Job Posting Title:

Chief Administrative Officer

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Hiring Department:

Dell Medical School

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt from FLSA

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Earliest Start Date:

Oct 01, 2026

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

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Job Details:

General Notes

Within this environment, UT Dell Medical School seeks a Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) to serve as the administrative dyad partner to the Dean and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs. Reporting directly to the Dean/SVPMA, the CAO provides strategic and operational leadership for administration, shared services, organizational development, and enterprise execution. The CAO helps translate institutional vision into operational reality while building the capabilities, systems, and culture required to support a premier academic health system.

This executive will oversee key administrative functions including finance, human resources, information technology, facilities, development, marketing and communications, compliance, legal affairs, and other shared services. As a member of the senior leadership team, the CAO will play a critical role in shaping organizational strategy, executing growth initiatives, driving operational excellence, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of the enterprise

What You'll Do

• Serve as strategic and operational dyad partner to the Dean and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs.
  
• Provide overall strategic and operational direction for UT Dell Medical School and its future growth as a destination academic medical center.
• Lead development and execution of enterprise strategic and operating plans.
• Design and implement organizational structures, leadership models, and administrative capabilities that support continued expansion.
• Oversee administrative shared services, including finance, human resources, information technology, marketing and communications, development, facilities, compliance, legal affairs, and related functions.
• Ensure alignment between enterprise priorities and administrative operations across departments, institutes, and clinical programs.
• Deliver financial, operational, quality, and growth objectives across the organization.
• Foster and maintain strategic partnerships with external organizations that advance institutional goals.
• Ensure legal, regulatory, and policy compliance across administrative operations.
• Lead modernization efforts through adoption of artificial intelligence, automation, and innovative workforce strategies.
• Develop and oversee workforce upskilling programs that prepare employees for the future of healthcare.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and operational innovations that improve organizational performance.
• Serve as a member of the senior leadership team and contribute to enterprise governance and decision making.
• Create an environment that attracts, develops, and retains exceptional talent.
• Build a high-performing culture aligned with Dell Medical School values and strategic priorities.

Who You Are

The ideal candidate is an accomplished healthcare executive who combines strategic vision with operational excellence. You have experience leading complex organizations through growth, change, and transformation while creating administrative infrastructure that enables long-term success.

You understand the unique dynamics of academic medicine and can effectively balance the priorities of clinical care, education, research, and financial performance. You bring strong business acumen, exceptional leadership skills, and the ability to build trust across diverse stakeholder groups.

You are equally comfortable developing strategy and executing against it. You thrive in evolving environments, embrace innovation, and have a demonstrated ability to build organizational capabilities that scale alongside growth.

You bring:

• Broad expertise in healthcare administration and large-scale organizational leadership
• Experience leading complex, matrixed healthcare organizations
• Strong financial management, operational, and strategic planning capabilities
• Success overseeing large administrative and shared service functions
• Experience supporting organizational growth, facility development, and expansion initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation, workforce transformation, and operational modernization
• A collaborative leadership style that builds alignment across diverse constituencies
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and executive influencing skills
• Experience operating within academic medicine, healthcare delivery organizations, or integrated health systems

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive senior-level healthcare administrative leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success leading large teams and complex organizational initiatives.
• Experience developing and executing strategic and operational plans within complex healthcare environments.
• Experience overseeing large-scale administrative functions, operations, and shared services.
• Proven ability to drive organizational performance, growth, and operational excellence.

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fifteen or more years of senior healthcare leadership experience.
• Experience supporting development of new sites of care, major capital projects, hospital activation, or health system expansion.
• Demonstrated success applying artificial intelligence and automation within healthcare operations.
• Experience within a university-based academic medical center or major academic health system.
• Healthcare executive certification such as Certified Healthcare Executive (CHE) or equivalent.

Leadership Relationships

The Chief Administrative Officer reports directly to the Dean and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and serves as a key member of the senior leadership team. The CAO provides leadership and oversight for administrative and shared service functions across the organization and works closely with executive leaders, department chairs, faculty leaders, and operational teams to advance strategic priorities.

Salary Range

OPEN

Working Conditions

• Standard office environment
• Repetitive use of a keyboard

Required Materials

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest

Importantfor applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.  Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

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Employment Eligibility:

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

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Retirement Plan Eligibility:

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. This position has the option to elect the Optional Retirement Program (ORP) instead of TRS, subject to the position being 40 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

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Background Checks:

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

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