Senior Director-Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery

Senior Director-Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. MBA, MHA, etc.) or equivalent high-level leadership experience.
• At least seven (7) years of experience in leadership positions in health-related organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary environment with physician, scientist, educator, administrative, supervisory, and allied health staff.
• Demonstrated experience with managing a complicated and complex organization with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong financial and funds flow experience and acumen managing various sources of funding streams.
• High-level communication skills.
• Ability to exercise resourcefulness and good judgment in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage multiple streams of work.
• Demonstrated excellent analytical skills, problem-solving ability and strong critical thinking skills.
• Proven success in operational excellence and performance improvement.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Chair and Department Senior Leadership to develop and implement a strategic plan for growing and developing a sustainable business plan for the Department.
• Develop and manage policies and strategies needed to implement the Departments’ vision for clinical, educational and research program development.
• Support the design of programs and associated funding proposals.
• Develop, implement & manage clinical productivity, financials and reporting dashboards.
• Responsible for management of daily operations at the department or division level, ensuring alignment with the institutional strategic plan and objectives.
• Oversee and manage the Departments’ financials including: Develop financial strategies including revenue and charge capture optimization, prepare, direct and manage the department operating budgets and accounts, and present monthly, quarterly and annual financial/strategic reports to Dell Med leadership.
• Serves as the senior department leader and ambassador to interface with Dell Med/University of Texas Medical Center shared services teams to assure industry-leading best practices on financial, human resources, compliance and legal management of services.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with Dell Medical’s partners leaders/stakeholders and other community-based organizations to align on priorities and partnerships when opportunities are identified.
• Lead for developing and managing clinical contracts with external partners; oversee contract invoicing for the department.
• Oversee faculty compensation plan and all financial functions including FTE cost allocations, contracting, invoicing, purchasing and financial reporting.
• Oversee the departments’ use of space, including assignment, ensuring efficiency use, maintenance, and coordination of renovations.
• Provide administrative leadership of department education programs, strategic planning and education infrastructure.
• Partner with the Chair, residency program director, medical student director, faculty and staff to plan, guide, and direct programs and teams to carry out the education mission of the Department.
• Partner with the Education pillar to efficiently streamline and support the education mission.
• Provide administrative leadership and works in partnership with Research Administration for all extramural research processes, including clinical trials, grant submissions and pre/post award activities.
• Serves as point of contact for principal investigators’ business and administrative needs.
• In partnership with leadership and development team at Dell Med, develop and implement a strategic plan aligned with the institution’s strategic plan to ensure alignment with the mission of the department and institution with philanthropic donors, foundations and non-profit entities.
• Work with appropriate entities to develop and manage agreements, contracts and reporting.
• Serves and performs in broader institutional assignments/task forces and committees as assigned depending on competency mastery, capacity and workload.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Organization building experience.
• Large-scale implementation experience.
• Previous experience in a surgical department or departments working directly with surgeons in academic medicine is strongly preferred, including managerial expertise in clinical, academic, faculty affairs, training program administration, and/or clinical program development and operations in an academic setting.
• Previous experience in a Cardiac surgery, Cardiac-Cardiology service line, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery department or division.
• Experience and knowledge of Dell Medical financial and academic policies, processes and systems.