**Job Description** **Job Title:** **Program Director-Transgender Program-Mount Sinai Hospital-Full Time-Days** **Job Summary:** The **Program Director** provides administrative direction, evaluation, and coordination of the functions and activities of the **Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery (CTMS)** . The Program Director is responsible for establishing short- and long-term goals and objectives in line with Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) as well as ensuring compliance with federal, state, and city regulatory agencies. The incumbent provides leadership regarding the daily operations of the CTMS and is the liaison to other departments providing transgender medicine and surgery across the health system. The Program Director’s focus will be on the quality of CTMS care and financial status of the Center. The Program Director will identify potential funding opportunities including foundational and government grants and will reinforce efforts to expand the continuum of care of our patient population from pediatrics to geriatrics. **Qualifications** **Education Requirement:** + Bachelors Degree required, Masters preferred, or equivalent combination or relevant work experience and education. **Experience Requirement:** + 7+ years of experience in healthcare finance or administration; experience in strategic planning and execution, formulating policy, building and developing financial plans, managing resources and leading successful team. Non-Bargaining Unit, 431 - Transgender Program - MSH, Mount Sinai Hospital **Responsibilities** + Provides administrative direction and coordination in the formulation, interpretation, and administration of current and long-range policies and procedures for the Center for Transgender Medicine & Surgery (CTMS) + Provides direct oversight to the MSH CTMS support staff and indirect oversight of CTMS program staff at other facilities. + Oversees a multi-disciplinary team to establish a strategic plan for CTMS over the next 3 to 5 years + Updates the CTMS mission, vision and goals and ensures staff are included in the development of these components of the program; disseminates the information on a regular basis and ensures that CTMS operations are consistent with the overall program goal. + Assures compliance with regulatory, insurance, and ethical standards regarding safety of patients, employee, and property; identifies contingency plans for potential risks.; working with the quality review teams across the system ensures an effective and efficient review process has been implemented and operating at CTMS treatment sites. + Encourages collaboration among divisions to effectively coordinate and implement operational activities; facilitates and encourages effective communications across functional areas of CTMS including 4 hospitals, ambulatory surgery units and a multitude of primary and specialty care facilities. + In collaboration with the Sr Director and the Executive Director provides program promotion through attendance at outreach events, educational seminars etc. that include transgender medicine and the transgender community. + Develops insurance contracts for commercial and non-commercial patients to access the services of CTMS; Ensures enrollment of providers into the accepted plans to expand the continuum of care of CTMS patients and improve access. + Plans budget needs by analyzing short- and long-term program plans; collaborates with the IAM Senior Financial Director to assure the completion of the annual budget and subsequent monitoring of the financial status of the department. + In collaboration with the Sr Director of Finance the incumbent creates, monitors, and implements necessary operational modifications to maintain a solvent P&L. Creates the financial statements for CTMS including the P&L, business plans, etc. + Implements quality assurance programs and oversees monitoring activities to meet standards and regulations of accrediting agencies such as Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare (JCAHO), Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), and New York State and City Department of Health. In collaboration with the Quality lead for CTMS, ensures all standards are met at every CTMS site. + Establishes systems and organizational structure to support the overcall vision and strategic direction of the department as well as assessing and identifying operational strategies, performance metrics, dashboards, and financial opportunities to execute. Creates KPI’s specific to CTMS for monitoring and evaluation in collaboration with the IAM Sr. Director of Monitoring and Evaluation. + Oversees the integration of the transgender medicine fellowship into the academic flows of the Icahn School of Medicine, creating curriculums, rotations, etc. with collaborating departments. + Under the direction of the Executive Director, establishes goals and objectives for research opportunities that include a transgender cohort of potential participants; assists in coordinating efforts to complete scholarly journal articles and other publications completed by CTMS staff. + In collaboration with the Executive Director creates, maintains, and expands the CTMS primary care network beyond the current 15 now identified as network providers. + Directs operations within the department; uses data and fact-based problem-solving techniques to improve processes and outcomes. + Plans, develops, and/or maintains departmental standard operating procedures; regularly reviews policies and procedures and makes changes, or recommends changes to superiors as necessary. + Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies. + May provide leadership for more junior staff members in the form of ongoing training. + Performs other duties as required. **About Us** **Strength Through Diversity** The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by: + Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential. + Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination. + Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers. At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new 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 43,000 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 approximately 7,400 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 and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, 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. 14 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. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.” **EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans** **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 $111099.88 - $173771.88 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.