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Director-Medical Education Administration

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Mount Sinai Health Systems

New York, NY, US

3 months ago
full-time
No degree mentioned

Job highlights

Qualification

Minimum of 7 years of related experience in management and leadership. 3-5 years working in higher education. Demonstrated leadership competency and ability to develop productive working relationships with multiple constituencies (faculty, staff, students, etc). Strong team player who promotes cross-team collaboration and inspires team members to work together and contribute. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Strong communications, presentation and writing skills. Excellent organizational and project management skills. Strong technical skills. Initiative to seek alternative approaches and solutions. Demonstrated ability to problem solve, multi-task, and understand the big picture. Commitment to customer service. Ability to enforce standards of professionalism and to resolve conflicts across a broad spectrum (involving faculty, staff, and student needs)

Responsibility

The Director of Curricular Operations will have responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the Office of Curricular Affairs Operations Team in the Department of Medical Education, ensuring that the people and the undergraduate medical education program run efficiently and effectively. The Director of Curricular Operations will report to the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education Affairs. The director will oversee the planning and delivery of operational components of the MD curriculum across all phases of the curriculum. In addition, the director will oversee teams of staff who work closely with faculty to design and implement curricular components that follow strategic goals and accreditation standards. Provide daily guidance to the managers and staff in the Office of Curricular Affairs. Monitors and manages workload for the curricular affairs teams to ensure reasonable utilization. Recruit, train, and mentor staff to uphold high performance standards. Provide flexible approaches that meet team needs, including the ability to move fast and make progress by navigating roadblocks quickly. Define and manage strategic initiatives that improve team efficiency and impact, establishing operational systems and outcomes. Partner with the team to refine and document best practice operating processes, templates, and guidelines ensuring seamless operations. Partners with faculty and staff to ensure the seamless operations of courses, electives, and clerkships throughout the curriculum. Actively oversee and enforce policies and procedures within the school community. Oversee the development, implementation, and upkeep of faculty and student policies. Take charge of coordinating and leading projects, creating detailed plans and directing seamless task integration. Manage relationships with cross-functional partners, such as Student Affairs, Enrollment Services, and Administration. Facilitate relationships between curricular operations teams, move initiatives forward, find resources, escalate and raise concerns to appropriate owners early and resolve open issues that prevent progress. Partner with faculty and staff leadership on establishing effective office communication, information distribution, and cross-team collaboration. Oversee the onboarding of new faculty and residents and continuing education of educators across the health system in partnership with the curricular managers. Coordinate and supervise the implementation of curricular accommodations for medical students identified by the Office of Student Disability Services. Independently identify areas of program improvement and make recommendations on ways to improve program efficiency. Facilitate program efficiency by supporting the Senior Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs, Associate Dean for UME Affairs, and Co-Directors of Curriculum in tasks relating to the curriculum including presentations, meetings, and additional duties as assigned. Contribute to planning and budget tracking, aligning and forecasting resources to support the team. Projects and assigned tasks as required. Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential. Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination

Benefits

  • The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements
  • The salary range for the role is $86772 - $130159 Annually
  • The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits
  • Health Insurance

Job Description

Description

Description The Director of Curricular Operations will have responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the Office of Curricular Affairs Operations Team in the Department of Medical Education, ensuring that the people and the undergraduate medical education program run efficiently and effectively. The Director of Curricular Operations will report to the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education Affairs. The director will oversee the planning and delivery of operational components of the MD curriculum across all phases of the curriculum. In addition, the director will oversee teams of staff who work closely with faculty to design and implement curricular components that follow strategic goals and accreditation standards. Responsibilities • Provide daily guidance to the managers and staff in the Office of Curricular Affairs. • Monitors and manages workload for the curricular affairs teams to ensure reasonable utilization. • Recruit, train, and mentor staff to uphold high performance standards. • Provide flexible approaches that meet team needs, including the ability to move fast and make progress by navigating roadblocks quickly. • Define and manage strategic initiatives that improve team efficiency and impact, establishing operational systems and outcomes. • Partner with the team to refine and document best practice operating processes, templates, and guidelines ensuring seamless operations. • Partners with faculty and staff to ensure the seamless operations of courses, electives, and clerkships throughout the curriculum. • Actively oversee and enforce policies and procedures within the school community. • Oversee the development, implementation, and upkeep of faculty and student policies. • Take charge of coordinating and leading projects, creating detailed plans and directing seamless task integration. • Manage relationships with cross-functional partners, such as Student Affairs, Enrollment Services, and Administration. • Facilitate relationships between curricular operations teams, move initiatives forward, find resources, escalate and raise concerns to appropriate owners early and resolve open issues that prevent progress. • Partner with faculty and staff leadership on establishing effective office communication, information distribution, and cross-team collaboration • Oversee the onboarding of new faculty and residents and continuing education of educators across the health system in partnership with the curricular managers. • Coordinate and supervise the implementation of curricular accommodations for medical students identified by the Office of Student Disability Services • Independently identify areas of program improvement and make recommendations on ways to improve program efficiency. • Facilitate program efficiency by supporting the Senior Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs, Associate Dean for UME Affairs, and Co-Directors of Curriculum in tasks relating to the curriculum including presentations, meetings, and additional duties as assigned. • Contribute to planning and budget tracking, aligning and forecasting resources to support the team. • Projects and assigned tasks as required Qualifications • Bachelors Degree required, Masters degree preferred. • Minimum of 7 years of related experience in management and leadership • 3-5 years working in higher education • Demonstrated leadership competency and ability to develop productive working relationships with multiple constituencies (faculty, staff, students, etc) • Strong team player who promotes cross-team collaboration and inspires team members to work together and contribute. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills • Strong communications, presentation and writing skills. • Excellent organizational and project management skills • Strong technical skills • Initiative to seek alternative approaches and solutions • Demonstrated ability to problem solve, multi-task, and understand the big picture • Commitment to customer service • Ability to enforce standards of professionalism and to resolve conflicts across a broad spectrum (involving faculty, staff, and student needs) Non-Bargaining Unit, 830 - Medical Education - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine Employer Description Strength Through Diversity The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by: • Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential. • Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination. • Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers. At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history! “About the Mount Sinai Health System: Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.” EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans Compensation The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $86772 - $130159 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.