The Department of Health Policy and Management at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health (SPH) invites applications for a tenured, tenure-track, or academic professional track (non-tenure) position with a full-time 9-month appointment. Applicants will be considered for the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor, the rank of Assistant Professor of Practice, Associate Professor of Practice, or Professor of Practice, or the rank of Instructional Assistant Professor, Instructional Associate Professor, or Instructional Professor depending on qualifications. The successful candidate will direct our Master of Health Administration (MHA) program.
The successful candidate will work with multidisciplinary academic teams to teach courses in health management and health administration, provide mentoring for MHA students, and if in a tenured/tenured-track position, contribute to health management scholarship. The Department is especially interested in applicants with training and demonstrated interest in health management.
Faculty enjoy fully-funded 9-month appointments with teaching, research and service responsibilities as appropriate for their rank and track. This appointment is scheduled to start August 1st, 2024, though the formal start date is negotiable.
The Department is seeking a colleague qualified to direct the MHA Program who can effectively develop and execute a vision for our Top 30 MHA program (residential) as well as a re-launched executive MHA (EMHA) track. The ideal candidate for this position will be effective at strategic planning, academic assessment, and student-focused leadership. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated knowledge of and ability to teach healthcare management. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled; however, for best consideration candidates should apply prior to May 31, 2024.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Direct all activities related to the MHA program, including day-to-day operations, strategic objectives, goals and long-range planning and implementation
- Responsible for oversight of the MHA curriculum including course development and logistics, with assistance from the Program Coordinator
- Teach courses within the MHA, including but not limited to internship and capstone courses and orientation to the degree/professionalism courses
- Depending on expertise, may teach subject matter courses within the degree
- Lead the MHA Admissions and CAHME Accreditation Committees
- Facilitate all aspects of current and future program accreditation
- Direct supervision of program including student recruitment and marketing, new student orientation, and program evaluation and effectiveness
- Serve as liaison with faculty who teach in the MHA program, adjunct faculty, and faculty from other schools who teach MHA students on issues tied to accreditation, evaluation, and student performance
- Coordinate the MHA residency and culminating experience, including developing connections with potential preceptor organizations and mentors in Texas and elsewhere. Assist students in locating projects and preceptors. Formalize scope of work plans and work with legal team on campus to get legal agreements in place with host organizations
- Develop and implement strategies to engage alumni of the program, assist with advancement activities and build relationships with external constituents and career placement service
- Correspond with potential program applicants including, but not be limited to, the application and admissions process, transcripts, mandatory orientations, registration, coursework and degree requirements and related student inquiries
- Provide one-on-one student advising (with dedicated teaching faculty and staff), career counseling, and monitor student progress toward degree
About the Department of Health Policy & Management
The Department has 14 tenured and tenure track faculty, as well as 7 academic professional track (APT) faculty members, and is home to more than 120 graduate students. It offers a traditional Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a concentration in Health Policy & Management, and a PhD in Health Services Research. The Department also houses a CAHME-accredited Master of Health Administration (MHA) degree program that is well ranked by U.S. News and World Report. Additionally, Department faculty teach in the School of Public Health’s Bachelor of Science in Public Health generalist degree program, which has more than 2,400 majors.
The Department has a commitment to scholarly inquiry in a broad spectrum of areas. Research, scholarship, and creative activities in the department represent a wide array of disciplines, expertise, and interests. The Department’s faculty have backgrounds in data science, economics, health services research, public health, political science, dentistry, law, and management science. Our faculty members are highly collaborative with substantial research strengths across a variety of areas, including health care access and delivery infrastructures, quality of health care services, critical access hospitals, long-term care policies, Medicaid, managed care, chronic disease burden, maternal and child health, health disparities, data privacy, as well as mental and behavioral health, among others.
The School of Public Health is the only unit within Texas A&M Health holding qualifications and membership in the Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools (HSHPS).
Additional Information
Located in College Station, Texas on the flagship campus of the Texas A&M University System, the CEPH-accredited School of Public Health has more than 91 faculty in four departments. Texas A&M University, a land-, sea-, and space-grant institution, was the state’s first public institution of higher learning, is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU) and boasts world-class resources available to all faculty.