Associate Director, Residency Program

Job Description

Assistant Director, Residency Program – Medicine Administration Department | Mount Sinai Health System

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Mount Sinai Health System, located in New York, New York. Mount Sinai is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, dedicated to advancing health for all through outstanding patient care, education, and innovation across its hospitals and practices. This position provides critical strategic, operational, financial, and administrative leadership for a large and highly complex residency training program, ensuring educational excellence, accreditation compliance, and continuous program improvement.

The TL;DR
• Location: In-person – New York, New York
• Pay: $78884–$118326 annually
• Team: Serves as a senior administrative advisor to Program Directors, Department Leadership, and institutional stakeholders.
• Mission: Provides strategic, operational, financial, and administrative leadership for a large and highly complex residency training program.
• Tech Stack: ERAS, Thalamus, NRMP, WebADS, Residency Management Systems (RMS)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategic Program Leadership: Provide strategic leadership and comprehensive administrative oversight for a large, complex residency training program, potentially including associated fellowship training programs.
• Trainee Lifecycle Management: Oversee all trainee lifecycle activities from recruitment and onboarding through appointment, credentialing, licensure, immigration support, compliance, and graduation processes.
• Accreditation and Compliance: Establish and uphold standards for accreditation activities, including Annual Program Evaluation (APE), Program Evaluation Committee (PEC), Clinical Competency Committee (CCC), WebADS reporting, and Program Letters of Agreement (PLA), ensuring full compliance with ACGME, specialty board, institutional, regulatory, and governmental requirements.
• Educational Program Administration: Manage educational administration tasks such as curriculum development, evaluation systems, milestone reporting, scholarly activity tracking, and duty hour compliance, utilizing Residency Management Systems (RMS) for reporting initiatives and analytics.
• Financial and Personnel Oversight: Direct budget development, financial planning, forecasting, and resource allocation, while also leading personnel management for administrative staff, including workforce planning, succession planning, organizational development, and employee engagement initiatives.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree required. Possess progressively responsible leadership experience in graduate medical education administration, healthcare administration, academic administration, or a related field.
• Experience: Five (5) or more years of leadership experience, with demonstrated experience specifically supporting large, complex residency training programs highly preferred.
• Skills: Strategic leadership, operational planning, financial management, personnel oversight, accreditation compliance, and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Bonus: Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Public Administration, Business Administration, Public Health, Higher Education Administration, or a related field, or TAGME (Training Administrators of Graduate Medical Education) certification.