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Posted: 25-Jan-26
Location: Akron, Ohio
Categories:
Internal Number: 31293
Full time
Day Shift
Onsite
Summary:
The Director of Research, Surgical Enterprises is a senior, non-clinical leader responsible for driving strategic growth, execution, and oversight of clinical, translational, and outcomes-based research across all surgical departments within a leading pediatric healthcare system. Collaborating closely with physician-scientists, institutional leaders, and the Rebecca D. Considine Research Institute, this role ensures alignment with the mission to improve pediatric health through discovery and implementation science. Operating within a federated research model, the director leverages centralized core functions-such as data science, biostatistics, clinical trials, and research integrity-while supporting embedded subspecialty teams. With access to a unified EHR and a broad patient population, the director advances high-impact surgical research and innovation.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Strategic Planning: Develop and implement the Surgical Research Strategic Plan in collaboration with institutional and departmental leadership.
- Align with Institutional Goals: Ensure research initiatives support priorities in quality, safety, innovation, and patient engagement.
- Integrate Across Specialties: Champion cross-disciplinary research across all surgical divisions, including general surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, and more.
- Foster Academic Partnerships: Build strategic collaborations with regional academic institutions to enhance research capabilities.
- Oversee Operations: Manage research budgets, personnel, and ensure efficient regulatory, IRB, and clinical trial processes.
- Support Embedded Teams: Provide oversight and mentorship to surgical specialty research professionals and ensure compliance with institutional standards.
- Advance Academic Development: Promote faculty engagement in research through mentorship, protected time, and shared infrastructure.
- Drive Talent Development: Mentor junior faculty and trainees, and develop surgeon-scientist pipelines in partnership with educational institutions.
- Secure Funding & Partnerships: Pursue funding opportunities and cultivate academic, industry, and philanthropic collaborations.
- Measure Impact: Establish KPIs for research productivity and provide regular reporting to leadership while ensuring regulatory compliance.
Other information:
Technical Expertise
- Familiarity with research integration into EPIC, COSMOS, REDCap, CTMS, and other clinical research platforms.
- Proven track record of mentoring junior investigators and promoting scholarly output.
- Demonstrated success in obtaining extramural funding (e.g., NIH, foundations, industry).
- Experience managing cross-disciplinary teams and complex research portfolios.
- Strategic Thinking and Execution
- Leadership and Team Building
- Grant Writing and Scientific Communication
- Stakeholder Engagement- including internal leaders, professional and physician-scientists and learners, and regional academic partners
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Research Compliance and Integrity
Education and Experience
- Education: PhD with a strong record of independent research productivity in a surgical or surgical-adjacent field required.
- Years of relevant experience: 3 years of experience in clinical or translational research leadership in an academic or integrated health system setting. Experience in pediatric or congenital surgical research, preferred.
- Years of supervisory experience: minimum 3 years Prior leadership in research strategy development or academic administration preferred.
Full Time
FTE: 1.000000