Director, Center for Arts in Medicine

Overview
The Center for Arts in Medicine (CAM) in the College of the Arts is committed to advancing research, education, and practice in arts in health, locally and globally. We seek a dynamic director to lead our close-knit and rapidly expanding academic community made up of artists and scholars working in and researching the intersections of arts and health. This is a full-time, twelve-month faculty position. Rank and tenure status contingent on candidate qualifications.

Three overarching tenets ground and guide the work and culture of CAM:
• The field of arts in health is built on a broad array of histories and practices at the intersections of the arts, culture, and health; therefore, we embrace a broad range of practice in our education, research, and practice.
• Each and every life has equal value and potential; therefore, we are committed to equity and anti-racism in our teaching, research, and practice.
• We exist to advance evidence-based practice in arts in health; therefore, we seek the integration of teaching, research, and practice.

Our new director will join us in manifesting CAM’s tenets and help propel us to new levels of excellence as part of a comprehensive land, sea, and space-grant research university (ranked #5 among U.S. public universities).

We seek a strong academic administrator: a strategic thinker with significant leadership experience, excellent communication skills, and administrative acumen. This individual will serve as a vital collaborator on the College’s executive leadership team and with CAM’s research and teaching-focused faculty and staff. The successful candidate should have the capacity to build programs and curricula and also cultivate a realistic, positive, and professional working culture. Well-qualified candidates will understand the origins of our field and appreciate the potential of emerging aspects of the work, in particular, community engaged practices.

Responsibilities of the Director
• Develop, foster, and maintain an inclusive, diverse, and collegial environment that optimizes the strengths of our students, faculty, and staff and attracts new people to join us

• Help develop and strengthen an academic, curricular, and pedagogical structure that will continue to shape and articulate the Center for Arts in Medicine’s place at the forefront of the academic disciplines it encompasses
• Guide the Center for Arts in Medicine as it becomes a doctoral degree and tenure granting unit within the College
• Collaborate with the Center faculty to achieve and sustain a thriving research portfolio
• Manage the administrative, budget/fiscal, facilities, academic and research operations, and degree programs of the Center in ways that are in alignment with the strategic plan of the Center for Arts in Medicine, the College of the Arts, and University of Florida
• Lead efforts in external engagement and fundraising as components of program building
• Lead the ongoing examination of the Center’s artistic, scholarly, and academic programs
• Advance the collaboration with UF Health Arts in Medicine to facilitate academic engagement in clinical and community practices
• Articulate the Center’s vision, goals, and accomplishments to its constituencies and promote visibility

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students, faculty, and staff to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will prepare students to access and unsettle centers of power in a radically changing world. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for equity on local and global levels.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution dedicated to building a broadly diverse and inclusive faculty, seeking faculty of all races, ethnicities, genders, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications
• Evidence of success in promoting and engaging an environment that advances access, equity, and inclusion
• Significant experience in academic leadership at an institution of higher education
• A terminal degree (or professional equivalency) and a substantial record of academic research and/or scholarly achievement in an area of practice that falls within the scope of, or is adjacent to, CAM’s existing and emerging work; examples of such areas include the arts, medicine, health and public health, humanities, community practice, and human centered design
• For tenure-track applicants, a terminal degree in a relevant field (as above) and a record of distinction in research, teaching, and service commensurate with a tenured appointment in the unit most appropriate to the candidate’s area of expertise, at the rank of Associate or Full Professor

Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated skills and a record of success in:
• Managing and developing people
• Building and implementing academic programs, including curriculum and assessment
• Raising funds, stewarding finances, and allocating resources
• Communicating with internal and external audiences
• Engaging collaboratively with others, including work with communities
• Navigating and leveraging the networks and structures of a large, public university