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Employment Type: Permanent Staff (EHRA NF)

Vacancy ID: NF0009066

Salary Range: Dependent on Qualifications

Position Summary/Description:

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.

Education and Experience:

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.

Essential Skills:

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.

AA/EEO Statement:

The University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all to apply without regard to age, color, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.