Position Description

The Director, Medical & Academic Affairs serves as the strategic, administrative, financial, and operational partner to the Chief Medical Officer. The role provides enterprise-level oversight and advisory support across the medical and academic affairs portfolio. The position partners closely with the CMO, ACMO, and Department Chiefs for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Psychiatry. The role plans, directs, and oversees the comprehensive business requirements of the portfolio, including medical staff governance, credentialing and reappointment, committee and departmental oversight, physician recruitment and engagement, financial stewardship, and strategic initiatives. Working closely with departmental leadership, faculty, staff, and external partners, the Director aligns priorities with Hospital and University requirements, leads complex decision-making, mitigates risk, and advances the portfolio's vision, mission, and goals.

Here's What You'll Do

• Provide strategic, administrative, financial, and operational leadership to the Chief Medical Officer and the Medical & Academic Affairs Team, ensuring efficient delivery of services and alignment with organizational priorities.
• Provide strategic business support to the Chiefs and faculty of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, Psychiatry, and Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, integrating clinical, academic, research, administrative, and financial priorities.
• Lead medical staff governance processes, including credentialing, annual reappointment, Hospital By-Law compliance and updates, Medical Advisory Committee support, and improvements to credentialing standards.
• Oversee physician talent and academic appointment processes, including international recruitment, endowed chair selection and review, departmental five-year reviews, and practices that attract, retain, and develop medical staff.
• Direct financial planning and stewardship, including operating and long-range plans, budget development, performance and variance analysis, financial reporting, resource optimization, and physician compensation budgets exceeding $70 million.
• Provide financial reporting, forecasting, and decision support to senior medical leadership.
• Steward implementation of the Medical & Academic Affairs strategic plan; prioritize objectives, coordinate annual business and board deliverables, and ensure initiatives align with corporate strategy and support functions.
• Develop and maintain senior-level relationships with academic, government, regulatory, and system partners (e.g., University of Toronto, Ministry of Health, Ontario Health, CPSO).
• Enterprise-wide influence across clinical departments and corporate functions.
• Authority to lead strategic initiatives, provide senior advisory input, and escalate risks and issues to executive leadership.

Here's What You'll Need

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Public Administration, or a comparable combination of education and relevant work experience.
• Minimum five years of progressive experience in a health care or academic organization, including significant responsibility for complex financial and operational portfolios.
• Demonstrated experience working closely with physicians, faculty, senior leaders, and administrative teams in a complex, multi-tiered organization.
• Knowledge of the Public Hospitals Act , Hospital By-Laws, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario licensing requirements, and applicable legal and organizational risk frameworks.
• Strong financial management, analytical, business acumen, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, including the ability to identify trends, establish benchmarks, and provide credible recommendations.
• Proven ability to influence, lead transformational change, negotiate, and build cooperative relationships across multiple stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.
• Excellent planning, organization, relationship management, communication, and project leadership skills, with the ability to balance competing needs and deliver results in complex situations.
• Significant project management experience required. Project Management Professional (PMP) designation is an asset.
• Experience in quality or process improvement and process re-engineering.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word; experience with PeopleSoft is preferred.
• Familiarity with design thinking.
• Intermediate level experience and knowledge of AI with the ability to use AI for research drafting and data synthesis.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.

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