Director of Research and Analytics - Department of Biomedical Informatics and GRC, Health Services and Population Health (Associate/Full Professor)

Job Title:Director of Research and Analytics - Department of Biomedical Informatics and GRC, Health Services and Population Health (Associate/Full Professor)

Department:Medicine | School Biomed Sci - Biomedical Informatics

Tenure faculty (regardless of rank) - persons with the titles of professor, associate professor, assistant professor and instructor who serve on appointments totaling 50% or more service to the university and who are eligible for tenure or who have obtained tenure. Duties and responsibilities are assigned in accordance with the workload guidelines laid out in the pattern of administration of each faculty member’s tenure initiation unit (TIU) and, as appropriate, regional campus; obligations will include research, service and/or teaching or clinical practice. These faculty will have earned doctorate or other terminal degree in the relevant field of study or possession of equivalent experience.

The Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Wexner Medical Center seeks a Director of Research and Analytics to join the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center (GRC).

Position Overview

The Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center (GRC) seeks a dynamic and experienced leader to serve as our next Director of Research and Analytics. The Director of Research and Analytics leads a large team with thirty staff under their direct supervision, maintaining a portfolio of 15 state and federal research grants. In addition, the organization includes twenty-five principal investigators who look to the Director of Research and Analytics for mentorship. The Director of Research and Analytics should be an accomplished senior academic researcher who has strong experience interacting with state health and human services agencies. This role requires executive level performance with regard to managing, mentoring, and leading multiple research agendas while providing a high level of service to executive-level health and human services state agency leadership.

Duties and Responsibilities

Research excellence

• Initiates research with focus on engaging with state government leaders to identify policy needs that are best fulfilled through state university partnerships. In addition, fosters investigator-initiated research in alignment with the GRC’s strategic goals. This initiation should generate growth in research budgets and offers the Director an opportunity to reinvest funds generated by dollars associated with research facilities and administrative rates.
• Guides and oversees research, ensuring high-quality, rigorous, and policy-relevant research initiatives that comply with federal and state regulations, ethical standards, and institutional policies.
• Executes strategies for research dissemination, including publications, reports, and presentations to policymakers and stakeholders.
• Demonstrates individual scholarly productivity by publishing in peer reviewed higher impact academic publications, serving on national level professional functions associated with the GRC’s mission, and expanding the GRC’s network of scholarly collaborators.
• Engages with academic partners in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) to encourage novel collaborative research partnerships between the GRC and the university.

Leadership and management

• Develop research leaders such as GRC and DBMI principal investigators and early career faculty through mentorship.
• Function as an executive in the organization: setting strategy, building infrastructure, securing finances, and fostering excellent organizational culture.
• Increase organizational effectiveness through internally focused efforts such as enhancing research processes, integrating projects, improving research communications, or stewarding professional development.
• Build strong relationships with state health agencies, academic institutions, and other research partners so that the GRC’s reputation advances as a thought leader.
• Collaborate with the GRC Director and senior leadership to align research priorities with organizational goals and policy needs.
• Represents GRC in external forums, advisory groups, and research collaborations at the state and national levels.
• Collaborate with DBMI Chair to identify shared areas of research innovation between the GRC and DBMI.

Teaching

• Direct one DBMI Graduate level course per year in a topic to be determined based on discussion with DBMI Chair.

Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Doctoral degree (PhD, DrPH, MD, or equivalent) in public health, health services research, health administration, policy analysis, or a related field
• 10 years of experience in research leadership within academic, government, or a related nonprofit sector. This leadership should be characterized by designing and implementing large-scale health services research projects
• Experience collaborating with state Medicaid agencies, public health departments, or mental health agencies
• Experience providing analytic support involving claims data, using advanced statistical and mathematical concepts to direct complex, high-volume data set initiatives.
• Excellent record of leadership and management of research teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 years of experience in research leadership within academic, government or related non-profit sector
• Proven ability to grow and manage multi-million-dollar research portfolios
• Prior public service experience such as leadership roles in governmental agencies
• Experience collaborating with state Medicaid agencies, public health departments, or mental health agencies
• Strong record of organizational effectiveness, leadership and development
• Teaching experience in Graduate level courses