Open Rank Clinician Educator of Family and Community Medicine - req# 33731

The University of New Mexico,School of Medicine, Department of Family & Community Medicine seeks aqualified and dynamic Executive Director of Community Engagement within theOffice of Community Health.

OCH is seeking a strategic leader with a strong health equityperspective, deep roots in community engagement, and long-standing experiencecollaborating with a wide range of community partners. This leader will oversee and act as a catalystfor the co-development of effective community-university partnerships that canwork together to concretely improve the health of communities across NewMexico. In addition, this position willprovide guiding leadership to key strategies of the OCH, including HealthExtension Regional Offices (HEROs) and Community Health Workers orRepresentatives (CHW/Rs) and the development and diffusion of innovation, aswell as to provide leadership to all community-facing initiatives withinOCH. This position will serve as a keymember of the Executive Leadership Team serving the Vice President forCommunity Health, including advisors/consultants and the leads of Operations,Research & Evaluation, and Human Resources & Administration.

The successful candidate must have a deep experience in strategies forinstitutional change, bolstering adaptive resolve, bridging administrative,college and programmatic silos and overcoming territorial and ego-drivenbarriers to needed change. This candidatemust promote a bottom-up approach, fostering servant leadership with a constantreference to all OCH components addressing Social Drivers of Health. This leader will work directly with theAssociate Vice President for Community Health on developing a plan for HealthExtension Hub development across the state, and in County and Tribalcommunities and will oversee director-level health extension officers includingperiodic visits to outposted sites to build better, mutually-supportivealliance and to address needs first hand. This strategic leader will also act as a bridge between community needsand resources of the Health Sciences Center to relevant main campus collegesand schools (Law, Architecture, Engineering, Arts & Sciences, Education,etc), as well as lead communication and promotion about these initiatives,meeting with funders and policy-makers, and creating a clear communication planfor continued expansion of health extension.

What We Are Known For

• Our commitment to caring for underserved and vulnerable populations.
• Ranked #2 US News and World Report for Most Graduates Practicing inMedically Underserved Areas (2023-2024)
• Our clinical care and curriculum innovations advance the health of allNew Mexicans across the lifespan.
• Our dedication to advancing scholarly inquiry and research in primarycare to meet the needs of New Mexicans and beyond with over $33 million inextramural research funding.
• Our ability to inspire and train the next generation of familyphysician clinicians, educators, scholars, and leaders
• Ranked #7 US News and World Report national ranking of top FamilyMedicine Programs (2022)
• Approximately half of the UNM Health Sciences Center leadership arefamily Physicians (most of whom are graduates of the UNM Family Medicine ResidencyProgram)

Family-Based Clinical Care

In the clinical area, the new faculty member will provide primary careto a panel of patients at one of our Family Medicine clinics in aPatient-Centered Medical Home model and will have the opportunity to superviseresidents in this clinical setting.

Family Medicine faculty provide care in the Maternal Child Healthservice (a Family Medicine obstetric service), the Family Medicine InpatientService, which provides care to adult and pediatric patients, the NewbornNursery, and the Intermediate Care Nursery. In this position, new faculty will provide service and superviseresidents on one or two teaching services as part of their job duties.

Innovative Education

We are nationally and internationally known for educational innovation. Our department's areas of academicexpertise include the social determinants of health, community health andengagement, culturally effective care, addiction medicine, and point-of-careultrasound. Our faculty are majorcontributors to the education of medical and PA students at UNM, and ourresidency program provides opportunities for rotations in rural and underservedsettings as well as UNM rotations.

• We have several Fellowships, including Maternal Child Health, SportsMedicine, and Addiction Medicine.
• We boast a large number of residents practicing in New Mexico
• We host a 3rd year Family Medicine clerkship for all medical students
• We are the departmental home of the UNM Physician Assistant Program

About Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM, is a beautiful city with the Sandia Mountains to theeast and the Mesa to the west. At morethan a mile-high elevation, this high desert environment provides gorgeoussunny days and the variety of all four seasons. It is ideal for outdoor activities and sports all year round, includingrunning, hiking, biking, and skiing. Albuquerque is 1 hour from Santa Fe, NM,and 2.5 hours from Taos, NM, both world famous for their art and culture. TheState of New Mexico is multicultural and diverse, with 19 indigenous nativepueblos, the Navajo Nation, and three Apache tribal lands. We have excellentlocal cuisine, breathtaking sunsets, numerous cultural and historic sites,lakes, rivers, deserts, and mountains.

