Chair of Department of Biophysics
University of Miami
United States

Job Status: Full-time
Employee Type: Faculty


Overview

The Chair will provide strategic leadership and direction for all aspects of the Department and is responsible for its personnel, administrative, educational, and research/scholarly operations. The next leader will establish innovative curricular, training, and research programs to advance the Department to a position of academic and professional eminence while furthering the goals and mission of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.

The Chair is expected to promote team science within the Department and in collaboration with other departments at the Miller School of Medicine and the University of Miami. They will serve as a role model for faculty while fulfilling administrative responsibilities and representing the Department at functions with UHealth, the School of Medicine, and the external community.


Key Responsibilities, Goals, and Objectives

Education

  • Support strong educational and training opportunities to attract outstanding graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

  • Collaborate with the Executive Dean for Education and Policy to support the undergraduate medical education curriculum, NextGenMD

Scholarship and Research

  • Lead significant expansion of the Department's scholarship and research productivity

  • Increase externally sponsored research, particularly federal funding

  • Provide supportive infrastructure and mentoring to early-stage and mid-career faculty

Community Engagement

  • Establish close relationships with community partners and identify opportunities for engagement

Engage and Lead a Distinguished Faculty

  • Recruit, nurture, and retain outstanding faculty members with a commitment to inclusive excellence

  • Build rapport and esprit de corps among faculty with diverse research and academic interests

  • Establish a culture that makes the Department a sought-after destination for trainees

Note: This list is not all-inclusive and may be expanded as necessary.


Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is an accomplished researcher and mentor who can create an environment that engages and motivates others to achieve scientific excellence.


Requirements

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) required

Experience

  • Minimum 10 years of relevant experience

Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes

  • Ability to establish department goals, objectives, and vision aligned with a strategic plan

  • Ability to lead, motivate, develop, and inspire faculty and staff

  • Ability to develop and evaluate metrics of departmental success

  • Ability to direct, manage, implement, and evaluate department operations


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