• Job Description

  Req#: 259588

  Department

  Med Ad Commitments-420101

  Career Area

  Other

  Posting Open Date

  10/26/2022

  Application Deadline

  06/29/2023

  Open Until Filled

  No

  Position Type

  Permanent Staff (EHRA NF)

  Working Title

  Assistant Director

  Appointment Type

  EHRA Non-Faculty

  Position Number

  01004356

  Vacancy ID

  NF0006393

  Full Time/Part Time

  Full-Time Permanent

  FTE

  1

  Hours per week

  40

  Position Location

  North Carolina, US

  Hiring Range

  Dependent on qualifications and experience.

  Proposed Start Date

  05/15/2023

  Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit

  The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.
  
  
  
  OUR VISION
  Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
  OUR MISSION
  Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
  Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
  Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
  Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

  Position Summary

  This position will have substantial responsibility for formulating, interpreting, and implementing contracts, policies and processes specific to external professional activities for pay and vendor relations and UNC School of Medicine’s (SOM) extensive contract portfolio. Position will be responsible for ensuring and overseeing compliance with state and federal laws and regulations for SOM’s primary contract and policy review office. Position manages multiple programmatic efforts and duties in the School of Medicine in this regard while simultaneously serving as a resource and liaison to the Dean’s Office for strategic planning and providing expertise in high value, high risk contracts and related general legal matters. The position drafts complex, time-sensitive contracts between the SOM and external agencies under the direction and supervision of Director and University Counsel. The position will also oversee School of Medicine’s Policy program for twenty-two departments within the SOM. Position assists Director in supervising a team of contracts management personnel.
  
  The Office of Professional Service Contracts and Affiliations (OPSCA) is an administrative organization within the School of Medicine and is under the purview of Med Administration. Protecting the interest and integrity of the School and the University is an integral part of the OPSCA mission in its efforts to provide a viable and time-sensitive administrative service to the School’s clinical departments as well as other administrative units for their professional service contracts and student affiliation agreements. The School of Medicine is the largest single academic unit in the University. The School initiates on average approximately 80% of all contractual activity associated with faculty and or staff services as well as student rotations. It is the only School on campus that has authorization to provide final University signature for professional service contracts and other designated legal documents on behalf of the Dean, the Chancellor’s designated university official for the majority of the School’s contractual agreements. Consistent with SOM’s mission to provide leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research, the Office of Professional Service Contracts and Affiliations performs all administrative, budgetary, legal and regulatory processing of contractual agreements and student affiliation agreements. OPSCA also oversees policy review for the School of Medicine, including all aspects of the policy process: identification, generation, creation, review, interpretation and life-cycle management.
  
  The Assistant Director is an integral part of OPSCA, and assists the Director in managing the office in regular consultation with other key partners, including Health Care System (HCS) partners, external parties, attorneys, and administrators. The Assistant Director position is responsible for overseeing the Policy Program under the Director’s guidance, and will also handle complex agreements, compliance initiatives, and other duties as may be assigned in support of OPSCA’s expansive portfolio.

  Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

  Relevant post-Baccalaureate degree required (or foreign degree equivalent); for candidates demonstrating comparable independent research productivity or professional-level background in sponsored research administration, will accept a relevant Bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) and 3 or more years of relevant experience in substitution.

  Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience

  Minimum of 5 years of directly related and progressive experience.

  Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience

  Two to Five years’ experience in counsel role to senior-level administrators in an academic institution. Experience in the development and implementation of system wide compliance initiatives. Experience in external professional activities for pay and vendor relations.

  Campus Security Authority Responsibilities

  Not Applicable.

  Quick Link

  https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/242956

  Department Contact Name and Title

  Claudia Smith, HR Consultant

  Department Contact Telephone or Email

  claudia_smith@med.unc.edu

  Office of Human Resources Contact Information

  If you experience any problems accessing the system or have questions about the application process, please contact the Office of Human Resources at (919) 843-2300 or send an email to employment@unc.edu
  Please note: The Office of Human Resources will not be able to provide specific updates regarding position or application status.

• About the company

  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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