Chair, Family Medicine and Community Health

at University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Job Description

• Promote and support the vision, mission, and strategic objectives of KUSOM.
  
• Engender and advance a culture of academic excellence.
  
• Develop a departmental strategic plan to grow clinical programs, research and teaching activities.
  
• Achieve national external measures of reputation and excellence.
  
• Actively and regularly participate in KUSOM and university leadership meetings and committees.
  
• Promote faculty authorship of articles in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
  
• Ensure faculty and staff compliance with university and KUSOM policies.
  
• Provide effective leadership and mentoring to faculty members.
  
• Promote a positive and equitable workplace environment.
  
• Recruit, develop, and retain a talented and diverse faculty to fulfill the needs and missions of the department and KUSOM.
  
• Actively participate in KUSOM and departmental fundraising initiatives.
  
• Develop and implement a policy of annual reviews for all faculty members in accordance with KUSOM and university policy.
  
• Supervise and evaluate faculty and staff members.
  

• Actively promote the participation of department faculty in the teaching of medical students, graduate students, residents, fellows, and other learners.
  
• Ensure that clinical rotations in the department are well organized, well taught, and demonstrate a high degree of student satisfaction.
  
• Ensure that postgraduate training programs (residencies and fellowships) are of the highest quality and continuously accredited by the ACGME.
  
• Actively participate in continuing medical education activities sponsored by KUSOM.
  
• Support the developmental and professional needs of medical and graduate students, residents, fellows, other health professionals, staff, faculty, and community physicians.
  

• Promote a departmental culture which values and encourages scientific discovery and innovation.
  
• Develop and maintain an independent, extramurally funded portfolio of research.
  
• Promote the development and recruitment of clinician-scientists
  
• Achieve and maintain desired ranking in NIH research funding to medical school departments.
  
• Strive for research efforts to be self-supporting and based on extramural funding.
  

• Oversee financial affairs and long-term fiscal stability of the department.
  
• Work with KUSOM and UKHS to develop annual financial and programmatic goals.
  
• Partner with key financial stakeholders to develop annual budgets to include sources of income and expenses.
  
• Adhere to university and KUSOM financial, HR, and administrative policies.
  
• Provide effective oversight of administrative and financial leadership within the department.
  
• Reinvest departmental funds in growing the academic and research enterprises.
  
• Design department compensation plans for faculty and oversee administration.
  
• Resolve inquiries and complaints from employees, students, regulatory agencies, or members of the academic or business community.
  
• Effectively present information to faculty, academic and campus leaders, corporate leaders, professional colleagues, and public groups.
  

• 10 or more years of department/division leadership experience.
  
• A currently held rank of associate professor or professor.
  
• A well-established, distinguished record in peer-reviewed scholarship as well as demonstrated excellence in teaching and educational leadership in various learning environments as evidenced by application materials.
  
• Proven experience with operating budgets and fiscal management.
  

• Evidence of successful mentoring skills.
  
• Exceptional administrative and collaborative capabilities.
  
• Demonstrated leadership and communication skills; the ideal candidate is a strong motivator and coach, counselor, and negotiator in achieving the vision and goals set for the department.