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Director of Operations- Novel Therapeutics

Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO Full Time
POSTED ON 4/17/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/24/2026
Job Overview

The Director of Operations provides strategic and operational leadership for the novel therapeutics program at Children's Hospital Colorado. This program provides the enterprise structure that supports the safe, scalable, and compliant delivery of advanced and complex therapeutics across inpatient and outpatient care settings. It brings together clinical, research, and operational leaders to ensure high quality care, coordination of complex processes, and strong system stewardship for both investigational and FDA approved therapies. This innovative program positions Children’s Hospital Colorado as a national leader in the delivery of emerging therapeutic modalities.

This role will drive strategy and achievement of goals, develop team leaders and operational teams and ensures operational effectiveness, including, but not limited to, with communications, resource allocation and financial management. Operationalizes efforts to ensure achievement of strategic plans and operational goals in service, quality, safety, finance, growth and people.

Key Responsibilities

  • Sets strategy, governance, and resource alignment in support of the novel therapeutics program
  • Develop and assess SOP/Guidelines/Best Practices for novel therapeutics across tiers, settings, and teams (investigational and FDA). Serves as a champion of enterprise-wide culture, including influencing culture change to support operational objectives.
  • Participates in leadership activities that contribute to the achievement of goals and objectives and evaluates operational performance.
  • Oversight and development of program effectiveness including metric development and maintenance for novel therapeutics.
  • Facilitate coordination and oversight of operational processes with SMEs/Partners across the lifecycle and system of care.
  • Manages communications to the enterprise and across the campus regarding strategy and program updates, and activities.
  • Fosters and maintains effective working relationships with peers across the enterprise, in addition to with external service providers and stakeholders.
  • Oversees the preparation, analysis, monitoring and communication of operational reporting.
  • Determines necessary space, equipment, supplies and support systems to ensure effective functioning of operations.
  • Assigns and reviews annual goals and provides development opportunities for team leaders and team members. Evaluates performance of assigned team leaders and team members and provides continuous feedback. Accountable for managing entire employee lifecycle of team, including hiring, development, performance management, discipline and termination.
  • Accountable for financial management, including, but not limited to, managing and monitoring budgets and expenditures throughout the fiscal year.
  • Manages, directs, and allocates resources to oversee effective and efficient operations.
  • Accountable for ensuring compliance with any relevant federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations. Manages process improvement and quality assurance activities.
  • Provides project management leadership by creating charters (when applicable), timelines, milestones, and goals and objectives for projects and programs. Keeps projects on time and on task. Engages appropriate leadership in project management process and works to achieve active buy-in from stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in health care administration, business/management, finance, nursing, or a directly related field is required.

Experience: Minimum of five (5) years of experience directing and managing the business operations of one or more functions in a complex health care environment plus three (3) years of leadership experience.

Equivalency: Four years of relevant experience above and beyond the minimum experience requirement can substitute for a bachelor’s degree.

Preferences

Previous experience with:

  • Setting operation or program strategy for innovative, complex healthcare programs to support an evolving scientific landscape.
  • Directing cross-functional initiatives across clinical, research, regulatory, or administrative teams.
  • Integrating processes across tiers, settings, and teams
  • Development and monitoring of KPIs, dashboards, and performance assessments for clinical and/or operational programs.
  • Demonstration of use of data to identify gaps and drive improvements.
  • Leading enterprise and/or campus-wide communications related to program strategy or updates.
  • Managing program budgets, expenditures, revenues, forecasting, and resource planning across fiscal cycles.
  • Directing teams and allocating resources for maximum efficiency, including optimizing staffing models and redesigning workflows

Salary Information

Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $134,579.79 to $224,299.64

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Salary : $134,580 - $224,300

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