Strategic Visionary, Academic Health

7 days ago


Gainesville, Florida, United States InsideHigherEd Full time

Job Summary

The University of Florida seeks a Senior Vice President, Health Affairs to lead its health sciences initiatives. As a key member of the university's senior leadership team, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing a strategic vision for the health colleges, centers, and institutes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Strategic Vision: Develops, articulates, resources, and implements a strategic vision for the University of Florida's health colleges, centers, and institutes that supports the university's and UF Health's strategic plans.
  • Research and Academic Excellence: Holds overall responsibility and authority for research and education in the health sciences, fostering and supporting excellence in basic, clinical, and translational research programs in the health colleges and their contributions across the university.
  • Operations: Leverages the educational and research strengths of UF health sciences in alignment with the clinical mission of UF Health, ensuring the university's health colleges and related programs are operated in a financially-sound manner.
  • Governance: Leads collaboration with the health sciences' college deans and other senior leaders, providing leadership and direction for UF's academic programs in the health sciences.
  • Culture: Develops and fosters an environment of respect, competence, transparency, innovation, and principle-driven management, ensuring that interdisciplinary collaborations enhancing educational and research programs in the health sciences are encouraged and supported.
  • Advocacy: Cultivates strong, credible, and trusting relationships with alumni, donors, government leaders, and related external stakeholders in support of the educational, research, and clinical missions of UF and UF Health.

Desired Outcomes

  • Growth: Oversees successful expansion of the educational and basic, translational, and clinical research enterprises of the health sciences at the university in alignment with UF and UF Health goals.
  • Research: Improves quality and quantity of basic, translational, clinical, and population-based health sciences research and expands research activity to increase the overall impact of UF's research enterprise.
  • Education: Continues development and implementation of an innovative and interprofessional educational strategy, supporting the health colleges' education and training initiatives.
  • UF Health Alignment: Promotes the growth, reputation, and impact of the health colleges and the clinical enterprise by enhancing education and research, including the development of innovative educational strategies and development of novel prevention and therapeutic programs.

Requirements

  • Master's degree in an appropriate area of specialization and ten years of appropriate experience; or a bachelor's degree in an appropriate area of specialization and twelve years of appropriate experience.
  • Executive Leadership in complex academic environments, with substantial and progressive leadership experience within the academic health sciences as dean, institute director, or other broadly scaled leadership role.
  • Research and Education Leadership: Personal success in establishing and expanding an institutional research program in the health sciences, including strategic development and implementation in collaboration with scholars and practitioners outside the candidate's own field.
  • Operational Acumen: Demonstrated managerial abilities and enthusiasm for the administrative and financial responsibilities of the position, with understanding of the financial pressures facing academic health science centers and health care delivery organizations.
  • External Representation: Demonstrated success as the public face of an institution and in philanthropic pursuits.
  • Personal Scholarship: Strong preference for a physician-scientist or clinician-scientist with a strong record of scholarship, including a record of substantial, extramural peer-reviewed funding, and national/international recognition.


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