Overview
Join one of the nation's leading academic health systems and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare, research, and medical education.
As the Senior Executive Recruiter, Academic Affairs & Physician Leadership, you will lead high-impact national searches for physician executives, department chairs, research leaders, and senior academic administrators across University of Utah Health.
This highly visible role partners directly with executive leadership to identify and recruit exceptional talent that advances our clinical, academic, and research missions.
If you thrive in complex executive search environments and enjoy influencing organizational strategy through talent acquisition, this is a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact.
The Senior Executive Recruiter, Academic Affairs & Physician Leadership leads complex executive and senior-level recruitment initiatives across University of Utah Health with a primary focus on academic medicine, physician leadership, faculty recruitment, research leadership, and educational administration. This position serves as a strategic talent advisor to senior administrators and executive leaders responsible for advancing the organization's clinical, academic, research, and educational missions.
The Senior Executive Recruiter develops and executes sophisticated search strategies for highly specialized and often nationally competitive leadership positions requiring extensive knowledge of academic medicine, faculty appointment structures, physician compensation models, research enterprises, and higher education recruitment practices. The role functions as the organization's subject matter expert for executive-level academic recruitment and partners closely with senior leaders to attract exceptional physician, faculty, research, and educational talent that supports University of Utah Health's strategic priorities.
This position is an addition to the University of Utah Health's HR Talent Acquisition team, and will serve across the health system.
Meet our Talent Acquisition Team
Qualified candidates must have
- 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.
Preferred experience
- Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Higher Education Administration, or a related field.
- Executive search firm experience supporting healthcare, physician, or academic leadership recruitment.
- Experience supporting physician, faculty, or academic executive recruitment within an academic medical center, healthcare system, medical school, or higher education environment.
- Experience recruiting Department Chairs, Division Chiefs, Deans, Medical Directors, physician executives, or faculty leaders.
- Knowledge of faculty affairs, academic appointment processes, promotion systems, and physician compensation structures.
Corporate Overview: University of Utah Health is an integrated academic healthcare system with five hospitals including a level 1 trauma center, eleven community health centers, over 1,600 providers, and a health plan serving over 200,000 members. University of Utah Health is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. In addition to our clinical delivery system, we have a School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and College of Health providing education and training for over 1,250 providers annually. We have over 2 million patient visits annually and research grants exceeding $350 million. University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics represents our clinical operations for the larger health system.
As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission. EO/AA
Responsibilities
Essential Functions
Academic Executive Recruitment & Search Leadership
- 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.
Faculty & Physician Recruitment Expertise
- 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.
Strategic Partnership & Executive Consultation
- 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.
Candidate Assessment & Executive Selection
- 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.
Process Excellence & Compliance
- 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.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
- 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.
Qualifications
Required
- 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.
Qualifications (Preferred)
Preferred
- Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Higher Education Administration, or a related field.
- Executive search firm experience supporting healthcare, physician, or academic leadership recruitment.
- Experience supporting physician, faculty, or academic executive recruitment within an academic medical center, healthcare system, medical school, or higher education environment.
- Experience recruiting Department Chairs, Division Chiefs, Deans, Medical Directors, physician executives, or faculty leaders.
- Knowledge of faculty affairs, academic appointment processes, promotion systems, and physician compensation structures.
Working Conditions and Physical Demands
Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation.
- This is a sedentary position that may exert up to 10 pounds and may lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. This position involves sitting most of the time and is not exposed to adverse environmental conditions.
Physical Requirements
Listening, Manual Dexterity, Near Vision, Speaking
Multi-lingual Candidates Welcomed
To inquire about this posting, email: careers@hsc.utah.edu
EEO Statement
University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics, a part of The University of Utah, values candidates who have experience working in settings with students and patients from all backgrounds and possess a strong commitment to improving access to higher education and quality healthcare for historically underrepresented students and patient populations.
All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. Veterans’ preference is extended to qualified applicants, upon request and consistent with University policy and Utah state law. Upon request, reasonable accommodations in the application process will be provided to individuals with disabilities.
University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics, a part of The University of Utah, is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy-related conditions, genetic information, or protected veteran's status. The University does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and 34 CFR part 106. The requirement not to discriminate in education programs or activities extends to admission and employment. Inquiries about the application of Title IX and its regulations may be referred to the Title IX Coordinator, to the Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, or both.
To request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics Human Resources office at 801-581-6500. If you or someone you know has experienced discrimination or sexual misconduct including sexual harassment, you may contact the Director/Title IX Coordinator in the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO). More information, including the Director/Title IX Coordinator's office address, electronic mail address, and telephone number can be located at:www.utah.edu/nondiscrimination/
Online reports may be submitted atoeo.utah.edu/
The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (“URS”). Eligible new hires with prior URS service, may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Hospitals and Clinics Human Resources at (801) 581-6500 for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS’ post-retirement rules and restrictions. Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at (801) 366-7770 or (800) 695-4877 or Hospitals and Clinics Human Resources at (801) 581-6500 if you have questions regarding the post-retirement rules.
This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen.
Requisition Number 86113
Reg/Temp Regular
Employment Type Full-Time
Shift Day
Work Schedule M-F, 8am to 4:30pm; onsite Tuesdays and Fridays
Clinical/Non-Clinical Status Non-Clinical
Location Name Business Services Building
Workplace Set Up Hybrid
City SALT LAKE CITY
State UT
Department COR ISC 05A TALENT ACQUISITION
Category Human Resources
Workplace Set Up Hybrid