Senior Director, Academic and Medical Affairs

Sinai Health; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A health organization in Ontario is seeking a Senior Director for Academic and Medical Affairs. This role involves overseeing professional staff initiatives, managing complex operational tasks, and collaborating with senior leadership to advance health priorities. The ideal candidate has extensive administrative experience in healthcare and possesses strong organizational and interpersonal skills, playing a key role in guiding the institution's strategic direction.

Qualifications

• 7 years of progressive senior administrative/management experience.
• Ability to manage competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience dealing with confidential and sensitive situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level support for strategic initiatives.
• Oversee financial operations of Academic and Medical Affairs Office.
• Manage new staff appointment and reappointment processes.
• Coordinate professional staff communications and community initiatives.

Skills

Exceptional organizational and time management skills

Ability to work independently and strategically

Strong inter-personal skills

Superior project management and leadership skills

Skilled in database management and optimization

Education

University Degree specializing in Health Administration or relevant field

Job description

Overview

Job Description

Few opportunities combine complexity, meaning, and influence the way this one does. As the Senior Director, Academic and Medical Affairs at Sinai Health, you’ll partner closely with the Executive Vice President of Academic and Medical Affairs to shape system-level priorities and decisions. This role is especially compelling because it allows you to engage regularly with Departmental Chiefs, senior physician leaders, senior leadership, staff physicians, employees, and external partners, to lead a diverse portfolio spanning clinical, academic, and operational domains across two academic teaching hospital settings. This role connects governance with day-to-day practice and the development of future health professionals. For a system-minded leader, it’s a direct avenue to advance hospital priorities with lasting impact.

Is this you?

You are a strategic thinker who considers the broader system when advancing priorities. In this role, that means assessing how academic initiatives, operational needs, and governance processes intersect, and advising the EVP accordingly. You bring order to complex issues by identifying what will drive the greatest impact and ensuring resources align with those goals. This perspective ensures priorities are advanced in ways that strengthen the institution as a whole. You can nimbly prioritize and organize to navigate both time-sensitive and longer term objectives.

If you are someone who values collaboration and diplomacy, this role gives you opportunities to put those skills into practice. Whether managing communications that affect the professional staff community, or guiding professionalism processes where fairness and sensitivity are essential, you navigate and optimize complex situations with care. By combining clear communication with meaningful collaboration, you help ensure stakeholders feel engaged and supported. This helps foster a professional culture grounded in respect and accountability.

Thriving in this position requires a strong foundation in operational leadership. From managing credentialing and reappointment processes to overseeing financial operations to building organizational development processes, you play a central role in shaping how professional staff are supported and how resources are directed. Few roles offer this degree of connection between people and systems. Your ability to guide these operations with precision creates the foundation on which care, education, and research can advance together.

About this team

The Academic & Medical Affairs Office provides oversight and leadership for all credentialed staff (Physicians, Dentists, and Midwives) affiliated with Sinai Health, including professional practice, leadership development and wellness. We engage directly with Department Chiefs and other medical leaders on work related to quality, informatics, education, scholarship and professionalism.

In this role you will

• Provide senior-level administrative and project management support for the EVP on strategic, hospital-wide and professional staff initiatives
• Manage and oversee new professional staff appointment and reappointment processes at Sinai Health, ensuring alignment with best practices and legislative requirements
• Manage Academic and Medical Affairs Office financial operations
• Partner on professional staff communications, wellness initiatives and community building initiatives
• Provide senior-level administrative coordination to support EVP involvement in physician leadership recruitment, relevant departmental or leadership position reviews and academic chair oversight
• Manage processes related to Sinai Health's professionalism processes
• Manage Academic and Medical Affairs Office communications, wellness initiatives and professional staff community events
• Provide coordinating support to the Professional Staff Association and Medical Advisory Committee
• Perform other duties consistent with the job classification as required

Job Requirements

Job Requirements : Mandatory

• Successful completion of a University Degree specializing in Health Administration, Quality Improvement or other relevant field from an accredited educational institution
• 7 years of progressive senior administrative / management experience Applicants with proven equivalent, recent and related training and experience may be considered

Preferred

• Previous experience in a health care environment

Skills and Knowledge

• Exceptional organizational and time management skills, with proven ability to prioritize and manage competing demands
• Ability to work independently and strategicallyin a complex, fast-paced and variable environment
• Superior judgement skills, tact, and diplomacy, with experience in dealing with highly confidential and sensitive situations and information
• Strong inter-personal skills, to collaborate effectively with individuals at all levels within the organization as well as external contacts
• Superior project management and leadership skills
• Skilled in the areas ofdatabase managementand optimization
• Demonstrated satisfactory work performance and attendance history