Faculty Affairs Manager

Overview

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Job Category:
Academic Staff

Employment Type:

Regular
Job Profile:
Academic Program Manager

The Faculty Affairs Manager position is a great opportunity to work in a collaborative office focused on providing professional development and support to faculty at the School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH). This new position leads the development, implementation, and ongoing operations of faculty performance monitoring to ensure effective compliance of SMPH with UW and state requirements for faculty instructional workload.

Additionally, this position focuses on identifying exceptional faculty performance and fosters collaboration across units and departments to standardize the annual review process for faculty across SMPH using best practices. The work may require managing related communications and outreach activities with internal and external SMPH stakeholders. The Faculty Affairs Manager strives to ensure transparency and accuracy of data management as well as a dedication to leveraging insights from data to address organizational strategic goals.

The Faculty Affairs Manager will need thorough knowledge, skills and experience in three key areas:
Data tracking and management, effective communication and problem solving. Knowledge and experience of applying state, institutional, school and department/unit faculty policies and processes for tracking of annual reviews, instructional workload and faculty data is an advantage.

Key job responsibilities:

Faculty Statutory and Regulatory Requirements Monitoring

• Comply with UW, state and regulatory requirements e.g. instructional workload
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and maintain an instructional workload tracking system
• Periodic gathering of instructional workload and other faculty data including related administrative tasks
• Generate annual compliance reports
• Communicate with various stakeholders across the institution, school, and departments/units
• Schedule meetings with stakeholders and manage follow-up

Annual Review and Key Performance Indicators

• Identify best practices for annual review processes from peer institutions etc.
• Develop a standardized annual review process and system in collaboration with stakeholders across SMPH
• Provide ongoing monitoring and messaging for annual review process

Benchmarking

• Recognize and record metrics of exceptional faculty performance
• Identify faculty performance benchmarking

• This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

• Leads the development and implementation of academic program initiatives
• Evaluates existing academic program strategy and makes recommendations to unit leadership for program enhancement
• Assists stakeholders with preparing and/or maintaining documentation, financial management, and/or reporting requirements related to sponsored grants, contracts, or agreements
• Identifies, proposes, and implements new or revised unit operational policies and procedures to comply with regulations, institutional policies, and academic program objectives
• Collaborates to establish academic program initiatives for guidelines and procedures for benchmarking and recognition of faculty performance

Department:

School of Medicine and Public Health, Office of Faculty Affairs and Development

Our Office of Faculty Affairs and Development is expanding, and we are eager to welcome a Faculty Affairs Manager to join our collaborative team. Our office provides resources to support the academic and professional development of approximately 2,000 faculty members at SMPH, as well as, the clinical adjunct faculty across the state. Our vision is that all faculty in the school will have the resources and relationships they need to thrive professionally and to fulfill our school s mission.

We provide workshops, a newsletter, support and collaborations aimed at enhancing faculty engagement, satisfaction, retention and…