Jobs at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Lead and scale advancement services including CRM/Blackbaud, data governance, analytics, prospect management, gift processing, direct response, events, and stewardship. Drive operational efficiency, campaign readiness, cross-functional alignment, and a donor-centered, data-driven fundraising program while managing and developing a multi-disciplinary team.

Manages daily operations of a biologics laboratory and biorepository supporting biomedical research. Coordinates shared resources, purchasing, equipment maintenance, vendors, workflows, safety training, regulatory compliance, and emergency response for stored biospecimens. Serves as Chemical Hygiene Officer, maintaining safety plans, inspections, records, chemical inventories, and corrective actions. Supports molecular, cellular, and organismal biology researchers while ensuring reliable laboratory infrastructure and compliance with institutional biosafety, IRB, and IACUC requirements.

Leads the strategic, operational, financial, clinical, fabrication, logistics, and administrative functions of Prosthetics and Orthotics services across the care system. Oversees quality, compliance, patient experience, reimbursement, budgets, staffing, business development, service expansion, and performance improvement. Builds interdisciplinary and external partnerships, supports research and education, and develops leaders and staff while advancing access, innovation, and sustainable program growth.

Provides Tier 1 hardware and software support through telephone and face-to-face assistance. Resolves technology issues, installs and troubleshoots hardware, software, peripherals, PCs, and printers, documents tickets and resolutions, prepares status reports, and supports network and application teams. Requires occasional travel to Chicagoland remote sites and the ability to move hardware weighing up to 30 pounds.

Lead complex financial modeling, long-range financial planning, treasury support, budgeting, risk and cost-variation analysis. Prepare management reports, present findings to senior leaders, mentor junior analysts, and improve data accuracy and reporting processes.

Manages daily office operations and administrative staff supervision, including payroll preparation, record keeping, vendor invoice entry, HIPAA-compliant release of billing records, scheduling, policy updates, bookkeeping, physician validation, and development of office systems and procedures to support clinical operations.

Leads research commercialization, industry-sponsored clinical trials, strategic partnerships, technology licensing, and collaborative research programs. Develops portfolio strategy, budgets, forecasts, pricing, and negotiation frameworks; oversees contracts, regulatory requirements, staffing, risk management, performance metrics, and cross-functional execution. Serves as a senior advisor to scientific and executive leadership while cultivating relationships with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, digital health, and academic partners.

Perform financial analysis, modeling, projections, and reporting to support budgeting, capital tracking, treasury functions, and business development. Collaborate with department managers, prepare monthly financial and capital reports, identify process improvements, perform risk and cost-variation analysis (including advanced statistical techniques), and support decision-making in a complex healthcare environment.

Perform front-desk reception, recordkeeping, scheduling, supply management, expense tracking, and clerical support. Enter and reconcile inpatient/outpatient charges using EMR and charge capture software, verify patient insurance and demographics, generate reports, resolve billing discrepancies with clinical staff, maintain medical staff files, and ensure HIPAA-compliant confidentiality.

Manage and direct daily office operations, record keeping, payroll preparation, vendor payments, scheduling, and administrative staff supervision. Ensure HIPAA-compliant release of billing records, maintain filing and reporting systems, validate physician credentials, update policies, perform bookkeeping (ReqLogic), and prepare correspondence and reports.

Purchase and manage inventory of pharmaceuticals for the Department of Pharmacy, select vendors, process purchase orders, handle recalls/returns, prepare inventory reports, assist pharmacists with controlled inventory, and perform pharmacy technician duties while supporting departmental operations and training.

Write, edit, and manage scientific manuscripts, grant proposals, reports, and related materials; ensure compliance with institutional and federal research standards; review collaborators' deliverables; consult with internal and external stakeholders; keep project teams informed of funding or institutional changes; may oversee Lead Scientific Writer and support project teams across the Center for Bionic Medicine.

Manage a team of business application analysts to design, implement, integrate, and support corporate systems (Workday/ERP/HRMS). Oversee application lifecycle, prioritize projects, liaise with leadership and operational teams, develop strategic plans, enforce policies, and ensure system reliability and user support.

Design and maintain secure, scalable data infrastructure and pipelines to ingest, process, and deliver structured and unstructured hospital data. Implement HIPAA-aligned data security, track data quality and lifecycle, perform capacity planning, mapping, ETL, modeling, and define governance and standards for storage, transformation, and analytics to support clinical, research, and business stakeholders.

Dispense and prepare inpatient medications (unit dose cassettes), prepack tablets/capsules, prepare IV admixtures under pharmacist supervision, order and inspect medication shipments, monitor expirations and returns, maintain pharmacy cleanliness and equipment, deliver medications to nursing units, and support inventory and documentation per policy.

The Clinical Nurse Leader manages unit-level patient outcomes by coordinating interdisciplinary care, collecting and analyzing clinical and functional data, implementing and modifying evidence-based care plans, mentoring staff, monitoring patient satisfaction and discharge readiness, and leading quality improvement initiatives. Serves as charge nurse when needed and collaborates on policy, education, and data-driven performance improvements.

Perform CT and related imaging procedures per protocols, evaluate and preliminarily interpret images, perform POC creatinine testing before contrast studies, provide patient education, notify physicians of changes, and support radiology operations while demonstrating core values and teamwork.

Designs and maintains BI dashboards, reports, and data models to support financial and operational decision-making. Pulls and validates EMR/EHR and financial data, builds pipelines (SQL), performs forecasting and variance analysis, and translates findings into visualizations. Leads cross-functional initiatives, mentors junior analysts, enforces data governance, and promotes self-service BI and data literacy across the organization.

Lead payor analytics and reimbursement strategy across Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payors. Partner with Finance and Revenue Cycle to model regulatory impacts, manage AR reporting and Medicare/Medicaid cost reports, support payor contract negotiations, oversee bad debt policy, and present financial recommendations to senior leadership.

Support implementation, configuration, and deployment of analytic systems; generate datasets and reports; build and maintain dashboards and reporting repository; translate business requirements into system design; configure and maintain analytics tools (e.g., REDCap, Tableau); perform testing, documentation, training, and on-call support; collaborate with clinical, research, and operations stakeholders to deliver analytics products and projects.