Director of Finance and Administration, Biomedical Data Science (DFA2)🔍School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States📁Administration📅Feb 16, 2024 Post Date📅102284 Requisition #
Our Purpose
Stanford Medicine is leading the biomedical revolution in precision health. 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 strive to create a culture of inclusion and belonging to ensure all employee have the meaningful employment experience that is necessary to do their best work. We value and integrate justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion into all that we do to ensure equitable outcomes for our faculty, staff, and students. We are looking for leaders who can contribute to making excellence inclusive.
Our Work
The Department of Biomedical Data Science (DBDS) gathers the brightest people to work collaboratively, across academic disciplines, harnessing the power of biomedical informatics, biostatistics, computer science, and advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revolutionize health care. We are driven by a deep commitment to knowledge and education and a strong desire to explore the boundaries of what is possible and thereby transform science.
As one of 19 Clinical departments and 12 Basic Science departments within the School of Medicine (SoM), DBDS has a total annual budget of $20 million, over 67 faculty and staff and over 110 graduate students working towards Stanford's innovative culture: cross-disciplinary interests and a collaborative approach generate a prime incubation environment for transformative thought, learnings, processes, and systems.
The DFA must be an experienced operational leader with a strong ability to support strategic long-range planning activities.He or she must understand a multitude of functional areas while also demonstrating the soft skills of collaboration and working across the organization to create cultural and operational change.
Reporting Relationships
The Director of Finance and Administration (DFA) has a primary reporting relationship to the Chair of Department of Biomedical Data Science, with a secondary reporting relationship to the Associate Dean/Chief Financial Officer for the School of Medicine, which ensures organizational alignment between DBDS' strategy and the broader SoM mission. The DFA partners with the chair and other faculty to manage the financial and administrative areas of the department to include grant management, faculty and academic affairs, student affairs, external relations, and human resources. Additionally, the Director of Finance and Administration will work with the Chair on areas of strategic planning, grant portfolio development, educational programs and process excellence. The DFA partners with the Associate Dean/Chief Financial Officer, peers, and cross-functional teams to enhance the SoM's operations in support its' research, teaching, and patient care mission.
Job Summary
Strategic partnership with Chair to enable crosscutting programs (e.g., AI Tumor Board, AI Molecular Diagnostics, AI Faculty Cluster Hires) involving multiple departments, institutes and organizations across Stanford Medicine
Minimum Required Education and Experience
Master's degree (BA, Health Care Administration, Public health 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
Demonstrated experience implementing financial funding concepts and regulatory agency policies and guidelines throughout multiple unit(s). Working knowledge of grants and contract administration.
Strong negotiation and effective interpersonal skills.
Excellent communication skills. Able to influence people, solve problems, troubleshoot, think creatively and resolve conflicts.
Ability to establish a culture of integrity within their unit(s) and with those external to the unit.
Demonstrate to others that he/she is direct, truthful and credible.
Demonstrated skills as a receptive listener, influential and persuasive and seeks to understand the differing sides of each situation. Makes decisions effectively and decisively.
Demonstrated expertise in business and management concepts.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS*:
* - 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 the job.
WORKING CONDITIONS: WORK STANDARDS:
The expected pay range for this position is $199,000 - $291,000 per annum/hour.
Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.
At Stanford University, base pay represents only one aspect of the comprehensive rewards package. The Cardinal at Work website (https://cardinalatwork.stanford.edu/benefits-rewards) provides detailed information on Stanford's extensive range of benefits and rewards offered to employees. Specifics about the rewards package for this position may be discussed during the hiring process.
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