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Cellular & Molecular Medicine

https://cmm.arizona.edu/

UAHS - Tucson

1501 N. Campbell Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85724 USA

The CMM Program Coordinator, Sr. will Coordinate, manage and/or perform general and specialized functions in support of the Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine (CMM) and its Department Head. Independently coordinate Faculty Affairs, including faculty appointments, promotions, retentions, and related processes to include non-tenure track academic and research faculty, postdoctoral fellows and Emeritus positions, ensuring compliance with applicable University and ABOR polices. Manage administrative operations for the interdisciplinary Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program (MCRP), including equipment acquisition and inventory management, facilities management and building renovations, general administration and procurement. Incumbent will be required to handle sensitive and confidential information with complete discretion.

Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; state and optional retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!

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Faculty Affairs

• Advise the Department Head and the CMM P&T committee regarding all aspects of faculty and postdoctoral fellow recruitment, appointment, annual review, promotion and retention processes.
• Serve as point of contact for COM Faculty Affairs for all departmental actions.
• Utilizing expertise and proven strategies, advise faculty on content and ensure that dossiers are prepared in accordance with COM timelines, processes and policies. Draft and assemble materials for the appointment and promotion dossiers as needed.
• Coordinate all faculty employment activities, including recruitment, initial hires, 3rd year reviews, promotions and tenure, emeritus, part-time/temporary faculty and postdoctoral fellows, reappointment packages, administrative and courtesy appointments, etc.
• Coordinate annual faculty review process. Collect, organize and present data on all aspects of faculty performance by mission for each faculty member for use in the annual faculty review process.
• Coordinate and oversee all logistical aspects of visits for faculty and postdoctoral fellow online and in-person interviews. Maintain records documenting search, recruitment, and appointment/promotion processes.
• Plan and organize virtual and in-person events relating to recruitment, philanthropy, research dissemination, etc.
• Attend monthly faculty meetings; take and prepare minutes. Create anonymous electronic ballots for all faculty votes; tally the votes and report the results.
• Coordinate and ensure that all postdoctoral fellows have formal, written training programs/plans and advisory committees.
• Advise faculty on the postdoctoral fellows lifecycle to ensure that they move through the ranks (Postdoctoral Research Associate I/II/III/IV/V) as their training progresses.

Administrative Operations

• Coordinates equipment acquisition, maintenance and building renovations for the MCRP
  in the Medical Research Building.
• Maintain and manage MCRP capital asset inventory.
• Coordinate the removal of surplus equipment for CMM investigators in the MCRP/MRB.
• Manage procurement of supplies and services for MCRP shared equipment and equipment in the Department Head’s lab.
• Serves as liaison with students, faculty, staff and community donors in facilitating MCRP objectives.
• Maintain Cardiovascular Research website.
• Purchasing card approver and time approver for Sarver Heart Center.
• Collects and analyses data and prepares reports for the Department Head.
• Manages travel activities including reimbursements for all CMM investigators in the MCRP/MRB.
• Develops tours/talks/conferences for fundraising events for MCRP/SHC.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent advanced learning attained through professional level experience.
• 3 years of relevant work experience.

*Five (5) years of administrative and operational experience in a university College of Medicine academic department, including asset management and faculty affairs. *Five (5) years of experience preparing and submitting faculty dossiers for appointments, promotions, track transfers, tenure, emeriti, third-year reviews, etc.

Exempt

Full Time

40

1.0

Fiscal

Academic Administration

Yes - Full Benefits

$48,786 - $65,997

salary at 1.0 full-time equivalency (FTE)

8

PC2

Academic Affairs

Academic Administration

Name-based criminal background check (non-security sensitive)

1

Lesley Cephas | cephas@arizona.edu

7/20/2021

Yes

Resume and Cover Letter

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