**Job Description** The Senior Operations Director, Anesthesiology provides comprehensive system-wide leadership and oversight of the administrative, operational, academic, research and overarching financial functions of the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. In partnership with center-led leaders and departmental leadership, this senior-level role serves as the key strategic and administrative leader, ensuring high-quality support for faculty, staff, house-staff, the provision of clinical services, excellence in educational programs and research activities across multiple hospitals and ambulatory sites. The Senior Operations Director role sits at the base of the Department’s mission. **Qualifications** **Education Requirements** + Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or a related field required. **Experience Requirements** + Minimum of 10 years of progressive healthcare administration experience, preferably within an academic medical center or large integrated health system. + Experience managing multi-site clinical operations, faculty groups, and complex administrative structures. **Responsibilities** **Faculty Administration** + Oversees faculty workforce management, including recruitment and retention. The specific activities include oversight of onboarding, credentialing, privileging, and continuous adherence to maintenance of certifications and up to date licensure and related registrations (e.g., DEA, DOH, required MSHS, Federal and NYS coursework) for all staff including faculty, house staff and CRNAs in all hospital and ambulatory locations. + Manages faculty scheduling, workload distribution, leaves of absences, and related operational needs. + Serves as administrative lead for faculty wellness initiatives and confidential disciplinary procedures including interactions with COPHE, medical staff services, and when required disciplinary actions and reporting to the OPMC and DEA while integrating communication with medical staff services, human resources and legal affairs. + Supports the Chair in all faculty-related matters including negotiating contracts, performance appraisals and leave of absence management including FMLA. **Financial Management** + In collaboration with center-led finance, provides oversight of departmental financial operations focusing on budgeting and forecasting of expenses, primarily based on faculty and CRNA staffing needs and compensation trends. + The Department has complex faculty compensation schemes given its numerous sites that vary in utilization, supervision requirements, concurrency issues, different call types, and locale specific recruitment and retention issues. These schemes require consistent oversight, adjustment and are subject to quarterly and semiannual calculation. + Manages contracts and invoicing with ambulatory surgery centers where we provide “leased” services, office-based anesthesia sites where we are directly contracted to provide service, and locum tenens vendors that we use specifically at Mount Sinai Brooklyn. + Collaborates closely with center-led Revenue Cycle teams to ensure accurate revenue capture, compliance with billing requirements, and alignment with institutional data and revenue cycle processes to maximize reimbursement. + Ensures adherence to institutional policies related to procurement, fund transfers, travel, and expense management. Analyze/resolve revenue/expense variances. **Operations** + Directs the administrative and operational functions of a large, multi-site department to ensure efficient, high-quality support of clinical and academic activities. + Partners with the chair, site directors and division chiefs to help standardize workflows and reduce operational variability. + Leads administrative staff, including hiring, training, performance evaluation, maintenance of competency and career development. + Oversees departmental committees e.g., clinical competency, performance improvement, equipment) and helps resolve operational issues + Oversees the responses to patient concerns and help the Vice Chair of Performance Improvement respond to and work with the Patient Representative team. **Academic Educational Administration** + The Department’s MSH based residency is the largest in the country and the MSH and MSW_MSM combined training programs employ about 2.0% of all the Anesthesiology housestaff in the country.This role provides the administrative oversight of these programs. + Collaborates with Program Directors, GME leadership, and affiliated institutions to ensure effective program operations. + Manages academic budgets and ensures appropriate allocation of resources to educational activities. **Research Administration** + Provides administrative leadership for departmental research activities, including strategy development, infrastructure support, and financial oversight. + Oversees research staff and collaborates with the Director of Research to manage clinical trials, basic science projects, and other research endeavors. + Coordinates the Department’s anesthesia resources with other clinical research initiatives in other departments across the network. + Ensures compliance with research regulations and maintains departmental research databases. + Supports faculty in obtaining funding, managing grant portfolios, and coordinating cross-departmental research initiatives. **Facilities Management** + Evaluates space needs and collaborates with Facilities leadership on planning, renovations, construction, and equipment investments. + Assesses and recommends facility improvements to support clinical, research, and educational operations. + Participates in long-term planning for departmental space utilization across hospital and ambulatory sites. **Information Technology & Systems** + Coordinates with Health Information Management and IT teams on medical records processes, documentation systems, and digital workflows. + Supports implementation of center-led IT initiatives and ensures effective integration into departmental operations. + Identifies system needs and collaborates with institutional partners to optimize technology use across sites. **Other responsibilities** + Handle special projects assigned by the Departmental and Institutional Senior leadership, including internal and external audits. + Work collaboratively with other Institutional departments and senior leadership, including Human Resources, Procurement, Finance, Revenue Cycle. Support Institutional initiatives to enhance organizational performance. + Maintain professional affiliations and enhances professional development to keep pace with health care trends. Represent Department at public and professional meetings and conferences. Complete Anesthesiology-specific training for billing and compliance and maintain current information. Attend and actively participate in ASA society meetings and webinars. Participate in public relations programs. + Maintains strict confidentiality. **About Us** **Strength through Unity and Inclusion** The Mount Sinai Health System is committed to fostering an environment where everyone can contribute to excellence. We share a common dedication to delivering outstanding patient care. When you join us, you become part of Mount Sinai’s unparalleled legacy of achievement, education, and innovation as we work together to transform healthcare. We encourage all team members to actively participate in creating a culture that ensures fair access to opportunities, promotes inclusive practices, and supports the success of every individual. At Mount Sinai, our leaders are committed to fostering a workplace where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We strive to create an environment where collaboration, fairness, and continuous learning drive positive change, improving the well-being of our staff, patients, and organization. Our leaders are expected to challenge outdated practices, promote a culture of respect, and work toward meaningful improvements that enhance patient care and workplace experiences. We are dedicated to building a supportive and welcoming environment where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and advance professionally. Explore this opportunity and be part of the next chapter in our history. **About the Mount Sinai Health System:** Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally. **Equal Opportunity Employer** The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer, complying with all applicable federal civil rights laws. We do not discriminate, exclude, or treat individuals differently based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where all faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve feel respected and supported. Our goal is to create a healthcare and learning institution that actively works to remove barriers, address challenges, and promote fairness in all aspects of our organization. **Compensation Statement** Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $186000 - $270000 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.