Salary Range: $175,000 - $350,000
Benefits Information:
https://www.luc.edu/hr/benefits/Overall responsibilities include: recruiting, supervising, and mentoring departmental faculty members; encouraging professional development of faculty; supporting the successful training of graduate students; reviewing and assessing curriculum; developing and managing department goals and finances; promoting faculty’s involvement in graduate and medical education; acting as a department liaison to the university administration and to external agencies; securing and being a good steward of departmental resources; providing leadership in the pursuit of scholarly excellence (publications and grant funding) and fostering an environment which is conducive to collaboration, innovation, positive thinking and collegiality.
The chair will establish and implement a 5-year strategic plan for the department that is in alignment with the overall goals/mission of the Stritch School of Medicine and Loyola University of Chicago. This plan will include input from allied stakeholders within the Loyola Community.
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
TEACHING
- Ensure that the overall teaching mission of the department is met through teaching of graduate and medical students
- Actively participate in teaching, curriculum development, and ensuring the quality of the program
- Evaluate the viability of new programs/course requests
- Recommend/appoint course directors and the graduate program director
- Mentor faculty to establish and maintain an extramurally funded research program
- Assure the success of departmental seminar series and other departmental initiatives
RESEARCH
- Maintain an extramurally funded research program
- Help foster the successful development and maintenance of research within the department and in collaboration with those outside of the department
- Actively support student research programs of the university, including the medical student summer research program.
SERVICE
- Serve on university committee
- Actively participate in university activities such as interviewing faculty candidates and student applicants; SSOM/Health Sciences Campus Research Day
- Actively participate in activities that represent the university
ADMINISTRATIVE
- Assist in the recruitment of faculty and departmental staff
- Act as the first line of authority for faculty and staff
- Ensure that course directors, graduate program directors, and faculty are in compliance with academic policies and procedures
- Act as the second line of authority for student complaints and concerns that cannot first be resolved by the graduate program director
- Conduct annual evaluations of departmental faculty
- Plan and conduct faculty meetings
- Actively encourage and support professional development of faculty
- Provide guidance and leadership to develop and implement department and program goals
- Provide leadership and maintain a climate of open communication, collegiality and teamwork within the department
- Establish departmental committees as required
- Allocate departmental resources appropriately
- Comply with all departmental reporting requirements, including surveys for strategic planning and accreditations
- Provide expert and reliable counsel and guidance to the Dean on all issues related to the department, the Stritch School of Medicine and Loyola University Chicago.
About Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago (Loyola or LUC) is a private Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1870 by the Jesuits, Loyola is one of the largest Catholic universities in the United States. Loyola's professional schools include programs in medicine, nursing, and health sciences anchored by the Loyola University Medical Center.
Comprising eleven colleges and schools, Loyola offers over 80 undergraduate and 140 graduate/professional programs and enrolls approximately 16,000 students. Loyola has six campuses across the Chicago metropolitan area, as well as a campus in Rome and guest programs in Beijing and Ho Chi Minh City. The flagship Lake Shore Campus is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods of Chicago, eight miles north of the Loop.