Director Finance & Administration - Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Education & Experience:

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

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

·      Demonstrated strategic leadership, planning and change management skills

·      Ability to demonstrate a high level of diplomacy in persuading and influencing a wide variety of people at various levels to achieve results.

·      Advanced financial expertise in accounting, budget planning, and financial forecasting.

·      Strong knowledge of industry standards and/or regulatory requirements.

·      Demonstrated ability to identify and analyze all pertinent information/data to make and communicate decisions to meet the unit's current and future financial, research, academic and administrative needs. Exceptional negotiation and effective interpersonal skills negotiation and political acumen skills.

·      Ability to establish a culture of integrity within their unit and with those external to the units.

·      Demonstrates 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.

·      Strong knowledge of industry standards, trends and/or regulatory requirements.

Certifications and Licenses:

None

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in an academic medical center
• Demonstrated skills in faculty relations
• Demonstrated understanding of the management issues in a highly complex research environment.
• Demonstrated senior-level leadership, strategic partnership, negotiation and change management skills
• Demonstrated expertise in strategic financial planning
• Demonstrated operational expertise in business development in support of strategic growth initiatives
• Demonstrated skills and experience in human resources management, affirmative action practices and policy implementation
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, motivate, and develop strong staff, supervisors, and managers.

The successful candidate will most likely come from a department/division within a well-respected, top-tier academic medical center with exposure to research, clinical and education functions.

He/she will be an accomplished professional, with executive presence, and demonstrated communication and leadership skills, who can cultivate an environment of excellence and collaboration to augment the department’s academic, research, clinical, and service endeavors.

Stanford School of Medicine is committed to support a creative and productive workforce characterized by a diversity of races, cultures, genders, ages and styles and to provide equal opportunity to all its members.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS*: 

• Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks.
• Frequently sitting.
• Occasionally stand/walk, reach/work above shoulders, use a telephone, writing by hand, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds;
• Rarely twist/bend/stoop/squat, sort/file paperwork or parts, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh 11-20 pounds.

* - 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.