Department
BSD MED - General Internal Medicine
About the Department
Job Summary
The role will ensure the development and execution of research initiatives, scientific programs and event planning, funding opportunities and grants, external partnerships, and donor-facing activities in coordination with faculty and University leadership. The role supports the recruitment and hiring of talent to develop the organizational capacity to execute at scale including overseeing a multi-year investment plan and supervising staff, and serves as a senior problem-solver and primary point of contact for internal and external constituencies. This position demands visionary leadership, sophisticated stakeholder influence, and the ability to translate scientific opportunity into institutional and industry impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead the coordination, consolidation, and operationalization of UChicago’s distributed informatics, AI, and precision medicine capabilities into a unified enterprise structure.
- Manage consolidated budgets, personnel strategies, and enterprise-wide funding allocations to support core strategic priorities across the biomedical enterprise.
- Support the development of a democratized clinical-research data platform integrating the electronic health record (EHR), multiomics, imaging, digital pathology, and participant-mediated data in close partnership with UCMC IT and leadership.
- Support the integration of real-time and participant-mediated data including wearables, remote monitoring, patient-reported outcomes, and sociomic data elements into the core platform architecture.
- Help direct and establish adoption of the strategy, scaling, and execution of precision medicine efforts, including from research to clinical implementation and translation efforts.
- Conduct internal and community engagement, managing internal and external advisory boards to position UChicago as a national leader in clinical biobanking.
- Drive internal collaboration across university powerhouses, including Argonne National Labs, the Harris School of Public Policy, the Booth School of Business, the Physical Sciences Division, the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, and the Polsky Center.
- Cultivate and manage external affiliate partnerships, including UChicago Medicine AdventHealth collaborative hospitals, regional health systems, and industry leaders in sequencing, proteomics, digital pathology, AI, and multimodal analytics.
- Partner with academic and clinical leadership to execute division-wide strategic faculty searches in areas such as artificial intelligence in biomedicine, clinical/computational phenomics, and pharmacogenomics.
- Oversee the strategic deployment of multi-year enterprise investment plans and start-up packages to build a world-class team of researchers, clinician-scientists, and operational experts.
- Partner with University Development to drive philanthropic engagement, external grant opportunities and writing, industry co-investments, and commercialization strategies to ensure long-term financial sustainability.
- Oversee day-to-day department operations, directly supervise staff, and establish organizational capacity to execute goals at scale.
- Serve as senior problem-solver and primary operational point of contact for internal and external constituencies across BSD and UCMC.
- Manages multiple related teams. Establishes department priorities, is responsible for the management of the center budget, allocates resources and executes strategic plans.
- Works closely with faculty, students and other leaders across campus to foster experimentation and multi-disciplinary inquiry and teaching by coordinating and developing Center programming. This may include workshops. Conferences, colloquia, training programs, community outreach, etc.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
Work Experience:
Certifications:
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Preferred Qualifications
Education:
- MBA and/or advanced degree in the sciences.
Experience:
- Background in biomedical research and university administration.
- Proven track record as a strong strategic thinker with a results orientation, who approaches any challenge with thoughtfulness, drive, data usage, and appropriate urgency.
Preferred Competencies
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling, and thoughtful messaging.
- Cultivating relationships and working with multiple stakeholders to build successful partnerships.
- Leading a data-driven team towards meeting organizational goals and objectives.
- Ability to work in an academic unit and/or complex research university environment.
- Strong executive functioning skills, directing a complex and many-faceted project with diverse partners.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Self-motivated.
- Ability to work independently.
- Attention to detail.
- Organizational skills.
- Ability to prioritize multiple competing priorities.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to train and supervise others, including students, volunteers and other support staff.
- Ability to exercise discretion regarding confidential project matters and maintain patient confidentiality.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Application Documents
- Resume/CV (required)
- Cover Letter (required)
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Pay Rate Type
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Pay Range
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Benefits Eligible
The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.
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Skills Required
- College or university degree in a related field
- 10+ years of work experience in a related job discipline
- MBA and/or advanced degree in the sciences
- Background in biomedical research and university administration
- Strategic thinking and results-oriented approach
- Ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling messaging
- Ability to cultivate relationships and build successful partnerships
- Experience leading data-driven teams toward organizational goals
- Ability to work in an academic unit or complex research university environment
- Strong executive functioning and complex project leadership skills
- Problem-solving, organizational, prioritization, and independent-work skills
- Ability to train and supervise staff, students, and volunteers
- Ability to exercise discretion regarding confidential matters and maintain patient confidentiality
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
What We Do
The University of Chicago is an urban research university that has driven new ways of thinking since 1890. Our commitment to rigorous inquiry and intellectual freedom draws pathbreaking scholars to our global campuses, where field-defining ideas are born that challenge and change the world. The University of Chicago has its main campus on Chicago's South Side and seven international campuses and centers throughout the world. Students can choose from 53 majors and 47 minors in the undergraduate College, with four divisions and seven professional schools for graduate study.
