Director of Operations, School of Medicine / Internal Medicine

Summary:

The School of Medicine’s largest department, Internal Medicine, is recruiting a Director of Operations to provide operational management and support to the department’s 11 sub-specialty divisions, which are fundamentally supported by nine Associate Administrators. The Director will be responsible for the strategic management, planning, policy formation, and implementation of programs and/or services to ensure daily and long-term objectives are met. The incumbent will work in collaboration with departmental and divisional senior leadership to develop strategic operations processes.

Core Responsibilities

• Partners with the Sr. Administrator in the oversight of the day-to-day operations of the 11 sub-specialty divisions including: strategic planning, clinical operations, ambulatory and hospital alignment, human resources, business development, recruitment and other components of the departments’ mission
• Establish synchronicity of business processed across all components of the tripartite mission

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Extensive knowledge of financial, operations and administrative policies and procedures
• Exceptional decision-making skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
• Ability to design, manage, and implement programs
• Experience serving as a leader by building, leading, motivating, and assessing teams
• Experience in holding employees accountable for individual results and drive overall effectiveness of team
• Demonstrate ability to plan and direct the implementation and modification of technological components of multiple functional areas
• Demonstrate ability to collect, analyze, and interpret information
• Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff and student environment or commitment to do so as a staff member at VCU

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree
• 10 years’ relevant professional experience

Position is Open Until Filled

ORP Eligible: Yes

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine is a premier academic medical center located in the heart of Richmond. Accounting for almost half of VCU’s sponsored research, the School of Medicine is internationally recognized for patient care and education. All full-time university staff are eligible for our generous benefits package that includes choices for health, vision, and dental coverage, life-insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, retirement planning, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, flexible spending accounts, tuition benefits, significant paid-time off, 12 paid holidays, and more. Explore our benefits further here: https://hr.vcu.edu/current-employees/benefits/university-and-academic-professional-benefits/

VCU is committed to hiring veterans! VCU will include a veteran's period(s) of military service in the calculation of their annual leave accrual rate. This may provide veterans with an increased leave accrual!

Virginia Commonwealth University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action university providing access to education and employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, political affiliation, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability.

Please note that if you are employed as a university employee working in any of the health system's facilities, you will need to follow VCU Health System policies, which will include but will not be limited to, vaccination requirements.

The School of Medicine continuously strives for our workplace and learning environment to reflect the demographic and social milieu of the communities we serve. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.

UNIVERSITY JOB CODE: Sr./Director Administration GA - Open (19411Y - 19416Y)