The College of Medicine’s (CMED) executive director for faculty and staff employment services is a highly visible executive/leadership role responsible for coordinating and facilitating faculty affairs and human resource activities for CMED in collaboration with CMU’s Human Resources and Faculty Personnel Services offices. The executive director provides leadership and guidance regarding faculty and staff human resource matters and faculty affairs within CMED to ensure adherence with evolving accrediting and licensing bodies, federal and state law where appropriate, and CMU policies and practices. The position is responsible for interpreting rules and regulations, often applying sound judgment without the benefit of specific policy or precedent. These services relate to a broad spectrum of employees including tenured, tenure track and non\-tenure track faculty, volunteer faculty, external partner faculty, professional and administrative staff, union employees, student employees, graduate assistants, and post\-doctoral scholars. The executive director exercises direct supervision of a team of professional and administrative and office support personnel in CMED’s Faculty and Staff Services Office. The executive director also provides oversight and implementation of policies, processes, and procedures associated with the academic appointment, reappointment, promotion, and tenure of medical faculty, associated professional staff members, community educators, CMU Medical Education Partners faculty, and other external partner faculty appointments.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, management, or other field directly relevant to the duties and responsibilities of the position.
Eight years of professional\-level faculty or staff services experience.
Prior supervisory and management\-level experience.
Demonstrated ability to deliver a broad array of employment type services in a complex organization such as a college of medicine, university, or health care system.
Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of a large, complex organization and to be a strong advocate and leader in process improvement as related to faculty and staff service delivery.
Outstanding verbal and written communications skills.
Demonstrated team\-oriented leadership style.
Ability to perform the essential functions of this position, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree or in lieu of, a relevant and recognized human resources professional certification (e.g., SPHR, PHR, SHRM\-CP, SHRM\-SCP).
Experience in a higher education, governmental, or other non\-profit setting.
Experience in a health affairs setting.
Duties \& Responsibilities
Provides direct supervision and management of the College of Medicine Faculty and Staff Services (CMED F\&SS) office. This includes coaching, mentoring, and managing the performance of direct report staff members, ensuring that the proper levels of staffing and the workflow assignments within the staff are appropriate, and that the office’s processes and procedures are effective, compliant, and responsive to client service.
Serves as a subject matter expert and consultant to managers and executive leadership in CMED regarding faculty appointment, reappointment, promotion, and tenure of medical faculty and appointment/reappointment of community educators and external partner faculty. This includes providing specific consultation on complex faculty and staff issues and working with the Human Resources Department/Faculty Personnel Services to ensure the successful implementation, interpretation, and application of CMU’s human resources policies and practices.
Oversees and improves CMED’s faculty and staff onboarding, orientation, and appointment/reappointment processes.
Provides consultation and best practice recommendations to the advancement committee, the dean, and others regarding matters related to appointment, reappointment, promotion, tenure, post tenure review, and faculty evaluations.
Updates CMED’s faculty handbook and manual to include new and revised processes and procedures for faculty appointment, reappointment, promotion and advancement, and tenure.
Maintains a database and personnel files of all faculty appointed within CMED.
Serves a key role in addressing employee relations issues and concerns within CMED and partnering with CMU’s Human Resources, Faculty Personnel Services, and Office of Civil Rights and Institutional Equity, to ensure all employee relations issues and concerns are addressed and resolved consistent with CMU policies, practices, and collective bargaining agreements.
Provides oversight of HIPAA workforce training and compliance while working with the CMU HIPAA Privacy Officer to ensure HIPAA policies and procedures are implemented in CMU’s clinics.
Develops and maintains the Department of Faculty and Staff Services budget.
Promotes a commitment to creating and maintaining a welcoming and considerate community.
Oversees staff professional development and employee recognition programs.
Performs other professional duties as assigned.
Supervision Exercised
Supervisors are expected to support the Leadership Standards of Central Michigan University and foster a culture that inspires excellence. The Leadership Standards define how we lead and treat others in our teams. As leaders, it is our responsibility to seek input from our teams to continuously improve leadership abilities and demonstration of the standards. Additionally, it is our responsibility to encourage and support the growth and development of those whom we lead. At CMU, we encourage employees to grow both personally and professionally, and thus advance CMU’s culture of excellence.
Message to Applicants
Central Michigan University is dedicated to fostering an environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We are especially interested in highly qualified candidates who will advance and promote CMU’s mission, vision, and leadership standards.
You must submit an on\-line application in order to be considered as an applicant for this position.
Cover letters may be addressed to the Hiring Committee.
Supervisors are expected to support the Leadership Standards of Central Michigan University and foster a culture that inspires excellence. Please review the Leadership Standards before applying for this position.
Employee Group Professional \& Administrative \-Salary
Staff Pay Level
Pay Range $95,000 \- $115,000 per year
Division Academic Affairs
Department College of Medicine
Position Status Regular
Position End Date
Employment Status Full\-Time
FTE 1\.0
Position Type 12 month
Weekly Work Schedule Mon\-Fri, 8:00 a.m. \- 5:00 p.m. / weekends and evenings as needed
Location Mount Pleasant, MI
About the Department
About CMU
Central Michigan University has a more than 125\-year legacy of preparing students to become leaders and changemakers in their communities and in their personal and professional lives.
We serve nearly 15,500 students on our Mount Pleasant campus, in satellite locations around the state and throughout the country, and through flexible online programs. Many of our approximately 300 undergraduate, master’s, specialist and doctoral programs in the arts, media, business, education, human services, health professions, liberal arts, social sciences, medicine, science and engineering are nationally ranked for excellence.
CMU leads the nation in leadership development programming through our Sarah R. Opperman Leadership Institute, and we are proud to be among only 5% of U.S. universities in the top two Carnegie research classifications. Our faculty work with graduate and undergraduate students in areas such as Great Lakes research, medical innovation, engineering technology and more.
Central is home to 17 men’s and women’s Division 1 sports including football, basketball, gymnastics, baseball, wrestling and more. Our student\-athletes achieve great success in competition and in the classroom, capturing Mid\-American Conference championships and maintaining an average cumulative GPA of 3\.17\.
CMU is located in Mount Pleasant, a community that blends the best of small\-town living with big\-city amenities. It’s part of the culturally varied and vibrant Great Lakes Bay Region that also includes Saginaw, Bay City, Midland and the state’s largest Native American community, centered on the Saginaw Chippewa Isabella Reservation in Mount Pleasant.
Area residents enjoy the mix of outdoor activities, cultural events, shopping and dining options, and family attractions. Other major Michigan destinations and attractions — Lansing, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Traverse City, wineries, beaches, golf and ski resorts, and many more — are within easy reach of the city’s central location in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.
CMU employees enjoy access to a nationally recognized wellness program along with health care and benefits that exceed regional, state and national norms.
CMU Leadership Standards
Central Michigan University is a place where we value students and work for their success, where we act as family, and where employees are engaged, appreciated and have extraordinary opportunities to make a difference.
We intentionally maintain and strengthen the hallmark CMU culture that sets us apart from our peers by expecting CMU leaders and employees to model the following Leadership Standards and develop them within their teams.
Please review the Leadership Standards before applying for this position.