Senior Executive Recruiter, Academic Affairs & Physician Leadership - University of Utah Health HR

University of Utah Health•SALT LAKE CITY, UT

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Executive Recruiter, Academic Affairs & Physician Leadership is responsible for leading full-cycle recruitment for senior academic and physician leadership positions at the University of Utah Health. This role involves partnering with academic and healthcare leaders to develop recruitment strategies, conducting intake consultations, and executing national recruitment strategies to attract distinguished faculty, physician leaders, researchers, and academic administrators. The recruiter will manage complex national searches, build candidate pipelines, and serve as a subject matter expert on academic faculty recruitment processes and physician leadership structures. Additionally, the role provides consultative guidance on organizational design, succession planning, and search committee processes, ensuring recruitment activities comply with institutional policies and regulations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Higher Education, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Seven years of progressive recruiting experience.
Five years of experience supporting executive, physician, faculty, or highly specialized leadership recruitment.
Demonstrated experience leading complex searches requiring extensive stakeholder engagement and strategic consultation.
Demonstrated ability to influence executive leaders and manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously.
Strong business acumen, professional judgment, and consultative communication skills.
Advanced expertise in academic medicine, faculty recruitment, and physician leadership recruitment.
Knowledge of faculty appointment structures, promotion pathways, tenure systems, and academic healthcare environments.
Exceptional executive sourcing, networking, and relationship-building capabilities.
Strong consultative skills with demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
Ability to evaluate complex leadership experience across clinical, academic, research, and educational domains.
Advanced interviewing and candidate assessment skills.
Strong project management and organizational abilities.
Ability to manage multiple national searches simultaneously.
High degree of professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality.
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.

Responsibilities

Leads full-cycle recruitment for senior academic and physician leadership positions, including Chiefs of Operations, Department Chairs, Medical Directors, Executive Directors, and other executive-level appointments.
Partners with academic and healthcare leaders to define recruitment strategies aligned with institutional goals, succession planning initiatives, and workforce needs.
Conducts comprehensive intake consultations to understand departmental priorities, academic expectations, research objectives, clinical responsibilities, and leadership requirements.
Develops and executes national recruitment strategies targeting distinguished faculty, physician leaders, researchers, and academic administrators.
Manages complex national searches requiring extensive sourcing, networking, stakeholder alignment, and confidentiality.
Builds and maintains pipelines of physician, faculty, research, and educational leadership candidates for anticipated and future opportunities.
Serves as a subject matter expert regarding academic faculty recruitment processes, faculty appointment tracks, promotion pathways, tenure systems, and physician leadership structures.
Partners with School of Medicine and Academic leadership regarding faculty recruitment strategies and candidate evaluation.
Advises leaders on market conditions related to physician leadership, specialty recruitment, academic medicine, and healthcare executive talent.
Develops targeted sourcing strategies leveraging professional associations, academic institutions, specialty societies, conferences, and research networks.
Maintains current knowledge of physician and faculty labor markets, compensation trends, and national recruitment practices.
Serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, department chairs, deans, faculty affairs leaders, and senior administrators.
Provides consultative guidance on organizational design, succession planning, search committee processes, candidate assessment methodology, and recruitment strategy.
Facilitates alignment among stakeholder groups involved in executive and faculty leadership searches.
Supports leaders in interview design, candidate evaluation, finalist selection, and executive hiring decisions.
Develops recruitment strategies that advance institutional objectives for excellence, innovation, education, and workforce.
Conducts advanced assessments of executive, physician, and academic leadership candidates.
Evaluates candidates for clinical, academic, research, educational, and leadership accomplishments.
Assesses leadership competencies, strategic thinking, organization fit, academic achievement, scholarly contributions, and mission alignment.
Coordinates complex interview processes involving search committees, executive leadership, physician leaders, faculty stakeholders, and governing bodies.
Partners with human resources colleagues and organizational leadership to support offer development and negotiations.
Ensures recruitment activities comply with institutional policies, equal opportunity requirements, accreditation standards, and applicable employment regulations.
Maintains accurate documentation, reporting, and candidate records within applicant tracking systems and related technologies.
Develops and implements best practices that enhance executive search effectiveness and candidate experience.
Identifies process improvement opportunities and recruitment innovations that support organizational growth.