Director of Finance & Administration - Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine

Dermatology at Stanford has a rich and wonderful tradition of excellence, community and service. The Department encompasses over 200 faculty members, trainees and staff, delivering outstanding patient care at over 8 total sites, including Stanford’s affiliated partner institutions and the Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center in Redwood City. The Department’s academic efforts presently contribute the largest number of published high impact discoveries of any Dermatology Department in the world.

Looking to the future, the mission of the Department will remain focused, as it has been for many years, on leadership in discovery, in patient care and in training leaders of our specialty in an environment that fosters creativity, excellence and synergy. Over the next five years, Dermatology will further the focus of the three thematic foci of the Department:

1) Cutaneous Malignancies, including Melanoma, Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers and Cutaneous Lymphoma

2) Regenerative Medicine and Inherited Skin Diseases, including developing stem cell therapies for disorders such as Epidermolysis Bullosa and

3) Immune Skin Disorders, including the full range of Autoimmune Skin Diseases.

The support of our entire community of faculty, alumni, patients, and friends will be instrumental in providing the creativity and resources needed in this effort to support trainees, young faculty, patient care advances and innovative research.

The Department of Dermatology, is seeking a Director of Finance and Administration (DFA 2) to partner with the department faculty to achieve continued growth and preeminence in research and patient care. Reporting to the Chair of Dermatology, with a secondary reporting relationship to the Associate Dean, Chief Financial Officer for the School of Medicine, the DFA will provide strategic leadership and direction for the operations, administration and finances for the department. As the business partner to the chair, this critical leadership position will ensure sound management of the department and work with the chair and faculty leaders on new and existing research, clinical patient care, and education programs and initiatives to enable the department to achieve its strategic and operational goals. Additionally, the DFA serves as the liaison to the school and university in all business matters for this department with a combined budget of more than $65MM annually.

As the administrative leader for the department, the DFA provides leadership and direction for all financial and administrative functions, including budgeting and financial management, strategic planning, human resources, grant and contract administration, academic affairs, facilities/space planning, compliance, and safety. The DFA manages department operations, establishes the administration's organizational structure and environment, and has oversight for administrative policies and procedures in the department. The duties of this position are typically split between 50% operational and 50% strategic, and the DFA will have multiple levels of professional and supervisory staff. As a clinical department, the DFA will also have considerable interaction with any of the four Stanford affiliated hospitals.

CORE DUTIES:

• Establish business and administrative mission and goals for the department in partnership with faculty leadership on departmental affairs and advocate the unit's needs and goals to internal and external parties.
• Ensure the financial success of the organization through oversight of the finances across all sources for the annual budget cycle, including developing, monitoring, analyzing forecasting and reporting. Recommend and develop strategies for general cost containment, strategic investments, and growth management. Partner with the hospital(s) budgeting process, negotiate funds flow agreements. Negotiate funding with the hospital(s) for programmatic needs.
• Evaluate business processes and operational and/or financial effectiveness to develop long-range business plans, including strategic plans for the organization and programs managed.
• Identify and resolve strategic issues of substantial significance that affect the overall functioning beyond the immediate unit and consult and advise senior leadership.
• Manage the direction of internal academic and administrative policy development for programs and administrative operations. Make recommendations for changes in staffing, facilities, health and