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The School of Medicine has an outstanding opportunity for a Director, Office of Healthcare Equity Operations.
The vision of UW Medicine’s Office of Healthcare Equity is to deliver on the UW Medicine (UWM) mission to improve the health of the public by ensuring that policies and practices focus on equity, social and health justice. The Director, Office of Healthcare Equity Operations is responsible for supporting the executive team in implementing the policies, procedures and practices of the office to expand UW Medicine’s ability to advance healthcare equity. The Director will supervise program operations staff. This position reports to the Chief Equity Officer.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Director, Office of Healthcare Equity Operations works closely with the Office of Healthcare Equity (OHCE) leadership to prioritize and coordinate operational activities and strategies pursuant to the UW Medicine (UWM) Healthcare Equity Blueprint (Blueprint). Operational responsibilities include:
•Oversee financial and budgetary plans to ensure they are implemented as directed by the Chief Equity Officer. This includes oversight and tracking of the OHCE’s spending, and budgetary reviews with program staff to optimize resource allocation.
•Financial management of research and program grants, including working with PI to develop a program budget, facilitation of proposal review by the UW’s Office of Sponsored Projects, budget tracking and reconciliation, and coordination with the UW’s Grant and Contract Accounting office for post-award management and funder reports.
•Manage the human resource functions for the staff assigned to OHCE. This includes, not limited to; recruitment, onboarding performance evaluations, and manage day-to-day staffing, position management including position reclassifications, promotions, and separations.
•Develop standard protocols for operations management and OHCE best practices for all personnel activities. Guide day-to-day operations and ensure OHCE’s employment practices comply with personnel policies and procedures of the University and the School of Medicine.
•Serve as a resource to the Chief Equity Officer, directors, program managers, and staff regarding Human Resources policies and procedures.
•Collaborate with the OHCE leadership to build an environment of collective transparency, responsibility, and accountability.
•Research, create and maintain project management and communication tools to effectively convey pertinent information regarding project plans, timelines, status updates, and materials created for wider dissemination within the School.
•Monitor OHCE’s policies and standards to ensure UWM and the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) regulations are met.
•Monitor day-to-day operational systems and processes that provide visibility into how the OHCE realizes goals, objectives, and strategies pursuant to the Blueprint and annual work plans.
•Represents OHCE to the Medical School Administrator (MSA) group and attends monthly MSA meetings.
•Represents OHCE to other School of Medicine groups including, the space planning unit, and MRAM (Quarterly and Monthly Grant Administrators’ Meeting), and other School of Medicine Personnel/Human Resources meetings.
•Identify and address areas in which the OHCE can improve operations.
•Understand various stakeholder reporting needs and timelines and independently manage dissemination of on-time and high-quality reports.
Facilitate the development of long-term structures and processes conducive to advancing healthcare equity work across UWM, UWSOM, and within the populations we serve.
•Identify UWM personnel across the health system who are critical to realizing the Blueprint’s objectives, strategies, and priorities in a timely manner and in alignment with respective departmental needs.
•Support the OHCE leadership in working with Human Resources and/or other UW partners to lead the OHCE with integrity and establish and sustain a trusting, inclusive, and productive environment.
Evaluate the overall performance of the OHCE by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data and metrics to identify trends, ascertain opportunities for improvement, and optimize working relationships.
•Maximize efficiency, scalability, and productivity of the OHCE’s operations through extensive process analysis and interdepartmental collaboration pursuant to the Blueprint.
•Expand the OHCE’s institutional knowledge as it pertains to realizing healthcare equity and healthcare justice.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
•Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public health, healthcare administration or related field.
•Minimum of five years of management experience in a large, complex organization and at least three years of program and/or project management experience in a higher education or healthcare setting.
Additional requirements:
•Experience supervising administrative and/or program staff.
•Demonstrated experience in directing complex public health, healthcare, educational, or business operations.
•Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
•Demonstrated experience in building positive and productive relationships with diverse teams and in coordinating successful inter-departmental collaborations.
•Experience making independent decisions on matters of significance, free from immediate direction, and within the scope of responsibilities.
•Resiliency, agility, and ability to work in fast-paced, dynamic environment and under time constraints.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and implement needed process improvements.
•Strong administrative and organizational skills with the ability to provide leadership, direction and supervision of programs, and to staff.
•Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills and the ability to independently determine appropriate and effective communication for a variety of audiences.
•Knowledge of healthcare reform issues and transformation of care implementation in large scale healthcare organizations.
•Working knowledge of methodologies and data analysis techniques employed in healthcare equity-related research and an understanding of relevant metrics for assessing healthcare equity disparities.
DESIRED REQUIREMENTS
•MBA, MHA or related master’s degree.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
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