The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTCSOM) has initiated a nationwide search for an innovative and visionary leader to serve as its next Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. The Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs provides strategic leadership and oversight of all faculty-related matters at VTCSOM. Independently and in collaboration with other leaders, the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs role includes engagement with and/or oversight of faculty appointments, faculty recruitment and retention, career development, including promotion and tenure processes, faculty-related personnel matters, including annual performance evaluations, professional development programs, well-being efforts, and governance issues and policies.

The Associate Dean reports to the Dean of the VTCSOM and serves as a key advisor to the Dean. They will collaborate with department chairs, other decanal leaders, senior administrators, professional staff, and university and health system partners to advance VTCSOM's mission. This role is central to fostering a vibrant and supportive academic environment that promotes faculty excellence in teaching, research, clinical care, and service. VTCSOM has over 900 appointed faculty across ten clinical and two non-clinical academic departments. Faculty are employed by both Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic, the college’s health system partner, and include clinicians, teaching and research faculty, affiliated health professionals, and community physicians. Faculty at VTCSOM hold full-time faculty appointments with Virginia Tech and have a variety of ranks and tracks available to them. The Office of Faculty Affairs supports faculty in achieving their academic goals and providing quality education to learners at the health center. VTCSOM welcomes approximately 50-100 new faculty members each year, with continued expansion of the school expected to further increase this number.

This position is located at VTCSOM (https://medicine.vtc.vt.edu/), on the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) health sciences campus in Roanoke, Virginia., VTCSOM is a cornerstone of one of the nation’s premier health and biomedical research ecosystems. Located in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and 40 miles from the Virginia Tech main campus in Blacksburg, VTCSOM provides abundant opportunities to deliver innovative, discovery-based medical education in a community-based and picturesque setting.

Further information about the position may be viewed here, along with the process needed to apply: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/534859/associate-dean-faculty-affairs