Executive Director, Center Health Social Sciences; CHeSS

Executive Director for the Center for Health and the Social Sciences

The Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS) is seeking an experienced administrator to serve as executive director, reporting directly to the Faculty Director, providing leadership for the many ongoing initiatives underway in the Centers currently and forging strategic goals for future growth. CHeSS comprises four functional areas: grants and administration, the Methods Core, training and communications and research program areas such as the P30 CHABLIS center and the Program in Oral and Systemic Health and Well-Being.

The Executive Director oversees all functional areas, provides leadership to managers and professional staff and develops new collaborations across the division and University.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading all areas of CHeSS, including meeting all organizational programmatic, fiduciary and reporting responsibilities.
• Representing the Center divisionally and within the University.
• Overseeing all hiring and appointments, management of financial, IT, strategic and other planning to accomplish overall entity goals.
• Leading CHeSS Methods Core, including hiring and training of staff and negotiating of Methods Core contracts.
• Teaching content in educational programs.
• Conceiving and building new content, training and programmatic areas for CHeSS; developing new partnerships, and expanding specialties as relevant.
• Building an effective team of leaders.
• Managing employees by establishing annual performance goals, allocating resources, assessing annual performance, and determining individual merit, incentive and/or promotional increases.
• Managing the dissemination, interpretation and application of program policies and recommending or making exceptions.
• Performing other related work as needed.

Minimum qualifications include a college or university degree in a related field and 7+ years of work experience in a related job discipline. Preferred qualifications include a Masters in public policy, health services research, or a related field, background in health services research or university administration, and content and analytic expertise in health services research, health policy, health outcomes.

Application documents required include a resume/CV and cover letter.