Associate Chair for Administration

University of North Carolina, United States

Updated: about 2 years ago
Location: Chapel Hill, NORTH CAROLINA
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 28 Jan 2022

Posting Information
Department Radiation Oncology-413001
Career Area Academic Administration
Posting Open Date 01/07/2022
Application Deadline 01/28/2022
Open Until Filled No
Position Type Permanent Staff (EHRA NF)
Working Title Associate Chair for Administration
Appointment Type EHRA Non-Faculty
Position Number 01002083
Vacancy ID NF0005525
Full Time/Part Time Full-Time Permanent
FTE 1
Hours per week 40
Position Location North Carolina, US
Hiring Range Dependent on qualifications
Proposed Start Date 04/01/2022

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit
The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service. 
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.
Position Summary
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service. The UNC School of Medicine, partnered with UNC Health Care, is consistently ranked among the top medical schools in the US. As an institution, we strive to promote a diverse, inclusive environment where our colleagues excel in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. 
Chapel Hill is a vibrant college community that borders the Research Triangle Park, known globally for innovation in research & technology, along with Durham and Raleigh. With its famed collegiate rivalries, beautiful green spaces, and thriving economies, our region is consistently ranked as one of the best places to live, work, play, and learn.
The Associate Chair for Administration (ACA) in the Department of Radiation Oncology partners with the Chair to develop a strategic vision to lead the Department to stellar performance in all missions: clinical care, education, research, and service and ensures departmental resource allocation in support of strategic priorities, with a focus on school and system alignment. The Associate Chair assumes substantial independent senior administrative authority in the Chair’s Office for leadership and innovative direction for the Department’s policy development and implementation of systems and initiatives to attain goals.
The ACA for the Radiation Oncology department serves as a senior advisor to the Chair, broadly assists the chair in overseeing/managing all aspects of the department. The Chair seeks a creative energetic partner to help guide and build our departmental programs in all areas. The ACA will oversee the SOM-employed staff and promote a culture that embraces the principles of Lean, organizational clarity, and systems-thinking in all of their work. 
Clinically: We have a complex clinical operation spanning nine locations throughout the state. The ACA helps to assure that we have appropriate staffing/support at each of these locations and works with our hospital partners at all locations to negotiate contracts, plan strategically, and assure that our faculty’s needs are known and addressed. 
With regard to research, the ACA (and staff) works with the research faculty in managing space, funding, and other related matters, and helps to coordinate activities with LCCC. 
With regard to education, the ACA (and staff) works with the education faculty in managing learner recruitment, staff, space, funding, and all other related matters, and helps to coordinate activities with UNCH and other entities on campus. 
The ACA (and staff) are available to assist all of our SOM faculty and staff in addressing concerns. As needed, the ACA escalates concerns to the appropriate departmental leaders (e.g. chair, vice-chair, etc.), where they together plan responses and associated actions. 
The ACA (and staff) creates and monitors the clinical and overall departmental budgets, and faculty productivity (e.g. clinical, research, education, etc.), and provides guidance regarding expense allocation, compensation, incentives, and related matters.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements
Minimum qualifications of an advanced degree, masters or higher (or foreign degree equivalent), and no less than 5 to 7 years of management-level experience in the full range of administrative and financial functions of an academic department or research center in a higher education, research, or health care setting. Candidates with 7 to 10 years of directly comparable experience may substitute for the required advanced degree in which case a bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) and the requisite experience is mandatory.
Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
The Associate Chair must possess superior verbal and written communication skills, excellent interpersonal behaviors, and the capacity to inspire confidence in his or her reasoning and decision-making. 
The successful Associate Chair will be an experienced, intuitive, creative, and dynamic leader with superior interpersonal and problem-solving skills. S/he will have well-developed attributes of professionalism, leadership, communication, presentation abilities, superior organizational skills, as well as analytic expertise. Critical skills and knowledge required are focused but not limited to the following areas: program development and growth, strategic planning, customer service, patient/physician/staff satisfaction, quality improvement, marketing, public relations, physician recruitment, public speaking, financial management, operational leadership, and human resource management.
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
Prefer candidates with five to ten years as a senior manager with experience in a medical practice or other health organization, ideally in an academic medical center.
Special Physical/Mental Requirements
Campus Security Authority Responsibilities

Not Applicable.
Special Instructions
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Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran. 

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