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Job Requisition Number 31293

Full time

Day Shift

Onsite 


Summary:

The Director of Research, Surgical Enterprises is a senior, non-clinical leader responsible for driving strategic growth, execution, and oversight of clinical, translational, and outcomes-based research across all surgical departments within a leading pediatric healthcare system. Collaborating closely with physician-scientists, institutional leaders, and the Rebecca D. Considine Research Institute, this role ensures alignment with the mission to improve pediatric health through discovery and implementation science. Operating within a federated research model, the director leverages centralized core functions—such as data science, biostatistics, clinical trials, and research integrity—while supporting embedded subspecialty teams. With access to a unified EHR and a broad patient population, the director advances high-impact surgical research and innovation.

Responsibilities:

  1. Lead Strategic Planning: Develop and implement the Surgical Research Strategic Plan in collaboration with institutional and departmental leadership.
  2. Align with Institutional Goals: Ensure research initiatives support priorities in quality, safety, innovation, and patient engagement.
  3. Integrate Across Specialties: Champion cross-disciplinary research across all surgical divisions, including general surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, and more.
  4. Foster Academic Partnerships: Build strategic collaborations with regional academic institutions to enhance research capabilities.
  5. Oversee Operations: Manage research budgets, personnel, and ensure efficient regulatory, IRB, and clinical trial processes.
  6. Support Embedded Teams: Provide oversight and mentorship to surgical specialty research professionals and ensure compliance with institutional standards.
  7. Advance Academic Development: Promote faculty engagement in research through mentorship, protected time, and shared infrastructure.
  8. Drive Talent Development: Mentor junior faculty and trainees, and develop surgeon-scientist pipelines in partnership with educational institutions.
  9. Secure Funding & Partnerships: Pursue funding opportunities and cultivate academic, industry, and philanthropic collaborations.
  10. Measure Impact: Establish KPIs for research productivity and provide regular reporting to leadership while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Other information:

Technical Expertise

  1. Familiarity with research integration into EPIC, COSMOS, REDCap, CTMS, and other clinical research platforms.
  2. Proven track record of mentoring junior investigators and promoting scholarly output.
  3. Demonstrated success in obtaining extramural funding (e.g., NIH, foundations, industry).
  4. Experience managing cross-disciplinary teams and complex research portfolios.
  5. Strategic Thinking and Execution
  6. Leadership and Team Building
  7. Grant Writing and Scientific Communication
  8. Stakeholder Engagement- including internal leaders, professional and physician-scientists and learners, and regional academic partners
  9. Data-Driven Decision-Making
  10. Research Compliance and Integrity

    Education and Experience

    1. Education: PhD with a strong record of independent research productivity in a surgical or surgical-adjacent field required.
    2. Years of relevant experience: 3 years of experience in clinical or translational research leadership in an academic or integrated health system setting. Experience in pediatric or congenital surgical research, preferred.
    3. Years of supervisory experience: minimum 3 years Prior leadership in research strategy development or academic administration preferred.

    Full Time

    FTE: 1.000000




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