Employment Type: Permanent Staff (EHRA NF) Vacancy ID: NF0008840 Position Summary/Description: The Associate Chair for Administration ( ACA ) partners with the Chair in the Department of Neurosurgery to develop and execute on a strategic vision and to lead the Department across the clinical care, education, research, and service missions. The ACA ensures departmental resource allocation in support of strategic priorities, with a focus on school and system alignment. The Associate Chair assumes substantial independent senior administrative authority in the Chair’s Office with responsibility for the Department’s policy development, oversight of human resources and financial management, and implementation of systems and resource management to advance the stated goals. The Associate Chair serves several primary functions for the department. The Associate Chair is a member of the senior management team of the Department and directs all non-medical activities for the Department. In this role, the Associate Chair is a full partner with the Chair in internal Departmental activities and as the liaison to the Health Care System and University at large. The Associate Chair also serves as the Departmental representative to a large number of other external groups and individuals, including referring physicians, contract physicians and agencies, peer institutions, third-party payers, managed care companies, and vendors. The Chair and the Associate Chair work hand-in-hand to set the direction and determine the strategic priorities of the Department to assure that the Department’s mission is achieved. The ACA has primary responsibility for: 1. Financial Planning, Development, and Management 2. Clinical and Business Operations Management 3. Human Resources Management 4. Sponsored Programs Management 5. Planning and Marketing 6. Governance and Oversight. The Department of Neurosurgery provides advanced neurosurgery services in Chapel Hill for adult and pediatric patients, offering surgical expertise in brain and skull base tumors, spinal neurosurgery, functional neurosurgery, pediatric neurosurgery, and cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery. The Department of Neurosurgery is committed to the principles of leading, teaching, and caring. Our multidisciplinary team offers treatment for many subspecialty disciplines, working closely with specialists from other departments such as neurology, oncology, otolaryngology, radiology and radiation oncology. Our neurosurgery services include treatment for aneurysms and cerebrovascular disease, brain tumor treatment, epilepsy surgery, treatment for spine and head trauma, hydrocephalus treatment, and pituitary tumor treatment. We also specialize in skull base surgery, spinal neurosurgery, pediatric neurosurgery, and deep brain stimulation surgery. The Department of Neurosurgery has a long history of excellence in clinical care, education, and research across the translational spectrum. The UNC Neurosurgery Residency Training Program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education ( ACGME ). We currently offer a seven-year program and accept two residents per year. The Department of Neurosurgery’s faculty and staff consists of 10 neurosurgeons, two neuro-oncologists, one neurosurgical oncologist, one PhD, and one physiatrist. We are also one of the very few neurosurgery programs to have a full-time medical illustrator. Education and Experience: Candidates should have experience as a senior manager in a medical practice or other health care organization, ideally in an academic medical center. Essential Skills: The Associate Chair must possess superior verbal and written communication skills, excellent interpersonal behaviors, and the capacity to inspire confidence in his or her reasoning and decision-making. The successful Associate Chair will be an experienced, intuitive, creative, and dynamic leader with superior interpersonal and problem-solving skills. The Associate Chair will have well-developed attributes of professionalism, leadership, communication, presentation abilities, superior organizational skills, as well as analytic expertise. Critical skills and knowledge required are focused but not limited to the following areas: program development and growth, strategic planning, customer service, patient/physician/staff satisfaction, quality improvement, marketing, public relations, physician recruitment, public speaking, financial management, operational leadership, and human resource management. AA/EEO Statement: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.