Applications welcome - Assistant Dean. Global Health

FTE 0.4

Three Year Term

Reporting to: Associate Dean, Indigenous, Local and Global Health (ILGH) Office 

The ILGH is recruiting for an Assistant Dean, Global Health.  If you are interested you are invited to submit a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, and 3 letters of reference.  This role must be filled by an academic staff member (GFT) at the University of Calgary.    The application period closes on March 18, 2022.  Materials should be forwarded to denise.keith1@ucalgary.ca.

Reporting to the Associate Dean, ILGH, the Assistant Dean, Global Health oversees ILGH global health projects, activities, and programming.  The Assistant Dean works collaboratively with ILGH university partners, communities, faculty, staff, and CSM Deans to support global health-oriented activities and programming ensuring alignment and accountability with the 2021-2024 ILGH Office’s vision, strategic plan, and mandate to:

• Sustain and strengthen longitudinal partnerships and community relationships
• Develop and showcase best practices for collaboration with internal and external partners and communities 
• Facilitate equity-centered education, research, innovation, and service
• Innovate policies, products, and programs for health equity that address the social determinants of health, and
• Advocate for health systems and policy change

The Assistant Dean promotes balanced, sustainable, and respectful partnerships that facilitate collaboration and strengthen reciprocal/shared learning and research opportunities.  The incumbent supports CSM faculty involved in global health partnerships and learner exchange, and explores, builds, and maintains relationships with relevant UC programs, projects, institutes, and departments to harness the expertise and interdisciplinary strength with the goal of sustaining and enhancing CSM global health opportunities.  The Assistant Dean recommends strategies to coalesce CSM global health education, research, and services supporting and strengthening an effective institutional-level vision encompassing quality and impactful integrated global health programming.    

Skills and Aptitudes

• Demonstrated expertise in global health research and scholarship
• Demonstrated communication skills including cross-cultural competency, and knowledge translation to academia and public within Canada and internationally
• Health/programming advocacy and policy experience is an asset
• Experience collaborating within a global health partnership, ideally in a leadership role
• Demonstrated leadership, mentorship, and training of undergraduates, postgraduates, and faculty