Academic Human Resources Director - Department of Radiology

Director Of Academic Human Resources

The Department of Radiology at the UCLA Health David Geffen School of Medicine is seeking a strategic and experienced Director of Academic Human Resources to lead all HR operations, initiatives, and programs supporting a diverse and distinguished academic and clinical department.

Reporting to department leadership, this role provides comprehensive HR oversight for approximately 200 faculty across multiple clinical sites (including RRUMC, SMH, MLKCH, LBMH, Olive View / UCLA, WLAVA, and Harbor / UCLA), as well as 60 academic appointees, 83 trainees (residents and fellows), and 500 staff members.

In this key leadership position, you will shape and implement academic and staff HR strategies that advance the department's mission, vision, and goals. You will oversee a team of 10 HR professionals and 7 Education Program Office (EPO) staff, ensuring excellence in recruitment, onboarding, academic and staff personnel administration, employee relations, compensation, training, compliance, and performance management.

Serving as the primary academic HR liaison for the department, you'll collaborate closely with the Dean's Office, Graduate Medical Education (GME), School of Medicine HR, UCLA Health HR, and other institutional partners to ensure alignment with university policies, collective bargaining agreements, and accreditation requirements. You'll also oversee the preparation and submission of key professional and institutional surveys (AAARAD, AAMC, SCARD, MGMA, ACGME, and others).

This is a dynamic opportunity for a collaborative and forward-thinking academic HR leader to make a meaningful impact on departmental culture, operations, and the professional growth of UCLA's world-class Radiological Sciences community.

Salary : $8,808.33 - $19,541.67 monthly

Job Qualifications

Required :

• Demonstrated knowledge of University academic and staff personnel and payroll policies and procedures.
• Skill in creating and maintaining information systems related to personnel data and reporting needs.
• Working knowledge of University accounting procedures to accurately develop faculty salary distributions for payroll purposes.
• Ability to work effectively under deadlines, changing priorities, and deal with sensitive personnel issues.
• Experience in counseling and mediating personnel conflicts.
• 5 years of experience working in and / or managing an HR environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge and skill in all phases of the School of Medicine academic personnel policies, Departmental Practice Plan, budgets, benefits, and academic personnel issues.
• Ability to communicate effectively and diplomatically with all levels of faculty and staff; to give and receive information and clarify policy according to University and Departmental guidelines.
• Skill, knowledge, and ability to direct and implement the compilation of all academic personnel actions regarding appointment processing, payroll, visas and licensure, and benefits.
• Math skills to analyze and execute the computation of academic personnel salaries based on many types of funding.
• Skill and knowledge to plan details for administrative studies; determine and locate sources for collecting information; review, analyze, and summarize reports.

Preferred :