Director, Network Operations

Reporting directly to the Senior Director of Network Operations, the Director of Network Operations provides strategic leadership and oversight for regional campus operations, ensuring efficient, high-quality, and patient-centered care across multiple sites. This role leads operational planning, staffing, scheduling, and process improvement initiatives, while serving as the subject matter expert on clinical systems, workflows, and performance metrics. The Director mentors and develops high-performing teams, collaborates with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, and drives continuous improvement initiatives to optimize patient flow, operational efficiency, and adherence to institutional policies and regulatory standards.

This position does not have a designated home base. The selected candidate will be expected to travel to and work onsite at all regional satellite locations as needed.

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations.

We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

• Clinical Operations / Management: Provide 24/7 operational oversight of clinic functions, ensuring continuous, safe, and high-quality patient care across all hours of operation. Monitor, compile, and distribute clinical and performance metrics/reports, drive data-informed decision-making and accountability. Collaborate with Operations Directors and VP, Network Operations to centralize functions (e.g., call center, NPCs, floats). Lead the planning, implementation, and scaling of new patient care services across all sites, ensuring consistency and operational readiness.
  
  Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements; support safe, efficient, high-quality care. Act as escalation point for operational and patient care issues, including after-hours. Develop, implement, and monitor administrative policies, processes, and procedures. Provide administrative support for meetings: draft agendas, track action items, follow up on next steps. Optimize resource utilization and clinic workflows; facilitate multidisciplinary work groups. Represent regional campuses on institute-wide committees.
  
  Drive resource allocation, staffing models, and workflow optimization to ensure appropriate coverage and throughput at all times.

• Regional Campus Oversight: Maintain full operational accountability for campus-based clinic performance, including staffing, patient flow, access, and service delivery. Manage implementation of new programs and coordinate multidisciplinary clinics. Track and reconcile safety reports; report trends and resolutions. Manage service level agreements and oversee the performance of host hospital ancillary services supporting regional campuses; track, elevate, address, and resolve service issues as they arise to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care and operational continuity.
  
  Liaise with Access Management, Billing, and FIO. Identify operational improvements in workflow, patient flow, and daily operations. Partner with Operations Director and Practice Manager on staffing: hiring, onboarding, performance management, and employee relations.

• Project Management and Quality Improvement: Support initiatives and programs across campuses to enhance operational performance and patient care. Identify and lead process and quality improvement opportunities. Participate in IT, Operations, and EMR projects as a subject matter expert. Serve on Quality/Process Improvement project teams to implement workflow and efficiency enhancements. Lead and manage enterprise-level projects affecting regional campuses, partnering with IT, Operations, and cross-functional stakeholders to plan, implement, and optimize initiatives that improve workflows, patient flow, access, and overall operational performance.

• Leadership and Team Management: Supervises staff. Hires, develops, and manages staff to…