Director, CMO Administration - 138958

Payroll Title

ORGANIZATIONAL CNSLT 5

Department

CMO ADMINISTRATION

Hiring Pay Scale

$165,600 - $196,200 / Year

Worksite

Jacobs Medical Center

Appointment Type

Career

Appointment Percent

100%

Union

Uncovered

Total Openings

1

Work Schedule

Days, 8-Hour Shifts, Monday-Friday

#138958 Director, CMO Administration

Filing Deadline: Mon 4/20/2026

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Description

The Director, CMO Administration is a leadership role within the Office of the Chief Medical Officer at UC San Diego Health. Reporting to the Chief of Staff, this position blends enterprise-level operational stewardship, internal consulting, and change leadership with direct accountability for advancing high-impact acute care and infrastructure services under the CMO Office in addition to a nationally visible, multi-year care transformation initiative in partnership with West Health.

The Director will independently lead complex, systemwide initiatives; partner closely with the Chief Medical Officer/Associate Chief Medical Officers (aCMOs), relevant physician leaders, and other key clinical and operational stakeholders to develop, standardize, and scale advanced workflows that transform outcomes across the health system.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Clinical Operations & Infrastructure Leadership
• Serve as a key operational partner and administrative dyad for Hospital Medicine, Critical Care, and other assigned infrastructure services, collaborating with relevant physician and administrative leaders to translate strategic priorities into executable plans, standardized workflows, and sustained performance improvement.
• Facilitate the development, evaluation, and approval of volume-driven coverage models, staffing requests, productivity assumptions, and annual operating budgets aligned with clinical demand and institutional goals.
• Drive standardized workflow design, implementation, and sustainment across relevant service lines to promote reliability, scalability, and high-quality care delivery.
• Oversee performance management, including LOS, avoidable days, readmissions, medication reconciliation, patient experience, and workforce sustainability metrics; lead root cause analyses and corrective action planning.
• Facilitate operational governance forums, barrier resolution, and quarterly performance reviews, including support for 360-degree enterprise evaluations.
• Strategic Initiatives & Executive Support
• Lead high-priority, complex initiatives on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer and Chief of Staff, often involving significant organizational impact and stakeholder alignment.
• Apply advanced organizational development, process improvement, and strategic planning methodologies to solve complex operational challenges.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and operational deputy to the Chief of Staff, ensuring continuity across key priorities within the Office of the CMO.
• West Health Intelligent Care Accelerator Leadership
• Serve as an operational leader for a multi-year care transformation initiative focused on intelligent care delivery, capacity management, and system integration across the care continuum.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and successful execution of program goals.
• Translate strategy into actionable implementation plans, scalable models, and measurable outcomes.
• Drive change management and adoption across a large, multisite academic health system, and prepare executive-level materials for senior leadership and governance bodies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related area and seven or more years of relevant experience including substantive experience within a healthcare setting, or equivalent combination of experience, education and training.
• Expert knowledge of the organizational development and effectiveness field, theories, models to assess, design and implement customized organizational interventions.
• Demonstrates superior analytical, problem-solving, project planning and implementation skills.
• Knowledge of the organizational environment of higher education and large research universities to understand client priorities, issues, motivations and constraints.
• Have superior written, verbal and presentation skills for influencing and facilitating sustained change.
• Possesses superior consulting, relationship building, and strategic thinking skills.
• Demonstrates superior strategic-thinking and consulting skills in guiding the organization toward workable strategies and solutions.
• Ability to facilitate and influence people at all levels. Ability to persuade through both logic and appeal to positive motivations. Ability to handle multiple constituencies, agendas, engagements and tasks, and to deal productively with ambiguity and conflict.
• Demonstrates ability to learn quickly, reason, synthesize and generalize based on information obtained; sound judgment; ability to draw unbiased conclusions.
• Ability to focus on priorities, strategies, and vision.
• Knowledge of the consulting process to effectively lead highly significant engagements from inception to conclusion.
• Incorporates excellent skills in change management programs on a regular basis.
• Highly-skilled in navigating organizational complexity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in health administration, business, or other relevant field of study.
• Clinical experience strongly preferred or equivalent experience partnering closely with physician leadership in care delivery environments.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives involving clinical operations, care transformation, and enterprise performance improvement, with the ability to influence across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Experience working within an academic medical center, large integrated delivery system, or similarly complex, highly matrixed organization, with a track record of navigating organizational dynamics and driving alignment at scale.
• Proven expertise in change management, operational strategy, and data-driven decision-making in inpatient or high-acuity care settings.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

• Must be able to work various hours and locations based on business needs.
• Employment is subject to a criminal background check and pre-employment physical.

Pay Transparency Act

Annual Full Pay Range: $132,600 - $259,800 (will be prorated if the appointment percentage is less than 100%)

Hourly Equivalent: $63.51 - $124.43

Factors in determining the appropriate compensation for a role include experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The Hiring Pay Scale referenced in the job posting is the budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position. The Annual Full Pay Range may be broader than what the University anticipates to pay for this position, based on internal equity, budget, and collective bargaining agreements (when applicable).

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