Department

Orthopaedics-414601

Career Area

Academic Administration

Posting Open Date

02/22/2023

Application Deadline

03/24/2023

Open Until Filled

No

Position Type

Permanent Staff (EHRA NF)

Working Title

Associate Chair for Administration

Appointment Type

EHRA Non-Faculty

Position Number

01001872

Vacancy ID

NF0006694

Full Time/Part Time

Full-Time Permanent

FTE

1

Hours per week

40

Position Location

North Carolina, US

Hiring Range

Proposed Start Date

03/01/2023

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 Orthopedics 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 Department of Orthopaedics consists of 27 faculty members and 19 advanced practice providers spanning 9 subspecialties of Orthopaedics – Adult Reconstruction, Adult Spine, Foot and Ankle, Hand and Microsurgery, Orthopaedic Oncology, Pediatric Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Nonoperative Sports and Musculoskeletal Medicine, and Orthopaedic Traumatology. The Department provides surgical care at UNC Medical Center and UNC Hillsborough, as well as at ambulatory care sites in Chapel Hill and West Cary; last year over 5900 procedures were performed in these locations. Providers currently see over 63,000 patients annually in 8 outpatient clinic locations: Ambulatory Care Center, Carolina Pointe II, Panther Creek, Weaver Crossing, UNC Spine Center, UNC Specialty Clinics at Pittsboro and Sanford, and UNC Pediatric Specialty Clinic at Blue Ridge. Using telemedicine, our providers collaborate with patients across the state, including arranging care for prison populations and working in partnership with our rural counterparts to provide urgent orthopaedic care when needed. The Department’s ability to hit key clinical growth goals depends on strong collaboration with partners in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Radiology, Family Medicine, Neurosurgery, Surgery, Pediatrics, Athletics, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

The Orthopaedics Department research is supported by one full time research faculty and a growing staff of post-doc and research assistants working to build our burgeoning program with over $2.25 million in funded dollars. Our clinician scientists published over 100 articles last year on projects funded through the NIH, NFL, DOD and industry partners. The educational mission includes undergraduate, GME and CME-focused programs including a vibrant orthopaedic surgical residency curricula, and budding fellowship programs in Sports Medicine and Pediatrics.

The culture of UNC Department of Orthopaedics tends towards a distributed leadership approach and consensus driven decision making with use of faculty committees to determine policy and address complex issues. The ideal candidate will possess advanced skills in obtaining and analyzing financial data, clinical metrics and other data types needed to assist in decision making. The Department’s strategic plan requires strong communication skills, a collaborative nature, and a focus on innovative solutions to push forward its goal of being the nation’s top public musculoskeletal program.

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

Candidates should have five to ten years as a senior manager with experience in a medical practice or other health organization, ideally in an academic medical center. 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.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience

The successful Associate Chair will be an experienced, intuitive, creative, and dynamic leader with superior interpersonal and problem-solving skills. They 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.

Special Physical/Mental Requirements

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