Vice Chair, Neurology — Admin & Strategy Lead

Mount Sinai; New York (NY); On-site; USD 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Sinai in New York seeks a Vice Chair for Administration in the Department of Neurology. The VCA serves as senior administrative leader, partnering with the System Chair and Vice Dean to advance clinical, research, and educational missions across the Mount Sinai Health System.

This role navigates a matrixed structure, aligning departmental priorities with enterprise strategy and overseeing finances, operations, faculty affairs, and external relationships across multiple sites.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic partner with the Chair, departmental leadership, Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs, and Mount Sinai Health System leadership to advance the clinical, academic, research, and operational priorities of the Department within the context of the One Mount Sinai strategy.
• Operate with dual accountability to departmental and enterprise leadership, serving as both an advocate for the department and a steward of system-wide priorities.
• Ensure departmental strategies, resource allocations, and operational decisions are aligned with departmental and enterprise goals, aspirations, performance expectations, financial frameworks, and any relevant policies and regulatory requirements.
• Identify growth, performance improvement, and strategic opportunities for the Department; collaborate, support, participate, and/or lead initiatives that enhance clinical, academic, research, and financial performance.
• As relevant, collaborate with relevant Institute Vice Presidents to advance the strategies and activities of MSHS integrated and clinical institutes.
• Provide guidance to department leadership and faculty regarding external business ventures, professional service agreements, and affiliations, collaborating closely with legal counsel and compliance offices to protect MSHS interests.
• Oversee the management of relationships with external for-profit and not-for-profit entities and ensure potential conflicts of interest are identified and appropriately managed.
• Represent the Department on institutional and system committees and serve as a liaison between the Department and School, Hospital, and System leadership.
• Serve as the liaison and departmental point of contact for enterprise-wide administrative initiatives and operational directives, including but not limited to regulatory and compliance-driven requirements, emergency preparedness activities, staff compensation, and bonus programs.
• Translate enterprise policies and operational requirements into department-specific implementation plans, ensuring timely coordination, communication, and execution across all divisions and sites.
• Identify and mitigate operational, financial, regulatory, and reputational risks affecting the Department and/or MSHS.
• Regularly monitor faculty performance compared to MSHS, FPA, and ISMMS standards in areas such as clinical productivity, access, quality, extramural research salary coverage, trainee satisfaction, and others

Job description

Mount Sinai in New York seeks a Vice Chair for Administration in the Department of Neurology. The VCA serves as senior administrative leader, partnering with the System Chair and Vice Dean to advance clinical, research, and educational missions across the Mount Sinai Health System.

This role navigates a matrixed structure, aligning departmental priorities with enterprise strategy and overseeing finances, operations, faculty affairs, and external relationships across multiple sites.