Description
The University of Washington seeks a distinguished leader to serve as its Chief Data Officer (CDO) in UW Medicine Information Technology services and to serve as a core faculty in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME) at the University of Washington (UW). The faculty rank is Professor Without Tenure or Associate Professor Without Tenure levels. This is an exceptional opportunity for a faculty data science leader with operational experience to join a world-renowned medical school and academic health system to make a significant impact by leading the future direction of IT in support of clinical care, education and research. Guided by a compelling mission focused on improving the health of the public, UW Medicine, is a vibrant and progressive organization that includes one of the top academic medical centers and medical schools and biomedical research programs in the country (top public institution in the country in terms of federal funding).
Reporting to the UW Medicine Chief Information Officer with a dual report to the UW Chair of BIME for scholarship and education, the CDO will serve as the senior executive leader responsible for advancing UW Medicine's enterprise analytics. This includes data governance, data integration, and artificial intelligence strategy. This role ensures that UW Medicine’s extensive data assets are leveraged to drive strategic decision-making, operational excellence, patient-centered care innovation, research, and education. As the institutional leader for data and AI, the CDO defines the vision for a data-driven organization, ensuring that actionable insights directly support UW Medicine’s mission of improving the health of the public. The CDO oversees the healthcare data and analytics group within UW Medicine IT Services, providing executive and technical leadership for data warehousing, reporting, decision support, AI/ML systems, and advanced analytics capabilities.
The successful candidate will be an experienced leader who will provide strategic leadership and operational excellence for data, analytics, and AI working in a complex academic health system. The CDO must be a thoughtful and energetic leader who is engaging and can communicate effectively across a variety of stakeholder groups. This position requires relocation to the Seattle metro. A track record of grant funding is required.
The University of Washington has multiple professorial tracks and this offer is for a professorial title in the “without tenure due to reasons of funding” (WOT) track. The majority of School of Medicine faculty hired in the professorial track are hired under the WOT designation. Faculty appointed WOT have the same rights, responsibilities, and obligations as tenure-track and tenured faculty members at those ranks. However, faculty appointed as WOT do not hold tenure because all or part of their annual University-administered salary is derived from sources other than regularly appropriated state funds.
Please direct all nominations and applications to Hillary Ross, Zachary Durst, Scott Dethloff through the WittKieffer Candidate Portal (here).
The base salary range for this position will be $16,594 to $43,750 per month, commensurate with experience and qualifications.
University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status
