Associate Chair for Administration
Associate Chair for Administration
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 Associate Chair for Administration (ACA) partners with the Chair in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine to develop a strategic vision to lead the Department to stellar performance in the clinical care, education, research, and service missions. The ACA 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 University of North Carolina Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is committed to being a premier Pathology Department among state-funded medical schools. This vision is enabled by our inter-related missions:
- Advocate for our patients by promoting excellence in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
- Actively promote the practice of evidence-based medicine. When evidence is lacking, we will work to provide it through basic and translational science using innovative preclinical models of disease and clinical investigation.
- Honor our Department’s rich history by continuing to lead research in understanding mechanisms of disease.
- Motivate our students, residents, and fellows to challenge dogma by encouraging an inquisitive and open learning atmosphere.
- Champion a diverse and inclusive clinical, research, and educational environment.
As the only Department at UNC School of Medicine that is both a basic science and a clinical department, the department serves an extremely diverse spectrum of learners, including medical and dental students, clinical residents and fellows, graduate students, postdoctoral students, and undergraduate students. More than 90 faculty fulfill the clinical, research, and comparative medicine functions of the Department. Clinical services include sub-specialized surgical pathology, cytopathology, hematopathology, transfusion medicine and blood banking, medical microbiology, clinical chemistry, clinical immunology, and autopsy pathology. More specialized services such as molecular genetic pathology, cytogenetics, human progenitor cell harvesting, histocompatibility testing, and apheresis services are also provided. Department research faculty are integral members of the interdisciplinary Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, McAllister Heart Institute, Blood Research Center, or Marsico Lung Institute. The Department sponsors its own graduate student training program, Pathobiology and Translational Sciences.
The Associate Chair serves several primary functions for the department. The Associate Chair is a member of the senior management team of the Department and directs all non-medical activities for the Department. In this role, the Associate Chair is a full-partner with the Chair. The Associate Chair represents the Chair in internal Departmental activities and to the Health Care System and University at large. The Associate Chair also serves as the Departmental representative to a large number of other external groups and individuals, including referring physicians, contract physicians and agencies, peer institutions, third-party payers, managed care companies, and vendors. The Chair and the Associate Chair work together to set the goals of the Department and to assure that the Department’s mission is achieved. The position’s primary functions are:
- Financial Planning, Development, and Management
- Clinical and Business Operations Management
- Human Resources Management
- Sponsored Programs Management
- Planning and Marketing
- Governance Leadership
The managers reporting directly to the Associate Chair are as follows: Clinic Manager Administrative Officer (HR, Accounting).
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements
Minimum qualifications of an advanced degree, Master’s 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 their reasoning and decision-making.
The Associate Chair will be an experienced, intuitive, creative, and dynamic leader with superior interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
The Associate Chair 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
Preferred candidates will have five to ten years experience as a senior manager in a medical practice or other health care organization, ideally in an academic medical center.
Please apply online at https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/257787
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.