Vice Chair of Research, Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Family and Community Medicine, Clifton

Job Overview

The UC College of Medicine seeks a Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Family and Community Medicine. This role includes a faculty appointment and offers an academic rank commensurate with experience.

Essential Functions

• Maintain and grow a highly productive research operation and federally or state-funded grant portfolio with a national reputation.
• Assist the Chair in fostering an environment in the department that values and promotes diverse clinical, translational, practice-based, community and educational research and scholarship across all department missions and locations.
• Provide advocacy, oversight, support, direction, coaching, and development to the department’s research and scholarship efforts.
• Advise the Department Chair and Principal Investigators on research and scholarship priorities, funding opportunities, funding needs, recruitment, and infrastructure support for research and scholarship programs.
• Foster collaboration, innovation, and coordination of research and scholarship across all clinic and training sites, units across the university, and community organizations.
• Convene regular meetings with faculty and staff involved in department research activities.
• Plan and execute an ambitious strategy for growth in the department’s research vision.
• Engage in ongoing meetings to review the department’s research portfolio and make recommendations to the DFCM Chair for corrective actions needed to keep the research operation viable and solvent.
• Affiliate with university and hospital leaders to promote departmental research and scholarship initiatives.
• Serve as an alternative representative for the Chair on university and hospital committees relevant to research and scholarship activities.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior faculty members in defining and developing their research projects and directions.
• Support faculty to compete successfully for internal and external funding.

Minimum Requirements

• MD, DO, PhD, or equivalent.
• Federally funded research portfolio, current and/or past.
• Significant experience with mentorship.
• Evidence of experience in program/project leadership.
• Maintenance of a varied and sustained funding track record.
• Track record of success working with research teams.
• Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a collaborative faculty, staff, and student environment and the commitment to do so.

Additional Qualifications

• Direct experience leading research teams with a range of experience and interests.
• Experience in social and behavioral research and mixed methodologies and/or clinical trials.
• Experience providing oversight for organizational budget.
• Mastery coordinating multiple projects across a team of researchers.
• Recognized as a national thought leader in primary care.
• Established relationships with a network of primary care and multidisciplinary researchers.