Director of Finance and Administration, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Stanford Blood Center; Stanford (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a Director of Finance and Administration to lead financial and operational strategies within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. This pivotal role requires a mission-driven leader with a strong background in financial management and strategic planning. The ideal candidate will excel in fostering collaborative relationships, guiding a diverse team, and ensuring the department's financial health. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to transforming healthcare through innovative practices and compassionate care, making a meaningful impact on the lives of patients and their families.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• 5+ years of managerial experience with financial and budget preparation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee financial success and manage annual budget processes.
• Lead and develop staff while ensuring compliance with policies.
• Collaborate on strategic planning and operational initiatives.

Skills

Leadership and Management

Financial Management

Strategic Planning

Communication Skills

Conflict Resolution

Education

Master’s degree (MBA, Public Health, Health Care Informatics)

Tools

Budget Management Software

Job description

Our Purpose

Stanford Medicine is leading the biomedical revolution in precision health and medicine. We are transforming health care away from after-the-fact diagnosis to prediction and prevention and away from one-size-fits-all medicine to personalized care that empowers individuals to lead healthy lives. We are leveraging the art and science of medicine to predict and prevent disease before it strikes and cure it decisively if it does.

To achieve our Precision Health vision, we are integrating, building, and leveraging our strengths in fundamental research, the new field of biomedical data science, and nine transformative biomedical platforms. As a learning health system, we will apply these advances in our hospitals and health care delivery systems within Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health.

Our Values

Fulfilling our promise to humanity requires the engagement of a diverse, creative, and collaborative team of professionals who work together to advance our research, education, and patient care mission. We are looking for leaders who can contribute to making excellence inclusive. We strive to create a culture of inclusion and belonging to ensure all employees have the meaningful employment experience necessary to do their best work. We value and integrate justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion into all we do to ensure equitable outcomes for our faculty, staff, and trainees. In particular, the work of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) is guided by the values of excellence and innovation, diversity and collaboration, respect and integrity, and passion and compassion.

Our Work

The Department of Ob/Gyn improves the health of women and people of all genders through innovative and compassionate care, education, advocacy, and discovery. Our faculty practices medicine in world-class hospitals and are internationally recognized for the medical, surgical, and reproductive Obstetric and Gynecologic care they provide to their patients. Our faculty is committed to the highest level of basic and clinical research in Obstetric and Gynecologic science, and our staff is dedicated to providing the support and structure to facilitate our department’s success. In particular, we are focused on innovative translational medicine; bringing scientific results from the bench to the bedside. Our vision is to be local and global leaders, advancing and transforming the health of women and people of all genders across the lifespan.

The DFA must be an experienced leader with a strong ability to strategically and tactically manage Ob/Gyn’s finance and administrative operations. They must understand a multitude of functional areas while also demonstrating the soft skills, including high emotional intelligence, strong communication skills and conflict resolution abilities, to engage, develop, and lead faculty and staff through change. They must be mission-driven to support the work of the department, and its faculty, staff, and trainees with demonstrated values of empathy, compassion, honesty, and integrity in all interactions. Critical to the department and individual success, they must effectively partner with key stakeholders across the Stanford School of Medicine and affiliated hospitals to achieve organizational goals and results.

Reporting Relationships

The Director of Finance and Administration (DFA) has a primary reporting relationship to the Chair of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, with a secondary reporting relationship to the Associate Dean/Chief Financial Officer for the School of Medicine (SoM), which ensures organizational alignment between Ob/Gyn’s strategy and the broader SoM mission. The DFA partners with the Chair and other faculty and staff to manage the financial and administrative areas of the department to include clinical revenue and productivity management, hospital relationships, grant management, faculty and academic affairs, student affairs, external relations, and human resources.

Job Summary

Strategic and Operational Planning

1. Works in collaboration with the chair and other leadership on strategic planning and other projects, as requested.
2. Develops, administers, and communicates strategic and operational plans to support the vision, mission, values and strategic plan of the department and school.
3. Develop financial and operational plans for new departmental strategic initiatives, with a focus on execution, implementation, and scaling of these initiatives.
4. Partner with faculty and staff leadership on departmental affairs and advocate the unit’s needs and goals to internal and external parties.

Financial Management

1. Ensure the financial success of the organization. Oversee and/or manage the finances across all sources for the annual budget cycle.
2. Ensure resources are allocated appropriately and recommend strategies for cost containment.
3. Oversee the annual budget process in collaboration with the Associate Director of Finance, faculty, and administrative leadership.
4. Provide strategic advice on the funds flow between SHC, SMCH, and the department.

People Management and Leadership

1. Responsible for hiring and retaining staff, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and ensuring required training is completed.
2. Direct staff and provide leadership to achieve goals and vision of the organization.
3. Represents the department on committees and collaborates with various leadership levels on projects.

Operations Management and Leadership

1. Direct department operations and evaluate business processes to ensure productivity and performance.
2. Interpret, implement, and ensure compliance with the unit's academic and administrative policies.
3. Manage the direction of internal academic and administrative policy development.

Minimum Required Education and Experience

Master’s degree (MBA, Public Health, Health Care Informatics or related field) or combination of education and relevant experience. Five years of progressively responsible managerial experience, including financial and budget preparation. Three years of supervisory experience.

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Leading (Navigation and Communication)

1. Demonstrated knowledge, skill, experience, and abilities in leadership and management.
2. Cultivate strong partnerships and relationships with faculty and staff.
3. Work cooperatively with diverse individuals and treat everyone with respect.

Planning (Vision, Mission, and Strategy)

1. Evaluate the internal and external environment and craft strategic responses.
2. Formulate and execute strategic plans of significant complexity and scope.

Desired Skills:

1. Experience working with RVU based costing methodologies used in healthcare.
2. Experience managing NIH and NIS portfolios.

Physical Requirements:

1. Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks.
2. Frequently sitting.

Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.