improvement.
- Applies strong project and change-management capabilities to move strategies from concept through implementation and sustained adoption.
- Balances enterprise consistency with local activation across a geographically dispersed organization
Benefits
At Galen College of Nursing, we want to ensure your needs are met. We offer a comprehensive package of medical, dental, and vision plans, tuition discounts, along with unique benefits, including:
- Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
- Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance, and more.
- Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical, and financial well-being
- 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
- Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
- Referral services for children, elders, and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning, and more.
- Consumer discounts through Abenity.
- Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services, and preferred banking partnerships.
- Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships).
- Colleague recognition program.
- Time Away from Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence).
- Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
Galen College of Nursing is recognized as a 2023 National League of Nursing (NLN) Center of Excellence (COE).
Galen’s Compassionate Care Model Values
- Inclusivity: I foster an environment that provides opportunity for every individual to reach their full potential.
- Character: I act with integrity and compassion in all I do.
- Accountability: I own my role and accept responsibility for my actions.
- Respect: I value every person as an individual with unique contributions worthy of consideration.
- Excellence: I commit myself to the highest level of quality in everything I do.
Learn more about our vision and mission.
Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below:
Senior Director of Culture and Engagement
Galen College of Nursing
