Dean, College of Public Health and Health Professions

Job no: 541708
Work type: Tenure-Track Faculty
Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL)
Categories: Executive/Director/Management
Department:33010000 - HP-OFFICE OF THE DEAN

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

  • Maintain and enhance the stature of the College by ensuring that it continues to be at the forefront of research and in educating students who are prepared to be outstanding practitioners and leaders in public health and the health professions. 

  • Maintain high standards in faculty recruitment, appointment, promotion, and tenure in order to support excellence in research, teaching, and clinical practice in the professions supported by the College. 

  • Serve as a catalyst and advocate for innovative and impactful research. 

  • In collaboration with other UF and UF Health entities, create and implement exceptional and innovative programs of education, research, clinical practice, and service. 

  • Foster a student-centered culture that enhances effective teaching, engages students in faculty research, maintains a diverse and inclusive learning environment, builds strong relationships between students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and promotes leadership development. 

  • Maintain and enhance the financial health of the College through active representation with applicable state of Florida entities and raise the College’s visibility and obtain financial and other types of support from individuals, foundations, and corporations for initiatives, programmatic efforts, research, public service, faculty and student projects, student support, and discretionary activities. 

DESIRED OUTCOMES 

  • Develop, in partnership with others and in alignment with the University, a forward-looking strategic plan for the College. 

  • Grow the research output of the College and strengthen engagement with University of Florida and UF Health research elements. 

  • Enhance educational programs to continue to achieve exceptional learning. 

  • Enhance the College’s national reputation by growing and strengthening the research, clinical, and service enterprises. 

  • Attract top faculty and staff to further elevate the quality of the College, and ensure best-in-class hiring, retention, development, and engagement practices. 

 

The Dean, College of Public Health and Health Professions will be a proven academic leader with demonstrated ability to engage with faculty and staff to develop and execute a vision in support of the College’s broad educational, research, clinical, and public service missions. 

IDEAL EXPERIENCE  

Academic Leadership in a Multidisciplinary Setting 

  • Progressive executive management experience in a leading academic or multidisciplinary institution affiliated with public health and/or health professions.  Demonstrated ability to lead across the diverse disciplines represented in the College, and to integrate the College's contributions within a broader academic health center. 

Recruitment, Retention, and Development of Talent 

  • Demonstrated success recruiting, retaining, and developing outstanding cohorts of faculty, staff, and students across a range of disciplines and career stages.  Substantive experience leading faculty appointment, promotion, and tenure processes; building robust mentoring and professional development pathways; and supporting the engagement and advancement of all members of the College community. 

Research Enterprise Growth 

  • Proven ability to grow and sustain a high-performing research enterprise, including substantive experience competing for and managing NIH and other federal funding portfolios.  Demonstrated success developing interdisciplinary research programs, supporting early-career investigators, and leveraging shared resources to advance translational impact at scale.  

Fundraising 

  • Success generating resources through foundation grants, corporate partnerships, and philanthropic outreach. 

Personal Scholarship and Achievement 

  • An earned doctoral or terminal degree with achievements commensurate with appointment at the full Professor level in a discipline represented within the College, with a preference for a public health professional. 

CRITICAL LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES 

Strategic Vision 

Within a preeminent public university with a history of excellence and multidisciplinary collaboration, the successful candidate should be prepared to build on existing strengths of the College to create, develop, and expand initiatives and programs that will advance the College’s contributions by:  

  • Developing a clear vision and strategy consistent with the University of Florida and UF Health’s mission and best practices. 

  • Demonstrating a commitment to excellence in, and innovative approaches to, education, research, training, and service in the College’s mission areas. 

  •  Demonstrating commitment to interdisciplinary activities. 

  • Adapting strategies and goals to political realities and institutional constraints, engaging broadly and seeking to bring a range of opinions and approaches to solve systemic and emerging issues. ​  

Collaborating and Influencing 

The successful candidate will possess the ability to understand and thrive in a highly relationship- and consensus-driven organization, balancing competing needs to make the best strategic and tactical decisions for the College by: 

  • Possessing superior communication skills and the ability to connect with a variety of audiences; clear and effective written and oral presentation; and the experience, ability, and enthusiasm to be an energetic representative and spokesperson for the College. 

  • Maintaining effective liaisons with internal and external stakeholders.  

Leading People 

Within a large, complex academic setting, the next Dean will inspire, motivate, and direct the College’s senior leadership team, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders to their Dean’s individual team, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, and influencers throughout the organization.  The Dean will do this by: 

  •  Motivating and empowering direct reports and other team members to initiate and develop projects or strategic objectives. 

  • Providing vision, leadership, and management for the academic enterprise. 

  • Setting clear expectations and targets for scholastic and administrative contributions in collaboration with University of Florida and UF Health leaders, department chairs, and individual faculty members.​ 

FOR CANDIDATES 

The executive search firm Spencer Stuart has been retained to assist in this recruitment.  Chuck Jordan and Shannon Yeatman of Spencer Stuart are lead consultants on the search.  Inquiries, nominations, and applications are invited and should be submitted to search team member Ted Sorota via tsorota@spencerstuart.com.  Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. 

If accommodations due to a disability are needed to apply for this position, please call (352) 392-2477 or the Florida Relay System at (800) 955-8771 (TDD).  Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the United States.  Searches are conducted in accordance with Florida’s Sunshine Law.  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the University is committed to non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations, genetic information, and veteran status in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotion, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training. 

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