Director, Health Informatics

Pace University College of Health Professions invites applications for a Director of Health Informatics. This is a full-time clinical faculty position (non-tenure track, 12-month contract) located on the New York City campus. Academic rank and salary are commensurate with educational preparation and experience, with an anticipated annual range of $110,000 - $120,000.

This position will be a combination of administration, teaching, and service. Administrative activities will include program and course development, student recruitment, student learning assessment and support, program progression standardization, seeking and sustaining programmatic accreditation, and faculty hiring and mentoring. This position does not have a research component. The ideal candidate will have prior experience and expertise in both academic administration and teaching at the post-secondary level. Experience with Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) is a plus but not essential.

Required Experience

• Candidates must have a minimum of a master’s degree (doctorate preferred) in either a healthcare or information technology discipline (e.g., licensed healthcare discipline, public health, healthcare administration, informatics, artificial intelligence, computer science, statistics, biostatistics, bioinformatics, machine learning etc.)
• Graduate teaching experience
• Academic administrative experience
• Online teaching experience
• Must have US Employment Authorization

Our ideal candidate

• Is PMP certified;
• Has experience with both healthcare and information technology;
• Has online instructional design experience;
• Has online program administration experience;
• Has academic leadership experience or the desire for mentorship to a leadership role;
• Has prior experience with interdisciplinary collaborative academic endeavors and is a team player;
• Shares a deep commitment to effective teaching, developing innovative courses, and mentoring students and faculty;
• Demonstrates a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness and actively promotes diversity; and
• Will engage in professional service within the University and beyond

The College of Health Professions is a thriving academic community within Pace University that is ranked #1 among private, four-year colleges for upward economic mobility by Harvard University’s Opportunity Insights. The University was also recently ranked #4 in "Top 10 Colleges Deserving Recognition for their Response to COVID-19" in College Magazine. The University offers a generous benefits package and a collegial work environment.

The College of Health Professions is a multidisciplinary health college that has successfully launched nine new programs in the past five years. The master’s degree in Health Informatics is a collaboration between the College of Health Professions and the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems and is one of the University’s signature interdisciplinary degree programs.

The Seidenberg School has just moved into a new building and has state-of-the art facilities supporting its computer science and information systems educational and research activities. The fully online master’s degree in health informatics took its first cohort in fall 2023 and we are now launching an additional full-time in-person program on our NYC campus in the heart of the financial district. We seek an innovative and experienced health informatics expert to direct and further develop this program.