Professor & Chair, Radiation Oncology

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Consistent with the core values of the institution, the Professor and Chair of a Department is responsible for the entrepreneurial growth, development, and quality of educational, scientific and clinical programs within the department and the organization at large. The Professor and Chair is also responsible for the overall leadership and management of the department consistent with guidelines set forth in the UTMB Handbook of Operating Procedures and the Board of Regents' Rules and Regulations. This oversight includes the appropriate and optimal use of human, financial, space and other resources to successfully manage the clinical, educational and research missions of the department in support of organizational goals and needs.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Clinical Mission: 

• Provides leadership over the institution‘s organizational structure driving department-related activities, including vice chairs, division directors, and medical directors, who aim to manage clinical program development, revenue growth, expense management, and operational efficiencies that work to support the organization’s clinical program needs.
• Ensures that clinical faculty and staff accept responsibility and perform duties in a timely and efficient manner, utilizing clinical resources to produce good patient outcomes as measured by both accepted standards of practice and by patient satisfaction surveys, whether inpatient or clinic patients. 
•  Partners with health system colleagues to support goals and activities driving growth, revenue, quality, and cost control.
• Responsible for ensuring the compliance of all area specific clinical activities with federal, state, institutional, and accreditation-related policies
• Research Mission: 
• Provides incentive and mentoring for faculty, residents, fellows and students in order to encourage and support scholarship and research.
• Supports research within the department as well as collaborative efforts with other programs in the university community.
• Encourages, facilitates, and supports all efforts to acquire research funding. Educational Mission:
• Assures that high quality education programs are provided for postgraduate physician trainees within the department, as well as medical and other health profession students who rotate through the department; e.g., medical students, allied health students and nursing students. This responsibility extends to all outreach education programs.
• Performs related duties as assigned. Core Competencies/ Leadership Qualifications:
• An understanding of the issues in today's academic healthcare environment, including the integration of clinical, education, and research initiatives. 
•  Strategic, problem solving orientation and superior planning, organizational and financial management skills are critical.
• Proven ability to define issues, strategically plan options and define solutions; implement changes within targeted timeframes.
• Proven ability to recruit like-minded exceptional talent as required to support departmental, health system, and organizational needs and priorities. 
•  An understanding of current and evolving systems within the healthcare industry.
• Must understand and have some experience with the following key issues: the educational process, faculty development and governance, managing fiscal resources, the research process, and patient care, coordination of diverse groups with competing interests, arbitration and group process skills.
• Must have research competence and experience with scientific method.
• Ability to organize and evaluate teaching and research programs.
• Ability to write scientific and fiscal proposals and to manage fiscal resources. 
•  Ability to evaluate student's potential and performance. 
•  Ability to evaluate faculty potential and performance.
• Demonstrated record of leadership ability and accomplishment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including a high degree of professionalism and competence in dealing with a variety of individuals. 
•  Strong interpersonal skills with experience managing a large number of programs.
• Familiarity with information systems, regulatory compliance issues and business operations, particularly for academic environment as well as the healthcare environment. Personal Characteristics: 
•  Relates well to people at all levels in the organization and develops strong positive relationships based on trust.
• Someone who is energetic, genuine, enjoys working with people at all levels of the organization, and has a good sense of humor.
• Must have knowledge of, strongly support, and personal believe in the Mission and Values of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. 
•  Has a strong customer focus and operates with a positive "can-do" philosophy. 
•  Someone who has the highest level of honesty and integrity.
• Someone who is energized by educating and servicing, inspiring and/or mentoring students, faculty, and staff across all operational areas of the organization.
• Strong communication skills are necessary, particularly verbal and listening communication skills; candidates must be articulate and able to provide fresh, creative ideas and solutions.
• Must have strong organizational, budgeting and financial skills with the ability to give appropriate attention to detail and follow-through.
• Self confident, mature, personable, and diplomatic.
• Is politically astute, loyal and an advocate for the area in which they manage.
• Possesses excellent persuasion skills, including the ability to clearly convey business and financial issues to faculty and ability to "say no," constructively and respectfully; an acute and careful listener.
•  Is flexible, has a tolerance for ambiguity and is not easily frustrated; understands that success is often achieved through incremental steps. 
•  An ability to understand and work in matrix structures, particularly academic medical centers and all related operational units within

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• MD or MD, Ph.D., be board certified specialty field and either licensed or eligible for medical licensure in Texas. (Clinical)
• Ph.D (or equivalent) in related field. (Basic Sciences) 
•  Demonstrated familiarity with academic administration in specialty field.
• Demonstrated comprehensive understanding of a medical school/hospital environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain collegial relationships with peers, faculty, departmental staff, hospital administration, residents and students.
• A commitment to diversity, and a demonstrated ability to value the contributions of ethnic minorities and women to the clinical and academic enterprise. 
•  Familiarity with the process of scientific inquiry and factors that support this growth of research within an academic environment including the securing of research funds.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• MD and/or PhD degree and eight to ten years of related experience in a complex academic medical center

SALARY:
Commensurate with experience