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Department:

SOM KC Neurology

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Neurology

Position Title:

Senior Associate Dean Faculty Affairs and Development - Professor

Job Family Group:

Academic

Job Description Summary:

The Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development (SADFAD) has primary responsibility for all processes related to the life cycle of faculty, including faculty appointments, faculty advancement, and faculty development. The SADFAD serve as a key advisor to the Executive Dean in matters relating to KUSoM faculty, including appointments, assessments, policies, performance, and allocation of resources. The SADFAD represents the School of Medicine in settings in which institutional policy decisions may be made related to faculty.

The SADFAD works closely with and reports directly to the KUSoM Executive Dean. The SADFAD also works closely with the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, General Counsel\'s office, Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Human Resources Officer, and the Health System regarding implementation of institutional policies that will affect KUSoM faculty. These include academic appointments across schools, employment or other compliance and regulatory policies affecting all faculty, the relationship between academic and clinical appointments, and other issues that may require a coordinated institutional response regarding faculty.

The SADFAD works with KUSoM Deans in Wichita and Salina and the Wichita Faculty Affairs dean to oversee and coordinate cross campus appointments for individual faculty as well as to coordinate faculty policies so that they are uniformly applied across campuses.

The SADFAD collaborates closely with the KUSoM Associate Dean for Finance and the Senior Associate Dean for Research (SADR) in determining resource allocations to faculty, programs and initiatives related to the School\'s ongoing and planned faculty recruitments. The SADFAD works closely with the SADR in setting expectations and evaluating faculty performance related to research; in developing evaluative instruments; in setting and communicating performance goals related to research; in creating mechanisms to advance faculty development related to research and to create new research and administrative leaders. The SADFAD works closely with the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education in evaluating faculty teaching expectations and performance and aligning faculty recruitment with educational needs.

The SADFAD works closely with Health System leadership to coordinate hiring of clinical faculty dually employed by UKP, including allocation of resources, and creating policies and procedures that involve both entities as they relate to faculty appointments and activities.

Job Description:

Required Qualifications

Education:

• This position requires an MD, PhD or equivalent degree.

Work Experience:

• Five years of experience in faculty-related activities in areas relevant to operations of an academic medical center including broad knowledge of faculty teaching activities (UME, GME, graduate), faculty research roles and opportunities, and programs for faculty development and progression.
• Operational experience in an academic healthcare environment.
• Experience in planning assignments, reviewing work, and supervising others.

Preferred Qualifications

Work Experience:

• The incumbent should have five to ten years of progressively responsible leadership and administrative experience.

Skills:

• Strong Analytical ability.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment in applying and interp eting policies and procedures; interpersonal skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships with research investigators and all levels of personnel.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely both verbally and written.

Job Duties Outline:

1) Provide leadership and strategic direction in the KUSoM

Serve as a key member of the Executive Dean\'s Advisory Team and participate in faculty-related committees as appropriate.

Provide technical and analytical expertise to the Executive Dean on a broad spectrum of issues related to faculty.

Lead the effort to organize and implement annual faculty assessments for all KUSoM faculty. Provide continuous improvement of the process, including providing feedback to department chairs.

Provide guidance to the Executive Dean in addressing faculty performance concerns.

Lead the development, implementation and continued review of strategic goals regarding faculty promotion and the award and maintenance of tenure.

Develop, implement, and maintain the faculty activity database (FACT), in collaboration with the SADR, and develop collaborations for widespread use within the institution.

Assume a key role in optimizing and maintaining the KUSOM mission-based resource allocation mo