Assistant Director – Departmental Operations Management

Job Description

Assistant Director- Brooklyn Heights Overhead – Offsite | Mount Sinai Health System

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Mount Sinai Health System, located in Brooklyn, NY (offsite). Mount Sinai is one of the largest academic medical systems dedicated to transforming healthcare and delivering outstanding patient care across the New York metro area. This role is crucial for ensuring the smooth daily operations of a department, managing staff, and overseeing financial aspects, directly contributing to the system’s ability to provide high-quality care and meet its institutional goals.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Brooklyn, NY
• Pay: $78884–$143500 yearly
• Team: Reports to the Director of the department.
• Mission: This person ensures efficient departmental operations, effective staff supervision, and sound financial management to support organizational objectives.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Departmental Operations: Assist the Director in overseeing the daily operations and provide administrative guidance to staff.
• Process Improvement: Evaluate departmental operations to identify and implement potential improvements.
• Strategic Planning: Plan, organize, and implement services to achieve departmental goals and develop policies and procedures.
• Staff Management: Conduct interviews, assist with orientation, training, evaluations, and recommend personnel actions.
• Financial Oversight: Assist in preparing budgets, controlling costs, performing reconciliations, and justifying cost variances.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Health Care Administration, Public Administration, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience, with a preference for a healthcare setting.
• Skills: Staff supervision, budgetary oversight, departmental operations management, policy and procedure development, data management.
• Bonus: Master’s Degree preferred.