Associate Chair for Administration

A global higher education leader in innovative teaching, research and public service, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill consistently ranks as one of the nation's top public universities. Known for its beautiful campus, world-class medical care, commitment to the arts and top athletic programs, Carolina is an ideal place to teach, work and learn.

One of the best college towns and best places to live in the United States, Chapel Hill has diverse social, cultural, recreation and professional opportunities that span the campus and community.

University employees can choose from a wide range of professional training opportunities for career growth, skill development and lifelong learning and enjoy exclusive perks for numerous retail, restaurant and performing arts discounts, savings on local child care centers and special rates on select campus events. UNC-Chapel Hill offers full-time employees a comprehensive benefits package, paid leave, and a variety of health, life and retirement plans and additional programs that support a healthy work/life balance.

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 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 prepare tomorrow's healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

The Associate Chair for Administration ( ACA) partners with the Chair in the Department of Medicine to develop and execute on a strategic vision and to lead the Department across 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 with responsibility for the Department's policy development, oversight of human resources and fiscal management, and implementation of systems and resource management to advance the stated goals.

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 in internal Departmental activities and as the liaison 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 Associate Chair work hand-in-hand to set the direction and determine the strategic priorities of the Department to assure that the Departments mission is achieved. The ACA has primary responsibility for: 1. Financial Planning, Development, and Management 2. Clinical and Business Operations Management 3. Human Resources Management 4. Sponsored Programs Management 5. Planning and Marketing 6. Governance and Oversight.

The Department of Medicine, the largest academic department in the nation's first public university, truly embraces its tri-partite mission, leading in research, education, and clinical services, poised within the Faculty Practice, the School of Medicine, and UNC Health.

The Department's vision is to: support and accelerate the research engine by supporting and recruiting the best and brightest investigators, to recruit and train the next generation of internists whose interest span the broad swath of medicine today, and what medicine will become tomorrow, and to transform clinical medicine into patient-centered care, with the highest standards of quality, compassion, and cost-consciousness.

The Department is comprised of 450 faculty, 900 adjunct faculty, 130 advanced practice providers, 96 internal medicine residents, 100 fellows, and 320 staff organized across twelve medicine subspecialty divisions, two 340B pharmacy programs and three internal research units. In addition to its internal research units, the department works in partnership with leading research centers in cancer, GI, HIV, kidney, aging, and lung.

The clinical programs are broad and while anchored in Chapel Hill, span the state, and draw patients internationally. Our clinicians are particularly skilled at serving individuals with complex, chronic diseases such as cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, vasculitis, and advanced heart failure. Our collaborative approach and co-located clinical areas facilitate multi-specialty care. Our outpatient facility at Eastowne provides a home for Medicine's multispecialty care disciplines, serving a diverse population through 185,000 annual visits.

The UNC School of Medicine is ranked #5 nationally in NIH funding among public universities. The Department of Medicine has basic science and clinical science research programs with numerous NIH-funded investigators with special expertise in areas including cancer immunogenetics, the microbiome, HIV, diabetes therapies, clotting disorders, emerging infectious diseases, and esophageal disease. The Department also has a clinical trials unit.

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.

The Associate Chair must possess superior verbal and written communications skills, excellent interpersonal behaviors, and the capacity to inspire confidence in his or her reasoning and decision making.

The successful candidate will be an experienced, intuitive, creative, and dynamic leader with superior interpersonal and critical thinking 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 services, patient/physician/staff satisfaction, quality improvement, marketing, public relations, physician recruitment, public speaking, fiscal management, operational leadership, and human resources management.

Candidates must have seven to ten years of experience as a senior manager in a medical practice or other health care organization, ideally in an Academic medical center.

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.