Chair, Department of Clinical and Administrative Sciences

Academic Career & Executive Search is pleased to assist Larkin University in its search for Chair, Department of Clinical and Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Larkin University (LU), a private, nonprofit institution solely focused on health sciences, is recruiting its next Chair of the Department of Clinical and Administrative Sciences in the College of Pharmacy (COP) to lead and help shape the continued growth of the Department. This is a high-impact leadership role within a fully accredited (ACPE) program, with broad influence across faculty development, curriculum, research and scholarship, experiential education, clinical practice, and external partnerships.

The Chair will work closely with senior academic leadership and have a visible role in advancing the direction of the Department and College.

Reporting directly to the Dean and serving on the College of Pharmacy leadership team, the Chair will lead and mentor faculty across clinical pharmacy practice and the social and administrative sciences. The position offers considerable flexibility to maintain engagement in research, clinical practice, and teaching, with protected clinical and/or research time, flexibility in teaching load, internal funding opportunities, and administrative support.

Founded in 2013, Larkin University located in South Florida, serves the Miami/Fort Lauderdale region. The University continues to expand its academic enterprise while strengthening research and scholarship across the health sciences. Accredited by SACSCOC to award master’s and doctoral degrees, LU includes the College of Pharmacy, College of Biomedical Sciences, School of Physician Assistant Studies, and School of Dental Medicine, creating opportunities for interprofessional education and collaboration.

The College of Pharmacy offers a fully accredited, integrated three-year Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program.

• Work in partnership with the Dean’s leadership team, including Assistant Deans, the other Department Chair, and Directors, to ensure programmatic advancement, experiential training, excellence in teaching, curricular development, assessment, quality research and scholarship, and the expansion of clinical practice.
• Manage Department personnel activities and ensure implementation of processes and policies.
• Assign teaching responsibilities and oversee the development and delivery of instructional activities of faculty with a focus on active learning and critical thinking.
• Maintain an active research program and seek extramural funding.
• Mentor and support the development of faculty to develop and maintain active research programs; promote scholarly activities within and outside the Department; and promote innovation and scholarly activities of practice faculty members at their pharmacy practice sites.
• Work with the Office of Professional Affairs to meet the experiential needs of students and the curriculum.
• Facilitate the development of pharmacy practice sites for faculty in collaboration with the Assistant Dean for Practice and Professional Affairs and external strategic partners.
• In consultation with Department faculty, recruit and recommend to the Dean new faculty for appointment.
• Conduct annual performance evaluations within the Department and oversee Department review of applicants for promotion and/or long-term contracts.
• Prepare annual budget requests and make recommendations to the Dean regarding the expenditure of other funds available to the College.
• Represent the Department to external institutions, organizations, and agencies in building academic partnerships.
• Serve on the leadership team of the College of Pharmacy and support strategic initiatives of the institution.

• A PharmD or PhD…