Southcentral Foundation is an Alaska Native-owned 501(c)(3) nonprofit health care corporation delivering comprehensive outpatient and inpatient regional health services to more than 70,000 Alaska Native and American Indian peoples living in the Indian Health Service’s Anchorage Service Unit. Southcentral Foundation also provides a wide array of statewide outpatient and inpatient health services to more than 155,000 Alaska Native and American Indian peoples living throughout Alaska.
Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka System of Care
Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka System of Care (Nuka) is a relationship-based, customer-owned approach to transforming health care, improving outcomes, and reducing costs.
Recipient of the 2011 and 2017 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Please visit SCF’s website for more information about its awards and recognition.
The Mission
Vision: A Native Community that enjoys physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellness.
Mission: Working together with the Native Community to achieve wellness through health and related services.
Goals: Shared Responsibility | Commitment to Quality | Family Wellness | Operational Excellence
SCF is internationally recognized for its relationship-based Nuka System of Care, which emphasizes shared responsibility, continuity, and whole-person wellness.
Relationships
When care teams build strong relationships with customer-owners, providers better understand the health issues, social factors, and family history that customer-owners experience and gives them the opportunity to make healthier choices in their lives. In addition to these relationships, SCF employees build strong relationships with each other and SCF maintains a strong relationship with the community.
Partnership and collaboration
SCF works together with customer-owners as active partners. We are all on this journey together. Every aspect of SCF’s Nuka System of Care is driven by customer-owners, from customer-ownership and health care delivery systems to facility design, process, quality improvement and infrastructure.
With a population of nearly 300K residents, Anchorage is home to nearly 40% of Alaska’s population and is the center of the state’s urban life. Anchorage combines city amenities with the striking natural beauty that Alaska is famous for, including downtown salmon runs, miles of hiking trails, and the opportunity to see the Northern Lights. Located in Southern Alaska in the Cook Inlet region, Anchorage is also one of the warmest areas of the state with temperatures approaching 80 F in Summer. Anchorage also has a major international airport, making it a well-connected location with regular flights to many locations and just three hours from Seattle. Anchorage provides city life with easy access to hiking, camping, and fishing. Anchorage is the ideal hub to explore Alaska from.
There are 229 federally recognized Tribes and 20 Indigenous languages spoken in the State of Alaska. The Dena’ina Athabascan people, are the original inhabitants of Southcentral Alaska, and Anchorage is traditional Dena’ina homeland. In 2024, the Anchorage School District estimated 112 different languages spoken by students or their families at home. The top five languages apart from English were Spanish, Samoan, Filipino, Hmong, and Yupik.
SCF’s Vice President, Specialty Division is responsible for the executive leadership, operational oversight, and strategic direction of the Specialty Division. The Vice President leads a division consisting of 17 departments, approximately 588 FTEs, and an operating budget exceeding $100 million, with responsibility for services across both inpatient and outpatient specialty care operations. The Specialty Division leadership team reporting to this position includes an Operations Director, Service Line Medical Director, and Nursing Director. This position reports directly to the Executive Vice President, Specialty Group.
The Vice President serves as a member of SCF’s executive leadership team, chaired by the President/CEO, and together guide and lead the organization in alignment with SCF’s mission, vision, and strategic priorities. The Vice President is responsible for ensuring shared responsibility, commitment to excellence, family wellness, and operational excellence across the division and the organization.
Compensation + Benefits
Southcentral Foundation offers competitive compensation and benefits package, which is inclusive of but not limited to the following:
Generous paid time off begins accruing upon hire at 5.2 weeks the first two years and moves to 6.5 weeks of PTO after two years of employment.
13 paid holidays with no waiting period
Employee wellness leave
Retirement program with a generous employer match of 4% and an additional discretionary contribution once yearly based on employees’ compensation.
Comprehensive coverage includes 22 federal health care plan options for medical and optional dental and vision coverage.
Flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, and health reimbursement account options.
100% coverage of premiums for short-term disability, long-term disability, employee basic life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.
Supplemental life and AD&D options for employees, spouses, and children. Supplemental long-term disability for highly compensated employees
Candidates are encouraged to express interest early in the process. This recruitment is considered “open” until filled. For first consideration, submit your application by July 6, 2026.
Alaska Native/American Indian Preference in Employment
Pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, as amended, SCF pursues a policy of Alaska Native/American Indian preference in hiring, contracting, and training.
The “Ideal Candidate” will possess the following experience, skills, and leadership attributes:
Experience as a high-level executive overseeing large scale and complex service lines and operations.
Experience working in complex healthcare environments, including community-based healthcare organizations, accountable care organizations, large vertically integrated health systems, rural and remote healthcare, and/or hospitals.
Experience in executive oversight of outpatient clinical programs, as well as understanding of inpatient clinical programs.
A strong advocate of Southcentral Foundation and its mission.
Collaborative leadership and the ability to work with internal and external stakeholders at various levels by cultivating relationships.
Passion for a community owned healthcare model driven by the voice of customer owners.
A strategic, innovative, creative, forward-thinking mindset to help push the organization forward.
Must meet one of the following:
Master’s degree in health or business field.
MD or DO degree with appropriate board certification and three (3) years of experience as a practicing physician.
Master’s degree in Mental Health with three (3) years of experience as a practicing clinician.
Master’s degree in nursing with three (3) years of experience as practicing nurse required.
Equivalent training and experience may be substituted for master’s degree.
Five (5) years of health care management experience or demonstrated proficiency working in a director level position at SCF.
