Director of Finance and Administration

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UNC
-Chapel Hill offers full-time employees a comprehensive benefits package
, paid leave, and a variety of health, life and retirement plans and additional programs that support a healthy work/life balance.

The UNC Department of Cell Biology and Physiology is an interdisciplinary basic science department in the School of Medicine. The department brings together strong traditions of excellence in basic science, translational research, and in pre- and post-doctoral training, including undergraduate, graduate and medical education. The department currently houses a PhD program, the Cell Biology and Physiology Curriculum and a MS program, the Master’s Program in Cell Biology and Physiology.

Our interdisciplinary, interdepartmental curricula provide a cohesive biological foundation based on scientific rigor, transparency, integrity, and creative scientific reasoning, helping nurture the minds and curiosities of the next generation of scientists.
The Department of Cell Biology and Physiology conducts cutting-edge, innovative research, with an emphasis on topics that contribute to the improvement of human health. The Department is one of the largest physiology units in the nation, and consistently ranked in the top 5 in the nation for NIH funding. Our vision is to ensure our continued success and recognition as one of the nation’s leading Departments of Cell Biology and Physiology by achieving excellence in our discipline through Leading, Teaching and Caring.

We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability.
OUR MISSION
We prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees to create an ethical, rigorous, and highly skilled workforce. We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research.

We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service and in this way, strive towards our goal of improving the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve.

The Director of Finance and Administration in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology partners with the Chair to develop a strategic vision to lead the Department to stellar performance in all missions: teaching, research, and service to the State, and ensures departmental resource allocation in support of strategic priorities.
This position is responsible for the implementation of systems and initiatives influencing financial planning and management, operations management, human resource management, sponsored research management, information systems design and delivery, strategic leadership and governance, and professional and ethical responsibilities on behalf of the Chair of the Department. These activities are very complex, demanding and very detailed. The Director of Finance and Administration assumes substantial independent senior administrative authority in the Chair’s Office for leadership and innovative direction for the Department’s policy…