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About the Role

The Administrative Laboratory Director provides centralized administrative leadership and operational oversight for all Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) laboratories. This role coordinates cross-laboratory administrative functions, standardizes workflows, strengthens governance, and ensures consistent execution of agency requirements across finance, quality, staffing, reporting, and performance management. The role serves as a key operational partner to laboratory leadership and OCME executive leadership, enabling laboratories to focus on mission-critical scientific and forensic work.

Responsibilities

Oversee and coordinate administrative operations across all OCME laboratories (Forensic Biology, Molecular Genetics, Toxicology, Evidence, and other laboratory units as applicable).
Develop, implement, and maintain standardized administrative workflows, calendars, templates, and documentation across laboratories.
Serve as the central point of coordination for laboratory administrative deliverables, ensuring completeness, quality, and on-time execution.
Lead agency-wide administrative coordination for laboratory data collection, performance reporting, and benchmarking (caseload, staffing, budget, and quality metrics).
Manage the annual cycle for laboratory metric collection (multi-lab coordination, deadlines, validation, submission status tracking, and executive-ready reporting).
Establish and enforce data governance expectations including role-based access principles, draft vs. submitted status workflows, and data integrity controls.
Coordinate development, adoption, and continuous improvement of an online data collection and analytics platform to replace spreadsheet-based workflows.
Support annual benchmark updates and reference data maintenance (targets, definitions, measure updates).
Partner with OCME information technology teams and/or vendors to implement and sustain administrative platforms that support laboratory operations.
Maintain structured user management processes aligned with role-based access.
Ensure administrative systems have appropriate documentation, version control, and continuity plans.
Coordinate cross-lab budget planning inputs, tracking, and consolidation as directed by OCME leadership.
Support financial workflows including periodic spend tracking, personnel cost tracking, and procurement coordination.
Produce executive-ready summaries that integrate operational, staffing, and financial signals across laboratories.
Coordinate administrative components of quality management and compliance activities across laboratories in partnership with Quality Assurance leadership.
Standardize and monitor required documentation, schedules, and administrative evidence supporting accreditation and internal/external audits.
Support audit trail practices for administrative systems.
Facilitate cross-lab administrative working groups and routine check-ins to ensure alignment, remove bottlenecks, and manage dependencies.
Coordinate communications and change management for enterprise administrative initiatives (new tools, submission deadlines, policy updates).
Serve as escalation point for administrative workflow issues affecting multiple laboratories.
Identify inefficiencies and implement standardized improvements across administrative workflows.
Establish key administrative service levels (timeliness, completeness, error rates) and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

Selected candidates will be required to provide a DNA sample by swabbing.
This position has been identified as essential. During emergency events, essential positions may require 24-hour availability.
Authorization to work in the Unites States is required for this position.
Office of Chief Medical Examiner does not provide sponsorship for international employees for visa applications, extensions, or status changes, including STEM/OPT visas.
Applicants are responsible for ensuring that they meet all qualifying requirements for this position at the time of application.
FINAL APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET APPROVAL.

Skills

Criminalistics
Forensic science
Chemistry
Biology
Physics
Molecular genetics
Genetics
Biochemistry
Molecular biology
Entomology
Anthropology
Ecology

Location

New York City

Work Type

Full-time
Essential

Education Level

Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, with specialization in criminalistics, forensic science, chemistry, biology, physics, molecular genetics, genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology, anthropology, ecology or a closely related scientific or engineering field.

Salary/Compensations

USD 155000 - USD 175000

About the Company

The Office of Chief Medical Examiner investigates cases of persons who die within New York City from criminal violence, by accident, by suicide, suddenly when in apparent health, when unattended by a physician, in a correctional facility or in any suspicious or unusual manner or where an application is made pursuant to law for a permit to cremate a body of a person.
The core values of CARES guide our work for communities and inform our behavior toward each other and all those we serve.
Commitment: Dedicated to the mission at all times
Accountability: Responsible to each other and the community
Resilience: Adapt in the face of adversity
Excellence: Achieve and maintain the highest quality
Service: Innovate to meet evolving needs

Equal Opportunity

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.