Division Manager

Job Summary:

The Division Manager serves as the Division's chief administrative officer and principal administrative partner to the Division Chief, providing administrative leadership for one of the Department of Medicine's largest and most operationally complex academic clinical enterprises. The position is responsible for integrating the Division's clinical, academic, research, financial, and administrative operations across multiple inpatient and specialty clinical service lines, faculty-led operational portfolios, and institutional partnerships to ensure coordinated execution of divisional priorities. Working with substantial independence within a matrixed organization, the Division Manager exercises broad judgment in organizational planning, resource stewardship, governance, and operational improvement while developing the systems, relationships, and administrative infrastructure that enable the Division to achieve excellence across its clinical, educational, scholarly, and health system missions.

Department Description:

The Department of Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) seeks applicants who demonstrate a commitment to excellence, inclusion, opportunity, and advancing health equity through collaborative leadership in academic medicine. We are seeking a Division Manager to serve as the Division's principal administrative partner to the Division Chief of Hospital Medicine, providing administrative leadership across the Division's clinical, research, educational, financial, and operational missions within a complex, multi-institutional environment.

The Division encompasses multiple inpatient and specialty clinical service lines, including the Faculty Inpatient Service, Resident Inpatient Service, Acute Care for Elders (ACE), Addiction Care Team (ACT), and Palliative Care Service (PCS), together with a growing research enterprise, educational programs, faculty development initiatives, and health system improvement activities. The Division Manager is responsible for integrating these operational portfolios into a coordinated academic clinical enterprise while ensuring alignment across clinical operations, finance, faculty affairs, research administration, education, quality, compliance, and institutional priorities.

The position functions within a matrixed organization in which major clinical, educational, research, quality, and faculty development portfolios are led by designated faculty leaders. As the Division's administrative leader, the Division Manager provides organizational leadership by coordinating execution across these portfolios through influence, shared governance, and independent judgment rather than direct supervisory authority alone. The position routinely aligns the work of faculty and other administrative leaders to ensure coordinated execution of divisional priorities while serving as the Division Chief's principal advisor on organizational planning, operational performance, financial stewardship, and administrative strategy.

Success in this role requires systems thinking, organizational leadership, and the ability to anticipate organizational needs, lead complex cross-functional initiatives, and develop sustainable solutions that strengthen organizational performance, faculty experience, and operational reliability. The Division Manager develops the organizational systems, governance structures, administrative infrastructure, and institutional partnerships that enable the Division to achieve its missions and continuously improve as a learning organization.

This position offers an opportunity to help shape one of the Department's largest and most dynamic divisions within a nationally recognized academic safety-net health system.

We seek a leader who embodies UCSF PRIDE Values of professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity, and excellence and who is committed to fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and continuously improving organization where faculty, staff, learners, and patients can thrive. 

This position is eligible for a flexible schedule including on-site and hybrid arrangements.