Salary: salary and rank commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Foster health extension hub development through building strategicnetworks and partnerships to address local priorities, aiming for a Hub inevery County and every interested Tribal Community that includescommunity-based "partner HEROs", community health workers, andlearners/trainees.
• Identification and facilitation of collaboration betweenpartners in the region including local health and educational systems, healthcouncils, behavioral health collaboratives, county public health offices,Community Extension Service agents, community colleges, and school-basedclinics.
• Build capacity for community organization and strategic partnershipsthrough trainings and support of community partnerships to build communitycapacity.
• Share knowledge and information with local legislators andconstituents including the HSC. Bi-directional linking to shared resources,technical assistance for diffusion of innovations from the university to thecommunity, supporting health pipeline and health workforce development,facilitation and coaching for collaboration and capacity building, and advocacyand informing policy.
• Develops and/or advises on strategies designed to raise the generallevel of consciousness within the community and among potential funding sourcesof the University's capacities and offerings as they relate to community healthimprovement.
• Ensures internal and external messages are consistent, engagingand aligned with the mission, goals and objectives of OCH. Serves as conduit ofinformation for the HSC about community issues; articulates the position of theHSC and the various communities, as well as serves as a source of informationabout community concerns; as appropriate, suggests and advocates for changes tothe University's policies and positions to address priority community concernsand needs.
• Works with HSC Public Affairs to develop and coordinate efforts toimprove communications with the community. Managerial oversight and guidance tostaff responsible for conveying OCH’s internal and external messages andfacilitate outreach and marketing activities (drafting written materials forinternal distribution; marketing, media reports and press releases; training HEROsacross the State in public health messaging, in working with local media todisseminate their stories.
• Provides integrated identification, research, planning, evaluation andleadership in the development of strategic initiatives, programs, and servicesfor OCH; strives to ensure integration of mission areas of the HSC (education,clinical service, research and policy) within each initiative and to identifyand maintain partnerships to ensure sustainability of these initiatives.Spearheads monitoring and eval of progress in health equity and socialdeterminants of health across NM.
• Engages in meaningful and collaborative relationships with seniorleadership, administrators, funding entities, government/agency officialswithin the community with the aim of creating long-lasting partnerships forcommunity health improvement. Represents and promotes development of strategicinitiatives with these partners when appropriate.
• Serves as a key member of the OCH leadership team, facilitatinginterdisciplinary collaborative efforts between OCH programs, other universitycommunity-engaged programs, and community partners; provides consultation andadvisement on advancement of OCH strategic plan.
• Works closely with financial analyst in the development and managementof all operating budgets for community-facing initiatives; oversees, monitors,and coordinates all unrestricted funding streams and funds aimed atdisbursement within the greater community

Minimum Requirements:

• Medical Doctor or Doctor of Osteopathy
• Board eligible/certified in Family Medicine by the ABFM or AOA
• Eligible for medical licensure in NM
• Eligible for State of New Mexico Board of Pharmacy certification and federal DEA registration
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of leadership experience directly related to community health, health extension, or a related field.
• Experience working in or serving rural and/or underserved communities; experience in community organizing, experience in innovative program development
• Experience teaching residents, medical and/or other health science students
• Bilingual in either Spanish or a Native language
• Willing to travel frequently across the state and to national and international convenings
• Demonstrated ability to determine priority community health needs, collect and analyze information, and devise and develop statistical analysis and reports
• Demonstrated experience working with local health organizations (health councils, Tribal communities, community hospitals, community colleges, NM DOH, CDC, I.H.S., etc.)
• Demonstrated experience working in close collaboration with leadership to provide strategic insight and planning for the department.
• Contract and grant writing and implementation experience
• Demonstrated experience in developing and presenting material to a variety of individuals and/or groups
• A demonstrated commitment to cultivate an understanding of the rich and varied cultures of New Mexico and to the success of the university’s mission to serve local and global communities.

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Please attach a Cover Letter and CV. For assistance with the application process, contact FCM-HR@salud.unm.edu.

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