Careers @ MSU

The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine’s Office of Academic Affairs invites applications for the Community Assistant Dean of the Flint Community Campus. The college was one of the first community based medical schools in the nation and conducts its clinical training for third and fourth-year students throughout the state in eight communities - Lansing, Flint, Grand Rapids, Midland, Detroit, Southeast Michigan, Traverse City, and the Upper Peninsula - fulfilling its mission of serving the people of Michigan. The Community Assistant Dean role is the chief academic officer for the community campus and is responsible for developing and maintaining collegial educational partnerships with local and regional health systems. The Community Assistant Dean will administer the medical student education program, manage the community campus team, assure compliance with accreditation requirements, advise students in career and professional development, recruit and support community faculty, work toward advancing inclusion and diversity and responding to the needs of the underserved, and develop community resources to support the undergraduate medical program.

The Community Assistant Dean is specifically responsible, within their campus, for:

• Administering, directing, and coordinating the medical student education program as consistent with the academic policies of the college and university.
• Responsible for assuring compliance with accreditation requirements, completing information requests as part of the continuing accreditation process and participating as appropriate in accreditation preparation and site visits.
• Advising students in career and professional development in both group and individual settings.
• Preparation of the Medical Student Performance Evaluation for submission with student application for residency programs.
• Administering, directing, and coordinating programs and activities designed to facilitate and support medical students.
• Implementing college policies for student and program evaluation and review.
• Implementing the department, college, university policies for community faculty recruitment, appointment, review, promotion, and retention.
• Representing the college and facilitating inter-community communication and developing cooperative relationships among campuses, faculty, and programs, to support the undergraduate medical education program.
• Identifying and developing community resources to support the undergraduate medical program, including developing and maintaining collegial educational partnerships with local and regional health systems.
• Developing and implementing programs to enhance the educational resources of the community-based faculty.
• Facilitating the development and/or maintenance of university-community relationships in graduate medical education to support the undergraduate medical education program.
• Supervising, and directing the administrative staff and faculty including Clerkship Directors, Director of Student Programs, Community Outreach Program Specialist, and faculty of the community who are charged with the implementation of college academic policies.
• Participating in college administrative and faculty committees that are charged with the development and/or implementation of academic policies.
• Administering, directing, and coordinating the financial resources from the college in a responsible and fiscally-sound manner.
• Representing the college in creating research-related activities and appropriate clinical and community partnerships.
• Collaborating with directors of certificate programs in the community to integrate required academic programs with certificate activities.
• Supporting the work of the college external relations department in fostering engagement with local and regional community organizations.

As an institution of higher learning, Michigan State University is committed to providing a safe environment for its students, faculty, and staff in support of its educational mission. With this commitment, the University conducts criminal background checks and professional misconduct reviews of all applicants for employment in faculty, academic staff, and executive management searches. 

Professional Misconduct Review 

A professional misconduct review is a prerequisite for a candidate to be selected for this position. Applicants will be asked to disclose whether they are subject to any pending investigation, findings or sanctions related to professional misconduct. Professional misconduct includes misconduct related to a person’s employment, including, but not limited to, theft, embezzlement, research integrity, discrimination, or harassment under civil rights laws and policies, including protected identity harassment, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct (sexual assault, sexual exploitation, dating violence, domestic violence, stalking, etc.), and retaliation. All applicants will be asked to sign an authorization and release, which authorizes the University to contact the candidate’s current and former employers, for a period of 7 years prior to the date of application, related to any pending investigations, findings of responsibility and/or sanctions related to professional misconduct. Nothing will be sent to current or former employers unless the candidate reaches the semi-finalist stage. 

The existence of professional misconduct history does not automatically exclude a candidate from employment. The University will assess the history, including any information provided by the candidate, in determining whether it is compatible with the position. The University may decline to hire a candidate based on the professional misconduct review. All records obtained from external employers will be kept in a secure location, separate from personnel files. If an applicant fails to sign the authorization and release, the application will be deemed incomplete and will be withdrawn.  

• Experience working within medical education;
• demonstrated dedication to student success and effectiveness working with students at a variety of performance levels; collaborative approach to academic governance;
• and experience working with faculty teams.
• The successful candidate will also bring initiative, creativity, and the capacity to develop rapport with students, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds.