Chief Medical Officer

About LifeLong Medical CareLifeLong Medical Care is one of the East Bay's largest and most established Federally Qualified Health Centers, serving more than 50,000 patients across 15 sites in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Founded in the 1976 as a Berkeley-based human rights organization, LifeLong has spent five decades providing care to and building trust with the communities most underserved by the healthcare system — and that mission remains at the center of everything we do.LifeLong is in an important period of transformation. We are strengthening our clinical leadership, deepening our care strategy, and investing in the systems and people needed to lead the next phase of community health in the East Bay. This is a moment that calls for a Chief Medical Officer who is energized by complexity, grounded in FQHC values, and ready to build.The Opportunity The Chief Medical Officer is a new role on LifeLong's Executive Leadership Team, reporting directly to the CEO. This is a practitioner-leader position: the CMO will maintain an active patient panel while serving as the strategic and operational leader for LifeLong's entire clinical enterprise.The CMO will inherit a strong clinical foundation — skilled providers, deep community roots, and a residency program already underway — and will have the mandate and the resources to take it further. The right candidate will be someone who sees leading a clinical organization not as leaving medicine, but as practicing it at a different scale.What You Will OwnClinical StrategyPartner with the Head of Strategy & Value to develop and finalize a system-wide care strategy that positions LifeLong to lead the next phase of community health in the East Bay Champion a care model grounded in access, equity, and full-spectrum primary care for underserved populations Ensure clinical strategy drives facility, staffing, and partnership decisions — not the other way around Provider Leadership & Team DevelopmentBuild a culture of clinical excellence, peer support, and shared accountability among LifeLong's provider community Lead the recruitment and retention of a fully staffed, mission-aligned provider team — one of the CMO's most important near-term mandates Design and implement a medical leadership development program that supports, retains, and elevates physicians and advanced practice clinicians across all sites Clinical OperationsServe as the clinical leadership partner to the Head of Clinical Operations, bridging care quality and operational efficiency Oversee access standards, patient experience, and clinical workflow design across LifeLong's 15 sites Ensure operational decisions reflect clinical values and patient-centered priorities Medical LeadershipLead all medical providers and a direct reports team including the Deputy Chief Medical Officers, Regional Medical Directors and Specialty Medical Directors Establish clear clinical governance, accountability, and performance structures across the medical provider team Partner with HR and Operations on workforce strategy, compensation, and the systems needed to attract and retain exceptional clinicians Executive LeadershipServe as a full member of the Executive Leadership Team, contributing clinical perspective to enterprise-wide strategy, financial planning, and organizational decisions Represent LifeLong's clinical mission in external partnerships, including with health systems, payers, academic partners, and community organizations