Director, Wellness Program - Academic Enterprise, Office of Faculty Affairs

• Develop and execute a long-term vision and strategic plan for the wellness program ensuring alignment with the institution's broader goals.
• Oversees the work of the office.
• Partners and collaborates with leaders to create strategic initiatives, programs, and system-wide resources..
• Deliver training and workshops on wellness-related topics.
• Promote awareness of available wellness resources through campaigns, seminars, and events.
• Advocate for policy changes that promote wellness, work-life harmony, and psychological safety.
• Establishes metrics and benchmarks to evaluate the effectiveness of wellness initiatives.
• Measures impact and progress toward goals and reports wellness data to leadership.
• Integrates efforts with other relevant departments, including, but not limited to, human resources, patient experience, and patient services, chief medical and nursing officers, Graduate Medical Education, Residency Program Directors, Office of Faculty Affairs, Faculty Senate, School-level administration, and department of legal affairs.
• Collaborates with University of Texas system counterparts.
• Seek opportunities to perform research, generate scholarship, and garner grant funding to create and share new knowledge in the well-being field.
• Accountable as a leadership team member for setting and advancing wellness initiatives, driving program innovation and impact, fostering a high-performance culture, ensuring seamless intradepartmental communication and collaboration, and effectively managing the budget and operations with the scope of responsibility.
• Represent wellness program priorities in discussions with stakeholders and business partners to successfully influence and advance organizational objectives and policy initiatives.
• Identify, develop, and manage a network of internal and external partnerships to establish project value propositions. Build a strong reputation for the wellness community by publishing, actively participating, and presenting at conferences.
• Be a strong leader and use expertise to drive strong performance of the wellness program initiatives group by recruiting, retaining, and developing a high-quality staff. Effectively drive a high-performance culture through direct and indirect reports.
• Ability to track progress against project plans, generate status updates, and communicate progress and issues to management.
• Manage, coach, and mentor direct reports, coordinating resources to meet program goals.
• Maintain a continuing knowledge of scientific advances within the industry and academic community.
• Provide strong leadership skills when working with diverse UTMB leaders.
• Develops relationships with external organizations. 
• Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure. 
• Performs related duties as required or other duties as assigned by the Provost or President.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES

• Knowledge of well-being models, drivers of burnout and well-being, and programmatic approaches.
• Knowledge of best practices for academic health institutions and Universities.
• Strong knowledge of evidence-based wellness practices, occupational health, and mental health promotion.
• Ability to establish and maintain collaborative partnerships with subordinates, peers, and leaders.
• Ability to utilize data to make strategic and operational recommendations and decisions.
• Strong public speaking skills.
• Expertise in curriculum and program development.
• Experience in coordinating complex initiatives.
• Sophisticated understanding of organizational culture and principles of culture change.
• Strong leadership abilities for project teams and management responsibilities, and an ability to bring together diverse skill sets to form a cohesive team.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• A passion for research and commitment to professionalism.