Physician - Associate Chief of Staff-Research & Development

About the role

The VA Fargo Healthcare System is recruiting (1) Physician - Associate Chief of Staff - Research & Development in Fargo, ND. The Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development (ACOS/R&D) is a Physician in an Executive Career Field position and reports to the Fargo Health Care System Director through the Chief of Staff. The ACOS performs research projects, manages the research program, and is a principal investigator.

Duties

• Works in the outpatient setting at the Fargo VAHCS primary care, specialty care as otherwise specified based on the unique skills of the candidate and needs of the facility.
• Manages the research program and provides advisory, planning, reviewing or investigative services on specific problems, project programs, and functions.
• Evaluates proposed or continuing research or clinical work against specified goals, objectives while providing technical and administrative advice, as well as recommendations for area of improvement.
• Interprets, applies guidelines, assesses program/proposal effectiveness by analyzing, resolving difficult, and complex problems.
• Isolates and defines unknown conditions, resolves critical problems, and develops new theories.
• Affords expertise and leadership to the Office of Research Administration by furnishing advisory, planning, reviewing or investigative services on specific problems, project programs, and functions.
• Serves as a supervisory role in the Research and Development service at Fargo VA HCS.

Qualifications

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Completed residency training in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification.
• Non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of three years of verified independent practice in the United States.
• Residents currently enrolled in ACGME/AOA accredited residency training programs and who would otherwise meet the basic requirements for appointment are eligible to be appointed as "Physician Resident Providers" (PRPs).

Pay and Benefits

• Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
• 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance
• Health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
• No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm