Director of DEI and Community Engaged Scholarship

Director of DEI and Community Engaged Scholarship

Position Overview:
The salary range is $246,588 - 280,000. This position includes membership in the Health Sciences Compensation Plan .

The Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California Davis (UCD) School of Medicine envisions a healthier and more equitable world. In service to this vision, the mission of the Department is to advance the field of family medicine through innovative education, person-centered care, research and other forms of scholarship, community engagement, and advocacy, to improve population health and equity.

To help advance this mission, the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the UCD School of Medicine is recruiting for a highly skilled, engaging, and visionary full-time faculty member and leader in the Professorial, ClinX, HSCP or In-Residence series at the Associate or Full Professor rank, to serve as the Department's inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Community Engaged Scholarship. This position reports to the Department Chair and provides Department level leadership across all our programs and represents the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the UCD School of Medicine and in the leadership teams of community-based organizations we partner with in care and training.

The Department of Family and Community Medicine is located on the UCD Health campus in Sacramento, California, and headquartered at the UCD School of Medicine, which US News and World Report ranked #3 nationally for student diversity, #5 for family medicine, and #6 for primary care in 2023. The Department includes 22 faculty physicians (7 in research-oriented positions), 6 staff physicians, and 42 resident physicians. We are a diverse group of clinicians, educators, and scholars who strive to deliver outstanding care to all our patients, improve the way primary care is provided, and educate the next generation of clinicians including family physicians, all pursued through an equity lens.

Under the leadership of Department Chair Anthony Jerant, MD, the Department of Family and Community Medicine is in an exciting phase of its 50-year history at a time of rapid transformation in healthcare. Known for outstanding education, clinical care, and ground-breaking research, the Department also has had longstanding and meaningful engagement with DEI and antiracism efforts, a sampling of which are summarized on the Department website: .

The inaugural Director of DEI and Community Engaged Scholarship will be the key Departmental agent providing vision and leadership to successfully pursue this approach.

EXPECTATIONS
Reporting structure: The Founding Director of DEI and Community Engaged Scholarship reports to the Department Chair, with secondary 'dotted line' reporting to the DFCM Vice Chairs for Clinical Affairs, Education, and Research.

Responsibilities:

1. Recognized as an institutional leader by UCD Health, UCD School of Medicine, and community organizations in relation to community engagement and related research and scholarship, and in DEI and antiracism advocacy and efforts.
2. Plan, implement, oversee, support, and evaluate community engagement efforts and bi-directionally beneficial and impactful community-engaged research and scholarship stemming from those efforts.
3. Serve as a role model, mentor, and sponsor for other DFCM faculty and learners who are leading, participating in, or aspire to involvement with community-engaged research and scholarship.
4. Support and strengthen collaboration between academic researchers and community partners throughout the entire arc of research (planning, conducting, dissemination).
5. Support and promote equity focused research.
6. Provide vision and leadership for DEI and antiracism initiatives across the department's various missions and sites, aligned with the Departmental and institutional strategic plans.
7. Serve as Chair of the DFCM Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Equity (IDARE) Committee, and as our key representative on the UCD SOM IDARE Committee: .
8. Liaison with and, where appropriate, serve on other School of Medicine, health system (e.g., Community Review Board), and community organization committees and represent the DFCM by advocating for our patients, communities, clinicians, and learners, and working collaboratively to develop mutually beneficial community-engaged initiatives and projects.
9. As a member of the department's executive leadership team, contribute to the development and implementation of departmental strategic planning, budgeting, management, and operations.
10. Meet regularly with leaders from UCD Health and community partner organizations, to help align DFCM's strategic vision with the goals of the health system and those of our community partners.
11. Develop and monitor metrics applicable to the Department's DEI and antiracism goals. This includes periodically assessing, qualitatively and quantitatively, the productivity and success of programs, policies, and services, with presentation of periodic progress reports to the Department and its leadership.
12. Participate in or lead efforts to identify, recruit, retain, develop, and increase the diversity, representation, and inclusion of our faculty and staff, addressing and mitigating bias in the recruitment and selection processes.
13. Act as lead point of contact for faculty and staff in addressing concerns regarding discrimination because of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religious identity, or disability.
14. Build and provide top quality outpatient primary care to an outpatient panel of size proportionate to clinical effort.
15. Develop curricula for residents, medical students, and potentially other trainees (e.g., nursing students), with a particular focus on the topics of community-engaged scholarship, social medicine, disparities in healthcare access and delivery, health and healthcare equity and advocacy, structural competency, and related topics.
16. Oversee ongoing faculty and staff development education in DEI topics and structural competency.

Desired characteristics:

1. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build trust and longstanding relationships.
2. Approachability, honesty, and transparency.
3. The ability to articulate a vision, recruit support for achieving it, and convey genuine passion for the organization's mission and objectives.
4. A collegial, consultative, and diplomatic management style that respects and facilitates interdisciplinary/inter-professional cooperation.
5. Analytical skills and conceptual thinking that embraces challenges, identifies opportunities, and catalyzes action.
6. Ability to thrive in a complex matrix organization with the typically high levels of uncertainty and ambiguity inherent to such organizations.
7. Adaptability to change and the ability to conceive of alternative approaches to achieving results.
8. Strong sense of self and emotional intelligence, political acumen, and personal humility.
9. Unquestioned personal integrity.

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