Senior Director, Cancer Clinical Research - Tisch Cancer Center

Job Description

The Senior Director, Cancer Clinical Research at the Tisch Cancer Center (TCC) of Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides strategic, operational, administrative, and financial leadership for cancer clinical research while ensuring compliance with federal, state, institutional, and regulatory requirements. The role supports TCC's mission, research priorities, and strategic initiatives. This position has dual reporting to both the TCC Associate Director of Clinical Research (faculty leadership) and the TCC Associate Director of Administration (department administrator) and collaborates with both leaders to enhance integration and efficiency across clinical research operations.

Responsibilities

• Provides executive administrative leadership for all aspects of cancer-specific clinical research supported by TCC.
• Advises TCC leadership on strategy, policy, operational and financial performance, and clinical research priorities.
• Has responsibility for the strategic planning, organization, and oversight of TCC clinical research including the development of strategies for patient recruitment, compliance, performance and quality improvement, operational efficiency, and employee engagement.
• Develops and maintains the TCC clinical trials infrastructure, providing optimal support to the clinical research community for all cancer-specific clinical trials.
• Oversees TCC clinical research administrative, regulatory, budget and contract, and operational units, including the clinical research executive leadership team.
• In partnership with TCC leadership, oversees the fiscal control activities for clinical research.
• Supervises the development and management of budgets in collaboration with finance administration.
• Serves as an expert liaison to investigators and Disease Focus Group (DFG) members to advance the quality and efficiency of clinical research.
• Interacts with pharmaceutical and clinical research organization leaders to promote TCC clinical research and gain access to appropriate clinical trials; interacts with faculty, staff, and other cancer-related organizations to raise awareness of clinical trial offerings.
• Ensures efficient study start-up, feasibility review, protocol development, activation timelines, and regulatory compliance.
• Provides oversight of clinical research laboratories, quality programs, training initiatives, research nursing (dotted line), and key committees (PRMC, DSMC).
• In collaboration with other TCC leaders, creates and implements a comprehensive people strategy that defines roles and responsibilities, success measures, employee development, growth, and engagement.
• Leads collaboration with IRB, Research Administration, compliance, and auditing offices as well as other MSHS departments.
• Conduct clinical research leadership meetings to promote communication, collaboration, and performance improvement.
• Collaborate with MSHS Oncology Service Line to improve research operations and patient experience.
• Actively engages in the preparations for the P30 Cancer Center Support Grant applications and related activities.
• Represents TCC clinical research across MSHS and in external forums as needed.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in healthcare administration, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive research, nursing, clinical trials or related experience which include supervisory and managerial responsibilities.

• Professional job-related experience fostering or promoting a welcoming and respectful work/academic environment; or demonstrated ability to do so. Experience managing multi-site clinical operations, faculty groups, and complex administrative structures
• Excellent leadership, team building, collaboration, and communication (written, verbal, and interpersonal) skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of drug development process.
• Demonstrated knowledge of research regulations and sponsor operating procedures.
• Knowledge of and experience with contract and grant application processes.
• Knowledge of and experience with oncology related programs.
• Knowledge of clinical research, billing practices, financial analysis, and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with physicians, researchers, administrators, and supervisors.
• Previous administrative experience in a matrix organization.
• Experience with the NCI-designated Clinical Protocol and Data Management operations and Protocol Review and Monitoring System is preferred.

Compensation Statement

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides salary ranges that comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $186,005.00 - $279,007.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

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.

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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.

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