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Senior Director, Health Policy and Clinical and Practice Affairs

Position Summary

The Society of Interventional Radiology has grown exponentially over the years and is currently looking for a Senior Director, Health Policy and Clinical and Practice Affairs. The ideal candidate will be a proven self-starter and possess a combination of years of experience and strong health policy skills to connect the dots in this complex medical specialty domain. In this highly visible role, the senior director is responsible for developing and implementing strategic advocacy, health care and reimbursement policy agendas at the federal and state levels, with both elected officials, regulatory bodies, and private payers. They are also responsible for providing leadership, oversight, and direction for the development of practice resources by the practice development and operations team. This position requires strong relationship building skills to effectively work with physician leaders, external advisors/consultants, and other SIR staff. This is an exciting opportunity to develop and execute a strategy that positions interventional radiology as a leader among medical specialties in today’s new healthcare delivery and payment systems. This position reports to SIR’s Executive Director.

SIR has engaged Kathy Williamson at Hyrebuzz, LLC to assist SIR in the recruitment selection process. Please submit your cover letter and resume to Kwilliamson@hyrebuzz.com

Essential Functions and Areas of Responsibility

Strategic Leadership

In collaboration with SIR leaders and volunteers, ensure appropriate goals, objectives and annual action plans are set within SIR’s existing strategic planning process.
Align and monitor activities and functions within the division and across the organization to ensure plan deliverables are being met.
Ensure leadership and members are informed and educated about SIR’s efforts and initiatives.
Provide high level coaching, management, and supervisory skills needed to drive the high performance our leaders and members expect from SIR.

Government and Payment Advocacy

Through supervision of the Director of Government and Policy Affairs, oversee and manage staff and programs related to federal and state legislative and regulatory advocacy and SIR’s Political Action Committee (SIRPAC).
Work closely with physician and staff leadership to identify, analyze, and develop strategy and content in response to emerging federal and state legislative policy issues.
Oversee SIR’s health and payment policy initiatives and related healthcare delivery, patient safety and socioeconomic activities. Through supervision of the Senior Manager of Economics and Coding oversee and manage staff and programs relating to physician reimbursement and coding, regulatory and health systems outreach, socioeconomics, and payer relations.

Practice Development and Operations

Through supervision of the Senior manager of Practice Development and Operations, oversee and manage staff and programs relating to SIR’s initiatives to support demand for high quality IR treatments and services, and to improve knowledge and understanding of IR workforce trends. Oversee the design of a portfolio of resources to support practice management; revenue cycle management, budget and proposal development, and calculation of P&L, NPV and ROI to support IR practitioners.

Representing SIR Externally

Engage with formal coalitions, informal networks and other stakeholders to obtain and share knowledge on legislative, regulatory, reimbursement and clinical and practice affairs issues.
Support government affairs team in drafting and finalizing comment letters and summaries on health policy legislation, regulatory, and coverage trends and decisions.
Identify opportunities and recommend tactics for increasing and promoting SIR’s voice to communicate its messages and brand as it relates to minimally invasive image-guided procedures.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree preferred, preferably in a public policy, government, or health-related field.
Minimum seven to ten years’ experience in health care and reimbursement policy and legislative and regulatory advocacy with a health/medical association (preferred), research organization, consulting firm, or other health-related organization
Staff management required.
Strong understanding of federal and state healthcare policy reimbursement systems.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Proven self-starter.
Demonstrated experience forming and maintaining collaborations and partnerships with external organizations.
Proven results to influence change and/or develop new methods of physician engagement.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex policy issues to diverse audiences. Proven results for generating publications or reports on healthcare policy topics.
Familiarity with health information technology (EHR and the transmission of health data) as well as medical terminology and vocabularies (CPT and ICD)
Desire for continuous learning to achieve deep understanding and knowledge of best practices, market trends and federal and state regulatory environment.
Superior communication and supervisory skills, especially interpersonal and organizational skills
Ability to travel nationwide 25% of the time.

SIR has engaged Kathy Williamson at Hyrebuzz, LLC to assist SIR in the recruitment selection process. Please submit your cover letter and resume to Kwilliamson@hyrebuzz.com

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This role is responsible for leading and managing all financial reporting and accounting processes for the entire organization. The ideal candidate will be adept at working with board members and delivering key financial presentations, developing financial and business models, as well as demonstrating sound investment strategy. The Senior Director of Finance partners with the Director of Business Technology to ensure that the development of business technology is aligned with the strategy and needs of the organization and is appropriately funded. The Senior Director of Finance supervises the Accounting Team

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This is a unique opportunity to grow the marketing team and have a positive impact on the interventional radiology community.

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Corporate Relations Coordinator

SIR is growing the Corporate Relations team and has an exciting opportunity to learn about the field of interventional radiology and make an immediate impact on the team’s success! The Corporate Relations Coordinator supports key projects and processes that advance the society’s efforts to promote alliances between interventional radiology and its corporate stakeholders. Candidate will serve in an administrative capacity, supporting a department of three development professionals, whose focus is on corporate stewardship, fundraising, and sponsorship/advertising sales.

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Development Division Intern

This position is responsible for assisting the SIR Foundation Development team in various aspects of the annual fundraising strategy, including annual giving, special events, and donor communications. The intern is expected to work part time (~15 hours/week) and can be used to fulfill an internship requirement as part of their university curriculum.

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Social Media Intern

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Publications Intern

SIR is seeking a driven and individual to work remotely with our publications team in the development of SIR’s Fall and Winter issues of IR Quarterly. In this position you will be working under the guidance of SIR’s Senior Editorial Manager and Director of Publications. Through this role, you will gain experience producing and publishing a quarterly magazine from start to finish, expand your editing portfolio, and support the The Kinked Wire podcast. This internship is an excellent opportunity for a student seeking publication experience or looking to work on a professional podcast.

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SIR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Working at SIR

SIR is a dynamic and balanced workplace. Our culture is based on our core values that include collaboration, agility, innovation, and confidence.

SIR offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

401(k) savings plan with employer match
Medical (choice of three plans)
Dental
Vision
Flexible spending account (FSA)
Health savings account (HSA)
Vacation and sick leave Personal days
10 paid holidays
Professional development
Tuition reimbursement
Choice of hybrid or remote work
On-site gym and free parking (Fairfax VA)

We work hard but we have fun, too. We have various employee committees that promotes staff recognition, organizes staff celebrations such as a summer picnic, end of year celebration and virtual/in person socials.

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