Job Listing: Solomon Center Executive Director

The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School seeks to hire an Executive Director. The Director may start anytime between now and September 2025. Please submit your application as soon as possible. 

The Executive Director will work closely with the center’s Faculty Director, Professor Abbe Gluck and Senior/Deputy Director, to direct all of the center’s work including its daily operations, programing, and the center’s numerous projects and initiatives. The Executive Director will oversee the Center’s budget, hiring and staff personnel matters. The Executive Director will work closely with the Faculty Director as well as administrative staff, research fellows, and visiting and adjunct health faculty direct and manage the center’s scholarly and policy projects, medical legal partnership program, panel discussions and events including large conferences, student fellows program (including students from all Yale University professional schools), alumni engagement, and communications. The Executive Director will serve as a spokesperson and liaison between the center to its many constituencies – students, research collaborators, faculty, alumni, staff, and more. 

The center’s work covers all areas of health care law and policy from the opioid crisis, to prison health, gun violence, medical legal partnerships, health equity, digital health, the Affordable Care Act, elder law, palliative care, FDA law, health anti-trust, the business of medicine, and more. 

The Executive Director will contribute to the center’s strategic growth and will have opportunities to pursue their own scholarship , teaching, and clinical or policy projects. 

Skills 

Outstanding communication and collaboration skills and ability to maintain important relationships with many constituencies 

Excellent organizational skills 

Ability to oversee multiple projects simultaneously and execute on deadlines 

Experience/Knowledge 

Expertise or knowledge of current topics in health law and policy 

Previous work within a health care setting or collaborating with medical partners is a plus 

Education 

J.D. strongly preferred but exceptional candidates without a J.D. but with expertise in health policy will beconsidered.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Interested applicants should send their resume/CV and three references to the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School at Health.Law@yale.edu. Since we have multiple openings, please include the name of the position to which you are applying in the subject line of your email.