Administrator - Department of Bioethics and Humanities

## Administrator - Department of Bioethics and Humanities Apply locations:
Seattle, WAtime type:
Full time posted on:
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- ** Job Description
**** DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW
** The Department of Bioethics & Humanities is an independent unit in the UW School of Medicine, based in the Health Sciences complex. Our 11 interdisciplinary core faculty—drawn from medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities—work across the School’s two major domains: biomedical research and clinical care and operations, providing ethics support across the translational pipeline—from bench discovery and preclinical models to clinical trials, bedside care, and system-level policy.

With an annual budget of approximately $2 million, we partner across UW and Seattle Children’s and maintain a thriving adjunct and affiliate program with 38 members.

Research:
We conduct empirical bioethics and humanities scholarship on health equity and justice; genomics and other emerging biotechnologies; clinical, organizational, and research ethics; and policy. Our work is collaborative, problem-driven, and closely connected to laboratory, clinical, and community settings at the University of Washington.

Education:

We offer a Master of Arts in Bioethics and an Undergraduate Minor in Bioethics & Humanities, along with curricula in clinical ethics and professionalism for medical students, residents, and fellows, and continuing education for practicing clinicians and healthcare professionals through two main programs:
Advanced Training in Healthcare Ethics and Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics.

Service to UW Medicine:
We provide ethics expertise through the Clinical Ethics Consultation Service, faculty and trainee education, and contributions to ethics committees and policy development—supporting high-quality, patient-centered care and responsible research and innovation across UW Medicine.

Highly collaborative, the department brings rigorous scholarship together with practical service—advancing ethical reflection and action where science, medicine, and society meet. Given the department’s breadth, the administrator must be agile, partnering with the Chair to lead supervision, counsel, service, and strategic planning across all operations.
** GENERAL DESCRIPTION
** The Administrator reports to the Department Chair and School’s Associate Dean of Administration and Operations and serves as the business manager and senior administrative support representative for the Department. As such, the Administrator has a comprehensive range of responsibilities, including: financial planning/management, budget development, supervision of the Department’s classified and exempt staff, personnel, payroll, purchasing, special project support, and other administrative functions for the School of Medicine.
As a UW SoM Department Administrator, the incumbent carries out duties prescribed by the directing, overseeing, or partnering institutions and organizations. The critical knowledge and skills are organized into the areas of:
Financial Management and Development Activities, Operations Management, Compliance and Risk Management, Research Management, Information Management, Human Resource Management, Facilities Management and Educational Program(s) Management. He/she/they acts in an advisory capacity to the Chair and various Department committees, providing financial guidance, background information, and management advice. In addition, the Administrator is the Department's primary working-level interface with the Dean's Office and other departments in the University regarding administrative issues.

This position  supervises 3 administrative staff.

The position is
** 75% FTE** (30 hours per week) and is eligible for a hybrid work schedule. The position requires the incumbent to be available Monday through Friday during standard business hours.
** DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
**** OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT – 40%
*** Manages department operations to ensure the day-to-day and cyclic requirements are met; plans, resources, and monitors programmatic activities; prepares reports, terminates, or continues programs; plans or coordinates marketing documents or…