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Director for the Institute for Health Policy and Practice (IHPP), College of Health and Human Services, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Posted: Monday, February 6, 2023

Summary:

The College of Health and Human Services at the University of New Hampshire seeks a dynamic leader to serve as Director for the Institute for Health Policy and Practice (IHPP) with eligibility for faculty appointment at the Associate or Full rank (tenure or non-tenure earning) in an aligned department. Review of applications will begin March 1, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled.

View Position Online: https://jobs.usnh.edu/postings/53754

Duties will include:

  • Provide leadership and management across IHPP including supervision of the Leadership Team, research and practice mentorship of staff, oversight of hiring and other HR decisions, and providing strategic direction for IHPP. Lead collaboration with key health and health care constituencies to develop partnerships that extend the reach of the Institute.
  • Represent the Institute on the College Executive Committee and participate in strategic College, University, State, National and Federal policy activities. Work closely with College departments and Institutes to promote and expand interdisciplinary activity.
  • Contribute to IHPP grant applications and existing projects across a variety of funding sources.
  • Serve as Principal Investigator (PI) on selected grants and contracts and provide expertise to meet project deliverables including dissemination of research and policy.
  • Provide support to the leadership team to continue to build the IHPP portfolio and secure diverse resources, including developing entrepreneurial business models for service and research.
  • Continue to build a growing body of applied research, policy and service that advances the missions of the IHPP and the CHHS and promotes best practices.

Minimum Qualifications: 

  • An earned doctorate with health or human services focus
  • 5-7 years of leadership and institutional management experience in academia, government, or related non-governmental organizations conducting health policy and practice related research or analysis
  • A strong history of externally funded research and grant development with a successful record managing grants and contracts from multiple sources
  • A commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and the creation of a positive work environment
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and execute strategic collaborations with state and national government, philanthropic, intramural and extramural partners
  • Demonstrated competency in developing and overseeing budgets over $500,000

Additional Preferred Qualifications

  • A sustained record of publications in peer-reviews journals and/or policy and white papers
  • Ability to think strategically, remaining focused on goals and objectives
  • High level of organization and attention to detail
  • Demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit and ability to grow the Institute’s operations including sustainable funding for core operations

Institute Information:

The University of New Hampshire is one of four member institutions of the University System of New Hampshire (USNH). For 150 years, UNH has provided comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate programs and graduate programs of distinction, as New Hampshire’s flagship public research University. Originally founded in 1866 as the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, the University is one of only nine land-, sea-, and space-grant institutions in the nation. A major public university with a Carnegie Foundation Very High Research Activity (R1) classification, UNH offers its roughly 16,000 students thousands of courses in more than 100 major fields of study, in addition to a wide variety of minors, dual majors, Master’s, and doctoral programs.

Documents needed to apply: 

  • Resume 
  • Cover letter

EEO Statement: The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry. 

The UNH Diversity Resource Guide with information and programming available in the seacoast area, New Hampshire, and the region can be found here: https://www.unh.edu/hr/diversity-resource-guide