Job Description:

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

Minimum Education and/or Work Experience:

Job Type: Full-Time

About Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago, a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, is one of the nation's largest Jesuit, Catholic Universities and the only one located in Chicago. Loyola University Chicago is comprised of four campuses: Lake Shore (LSC), Water Tower (WTC), Health Sciences (HSC), and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy, and is home to ten schools and colleges: arts and sciences, business administration, communication, education, graduate studies, law, medicine, nursing, continuing and professional studies, and social work. Loyola also features course locations in Beijing, China; Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Vernon Hills, Illinois (Cuneo Mansion and Gardens); and a Retreat and Ecology Campus in Woodstock, Illinois. Recognizing Loyola's excellence in education, U.S.News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" in its annual publications. Loyola is among a select group of universities recognized for community service and engagement by prestigious national organizations like the Carnegie Foundation and the Corporation for National and Community Service.

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