JOB DESCRIPTION

Mount Sinai is among New York City's largest employers, with 42,000+ team members in both clinical and non-clinical roles throughout our eight hospital campuses and world-renowned medical school. We are one of the metro area's largest health care providers, with hundreds of ambulatory, primary, and specialty care facilities across the five boroughs, northeastern region and beyond.

Mount Sinai Health System recognizes data is one of our most strategic assets and should be governed appropriately to protect the privacy of our millions of patients while safely sharing the data with the employees/researchers/third parties who have permission to use it in alignment with our multi-part mission of patient care, education and research.

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was awarded nearly $500 million in research funding in 2023, with nearly $200 million of research enabled through the Scientific Computing and Data team. Mount Sinai is ranked 14 th nationwide in NIH funding and among the 99 th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

The mission of Scientific Computing and Data (SCD) team at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is to accelerate biomedical discovery and translation through collaborative research using high-performance computing, biomedical informatics and data science.

The Director, Science and Technology Communications will develop and implement a strategy for high-impact executive-level communications for SCD. The incumbent will raise the visibility of SCD through effective communication of SCD’s impact on scientific discovery. Audiences include senior leaders and the broader community internal and external to Sinai. The incumbent will collaborate, create, iterate and maintain original content for a variety of executive-level documents including but not limited to: manuscripts for publication, white papers, strategic plans, roadmaps, reports on SCD accomplishments, science and technology summaries, NIH and NYS proposals, NIH and NYS project reports, templates, articles, slide decks, NIH facilities documents and data sharing plans.

The incumbent will ensure professional, accurate and effective communications by proofing selected SCD communications including but not limited to: user surveys, processes, policies, and Institutional Review Board protocols. Guide others on the SCD to produce more effective and impactful communications.

The incumbent will collaborate closely with technologists and scientists internal and external to the SCD team. The incumbent will also coordinate with the Marketing team as needed. The Director, Science and Technology Communications will report to the Dean for Scientific Computing and Data.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop effective messaging and communication strategies tailored to each audience, including senior executives.

• Develop an implementation plan and execute the strategy.

• Develop a portfolio of SCD accomplishments, working with scientists and researchers and SCD members to understand and articulate the impact/ROI of SCD partnerships.

• Create and maintain original documents including slide decks, whitepapers and reports for effective executive-level communication.

• Develop and complete reports for funded NIH awards.

• Write text, develop tables, diagrams and graphics for NIH proposals.

• Create templates for a variety of situations including the development of use cases.

• Develop and collaborate on manuscripts for publication.

• Work with external partners to promote SCD’s accomplishments and impact.

• Create graphics to show trends and explain concepts.

• Create and publish a strategic plan for SCD.

• Prepare documents and plans for external advisory board meetings.

• Proof selected end user communications such as SCD’s feedback for user surveys.

• Proof SCD team documents on compliance-related policies and procedures for maximal clarity.

• Ensure accurate, professional, easy-to-understand, interesting and effective communications to all audiences.

• Participate in Mount Sinai-wide science and technology committees, producing slides and summaries in coordination with the Dean of SCD.

• Perform literature, NIH reporter and other searches to better inform communications.

• Collaborate with the SCD team, MSHS and external partners.

• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor?s degree in a technical or scientific discipline; PhD preferred.

• Ten+ years of experience developing communications for science and/or technology fields.

• Superior ability to communicate technical and scientific concepts to diverse audiences including senior leadership, the public, technologists, clinicians and scientists.

• Experience distilling and presenting complex scientific and technical ideas in a simple, easy-to-understand way.

• Superior writing skills.

• Experience working in an academic medical center preferred.

• Experience working on proposals to national funding agencies (NIH, NSF, DOE, etc.).

• Experience performing literature and other research searches.

• Experience creating graphics and easy-to-understand visual representations of ideas.

• Excellent leadership, collaborative and partnership skills.

• Attention to detail.

Non-Bargaining Unit, 092 - High Performance Computing - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine

REQUIRED SKILLS

MS Excel

MS Word

ABOUT US

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Requisition ID : 3016793