This position reports directly to the Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Finance and indirectly to the Executive Dean.  The College of Medicine is a large and complex institution with numerous functional units that require coordination from both strategic and operational standpoints. Keeping the institution running well requires functional alignment of its operating units. This alignment is achieved through a strategy driven approach combined with associated operational implementation and oversight. The Director position is therefore key to helping leadership assure that the college is effectively achieving its mission objectives in a timely and efficient fashion. As such, the Director must possess both a mindset that understands and communicates strategy, and a skillset that can apply it to day-to-day operations and operational improvement.

DUTIES:

• Assist Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Finance and other senior COM deans in the development, implementation, and ongoing assessment of College of Medicine strategic planning, implementation, and operational quality improvement.
• Manage strategy software and related informational databases.
• Work with the COM deans to develop goals and objectives for their administrative functional units and to monitor progress on those goals and objectives. 
• Oversee and direct the development, review and revision, communication and distribution, and collation and storage, of College of Medicine policies and procedures.
• Oversee and direct the College of Medicine web site and supervises personnel relevant to this task.
• Manage COM space and infrastructure needs to assure that the college’s missions are accomplished in an effective manner.
• Serves as the college’s facilities coordinator with OUHSC facilities management.
• Conduct monthly meetings with Dean’s Office staff to ensure communication, awareness and coordination of policy and operations.
• Coordinate and collaborate with associate deans, department chairs, health system, and other leaders within the University and community as required to assure steady and effective operations.
• Conduct forums for faculty, staff, students and others to ensure appropriate avenues of communication with COM leadership.
• Manage COM special projects assigned by COM Deans. Coordinate and implement and/or assign responsibilities to Dean’s Office staff for those special projects.
• Represent the COM at administrative, executive staff, and/or institutional meetings as needed.  Make special presentations as needed.
• When required, act as liaison for communications with the Association of American Medical Colleges, Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and similar organizations.