Assistant Director of Operations

Assistant Director of Operations

University Health Services (UHS) is looking for an Assistant Director of Operations to join our dynamic team. This position reports to the Associate Director of Operations and will partner with departmental leadership teams to support operations across the organization, including Medical Services, Mental Health Services, Survivor Services, and Prevention teams. This position is essential to ensuring the health and wellbeing of students throughout UW-Madison.

This position serves as a key operational partner across UHS, responsible for overseeing the campus immunization disclosure policy requirements, ensuring that UHS is compliant with all accreditation standards, and supervising key operational team members for the Medical and Mental Health Services teams. This position will provide project management services, support the management of strategic initiatives, and serve as a partner to clinical and operational leaders to ensure the success of operational initiatives and day to day operational needs. This role will identify process improvement opportunities as well as ways for cross collaboration across departments within UHS.

Key responsibilities include providing operational leadership and support for annual UHS immunization clinics across campus, serving as an advisor to divisional or executive leadership, coordinating administrative, operational and financial activities for assigned units and strategic initiatives, providing project management and coordination for strategic initiatives, overseeing the UHS wellness vending program, partnering with clinical executive leaders in Medical and Mental Health Services to support operational initiatives and day-to-day operational needs, identifying process improvement opportunities, and facilitating cross-unit collaboration.

The minimum salary for this position is $90,000, with final salary based on experience and qualifications. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including generous paid time off, competitively priced health/dental/vision/life insurance, tax-advantaged savings accounts, and participation in the nationally recognized Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) pension fund. UW is a qualified employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF) programs.

Required qualifications include a minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in operations in an office setting, healthcare setting, higher education, or related field, experience working within a compliance or regulatory program, previous supervision experience, experience coordinating complex programs, projects, or operational processes across multiple stakeholders or work units, experience developing and improving operational processes, systems or procedures, with the ability to interpret and apply policy and requirements, and strong written, verbal, organizational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to handle several projects or initiatives at the same time.

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