JOB DESCRIPTION
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, a leading academic health center, invites applications for a full-time (1.0 FTE) faculty position in the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology. The selected candidate will contribute to the department’s multidisciplinary approaches in the broad areas of chemical, systems, and synthetic biology, and/or the metabolism of human diseases.
Position Key Accountabilities:
Responsibilities include leveraging artificial intelligence and deep learning models to analyze complex biological networks and advanced molecular design for biomedical applications, including therapeutic development.
- Developing and sustaining an environment that supports excellence and innovation in research through assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and standards that support positive outcomes, including excellent risk-adjusted outcomes.
- Performing a variety of staff management functions, including interviewing, hiring, evaluating, counseling, and terminating assigned management, clinical, and support staff.
- Facilitating, reviewing, and approving the budget for UTHealth Houston, including estimates of future personnel and equipment needs; ensuring that resources are optimally utilized through participation in strategic planning and financial budgeting processes, and development of practices that achieve specific objectives and resolution of unfavorable performance variances; providing leadership and implementing strategies to provide cost-effective quality research.
- Providing coaching, mentoring, support, and consultation to managers, research personnel, colleagues, and staff.
- Serving as a role model in professional behavior and leadership skills, problem-solving ability, and interpersonal skills.
- Delegating authority and accountability to staff that is consistent with professional standards, regulatory agencies, and organizational policies and procedures.
- Collaborating with UTHealth Houston and administration to identify future opportunities and define the direction of department services, developing and implementing plans to achieve identified goals.
- Maintaining an ongoing departmental Quality Improvement Plan and process consistent with the organizational Quality Management Plan; developing and implementing unit-specific standards, policies, and procedures that guide and support the provision of services; continuously assessing and improving assigned departments' performance while enhancing service.
- Reviewing relevant financial reports and implementing modifications at UTHealth Houston to cut costs related to supplies, staffing, and service agreements, or identifying viable alternatives for purchasing equipment and supplies.
- Participating in and/or chairing committees, work groups, and meetings as appropriate.
- Assuring interdisciplinary performance improvement programs are active, maintained, and ongoing. Following up to ensure that complaints have been satisfactorily handled. Collaborating to maintain a focus on providing excellent research services.
Qualifications:
The selected candidate for the position must have a Ph.D.
Qualified applicants must demonstrate a commitment to excellence, discovery, and service, have the potential to be outstanding in their field of expertise, and share an interest in fulfilling the common goals of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Preferred applicants will possess substantial extramural funding and teaching/mentoring experience.
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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
Established in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) is Houston’s Health University and Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery and excellence in patient care. The most comprehensive academic health center in the UT System and the U.S. Gulf Coast region, UTHealth Houston is home to schools of biomedical informatics, biomedical sciences, dentistry, nursing and public health and the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston includes The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, as well as the growing clinical practices UT Physicians, UT Dentists and UT Health Services. The university’s primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.
UTHealth Houston Benefits
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