Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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The chair provides strategic direction for the department in alignment with the university and health system partners thoughtfully stewards departmental resources and supports faculty growth and contributions to all mission areas.

Leadership and Institutional Commitment

• Promote and support the vision mission and strategic objectives of the KUSOM.

• Support the developmental and professional needs of medical and graduate students residents fellows other health professionals staff faculty and community physicians.

• Develop a departmental strategic plan to grow clinical programs research and teaching activities.

• Achieve national external measures of reputation and excellence.

• Engage in School of Medicine and university leadership meetings and committees.

• Ensure faculty and staff compliance with university and KUSOM policies.

• Provide leadership and mentoring to faculty members while promoting a positive workplace environment.

• Recruit develop and retain a talented faculty to fulfill the needs and missions of the department.

• Participate in School of Medicine and departmental fundraising initiatives.

• Supervise and evaluate performance of all faculty and staff members. Develop and implement annual faculty reviews in accordance with KUSOM and university policy.

Education

• Support faculty engagement in teaching medical students graduate students residents fellows and other learners across the department.

• Oversee that clinical rotations in the department are organized and taught.

• Ensure that postgraduate training programs (residencies and fellowships) are continuously accredited by the ACGME.

• Participate in continuing medical education activities.

Research

• Cultivate an environment that values and encourages scientific discovery and innovation.

• Promote faculty publication of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

• Achieve and maintain desired ranking in NIH research funding to medical school departments.

• Develop and maintain an independent extramurally funded research portfolio ensuring that research efforts are self-supporting.

Finance and Administration

• Oversee financial affairs and long-term fiscal stability of the department.

• Work with KUSOM and UKHS to develop annual financial and programmatic goals including designing department compensation plans for faculty.

• Partner with key financial stakeholders to develop annual budgets to include sources of income and expenses.

• Reinvest departmental funds in growing the academic and research enterprises.

• Resolve inquiries and complaints from employees students regulatory agencies or members of the academic or business community.

• Present information to faculty academic and campus leaders corporate leaders professional colleagues and public groups.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. It is only a summary of the typical functions of the job not an exhaustive list of all possible job responsibilities tasks duties and assignments. Furthermore job duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Required Qualifications

Work Experience:

• 10 years of department/division leadership experience.

• A currently held rank of associate professor or professor.

• Mentoring experience.

• A record in peer-reviewed scholarship as evidenced in application materials.

• Experience with operating budgets and fiscal management.

Skills

• Leadership skills.

• Interpersonal skills.

• Communication.

• Collaboration.

• Negotiation.

Required Documents

• Resume/CV

• Cover Letter

If selected as a final candidate for this position you may be required to complete the Association of American of Universities Representations and Warranties document and sign a release of records that will allow the University of Kansas Medical Center to conduct a further background check with former employers. A copy of the Representations and Warranties document can be found here.

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