Associate Professor for Leadership and Professional Development

Western University; Lebanon (OR); On-site; USD 226,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Paid time off

Insurance plans

Retirement benefits

Supportive culture

Job summary

Western University of Health Sciences invites applications for the Associate Professor for Leadership and Professional Development at the Lebanon, Oregon campus. This academic leadership role focuses on developing and teaching graduate‑level leadership curricula, coaching professionals, and designing workforce development programs across colleges and partners in healthcare.

The successful candidate will mentor students and faculty, lead workshops, and advance a longitudinal pathway from student

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree required in a related field.
• Experience leading leadership education and professional development.
• Experience teaching and mentoring adult learners and professionals.

Responsibilities

• Teach and develop graduate-level leadership curricula and modules.
• Coach and mentor students and professionals in leadership and professionalism.
• Design workshops and professional development programs.
• Collaborate with colleges, institutes, and healthcare partners.
• Lead the longitudinal leadership development pathway from student formation to executive leadership.

Skills

Leadership development

Teaching skills

Coaching and mentoring

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Doctoral degree in healthcare leadership

Job description

Associate Professor for Leadership and Professional Development

As you take your first step onto a Western University of Health Sciences campus, each path, each person, each structure comes with a transformative story. WesternU is more than the practice of medicine. We are defined by character and culture.

At WesternU, you will discover humanism at the heart of every interaction: a warm welcome, a sincere smile, a positive word, a kind deed, a thoughtful gesture. You will see students work together on case studies; a parade of pets in campus parks; student clubs offering opportunities for career growth and community involvement; and faculty, staff and students designing their future and the future of WesternU. We display a collaborative mindset in how we operate, educate, and serve others.

Although, geographically, we are two campuses - as humanists, we are one: to enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities and achieve excellence in everything we do. We attract diverse, professional faculty, staff and students that thrive in an environment of humanistic health care education. Join our team of faculty and staff and make a difference.

Position Title
Associate Professor for Leadership and Professional Development

Position Control Number
F03609

Type of Position
Faculty

Position Status
Full-time

Campus
Western University Campus-Lebanon, OR

Position Location

Department
1480-HCOM Site Dean

Job Summary

This opportunity is available exclusively to current Western University of Health Sciences employees. We value the talent, experience, and contributions of our WesternU community and warmly encourage qualified employees to apply.

The Associate Professor for Leadership and Professional Development provides academic leadership in leadership and professional development education for students, faculty, staff, physicians, and other healthcare professionals. Serving as an educator, curriculum developer, leadership coach, mentor, and facilitator, the Associate Professor helps learners strengthen their leadership, professionalism, ethical decision-making, and communication skills.

Key responsibilities include developing and teaching graduate-level and professional leadership curricula; coaching and mentoring students and professionals; designing workshops and professional development programs; and engaging internal and external subject-matter experts. Working collaboratively across colleges, institutes, and healthcare partners, the Associate Professor will help establish an institutional framework for a longitudinal leadership development pathway that extends from student professional formation through advanced professional and executive leadership.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Individuals must possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities or be able to perform the essential functions of the assigned classification, with or without reasonable accommodation(s), using some other combination of skills and abilities.

Knowledge

• Expertise in leadership development and professional education, including applying leadership concepts in practice.
• Knowledge of leadership theory and practice.
• Knowledge of professionalism and identity formation.
• Understanding of higher education, healthcare, and academic medicine.

Skills

• Strong teaching and facilitation skills.
• Coaching and mentoring skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong collaboration and relationship-management skills.

Abilities

• Ability to build credibility with diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to demonstrate a commitment to working in an organization that values and promotes humanism.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Doctoral degree in an appropriate discipline such as medicine, healthcare administration, leadership, organizational development, or a related field.

Experience

• Demonstrated experience in leadership education, student leadership development, professionalism education, healthcare executive or academic leadership, faculty development, organizational development, or graduate/executive education.
• Experience teaching and mentoring/coaching students, adult learners, or other professional audiences, with demonstrated effectiveness as a teacher, facilitator, and presenter.
• Experience designing curricula, courses, workshops, or structured professional development experiences, and working collaboratively across disciplines and organizational levels.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience

• Experience teaching health professions or graduate-level leadership/professionalism courses in academic medicine or health professions education.
• Experience mentoring or coaching students, teams, or executives, including with validated leadership assessment instruments.
• Significant executive healthcare leadership experience, including developing physician or healthcare leadership programs.
• Experience designing longitudinal, case-based, or interprofessional leadership education and evaluating program outcomes.
• Demonstrated scholarship or partnership-building related to leadership, professionalism, education, or organizational development.

Key Responsibilities

• Teach and facilitate leadership courses, modules, and seminars for students and professionals.
• Serve as an instructor, facilitator, and subject-matter expert for leadership programs and events.
• Design evidence-informed learning that applies leadership theory and promotes reflection, collaboration, and ethical decisions.
• Lead the design, implementation, evaluation, and improvement of leadership and professionalism curricula.
• Customize curricula for students, professionals, faculty, physicians, and staff across leadership levels.
• Align outcomes, instruction, assessments, and competencies with current evidence and best practices.
• Develop progressive curricula from foundational leadership and professional identity through organizational, healthcare, and executive leadership.
• Coach and mentor individuals and small groups to strengthen leadership, professional identity and career readiness.
• Mentor students in leadership programs and organizations, providing feedback that builds self-awareness and accountability.
• Guide individualized development plans and facilitate peer mentoring and leadership groups.
• Collaborate with faculty, student affairs, and clinical educators; appropriately refer matters outside the scope of developmental coaching (e.g., academic performance, conduct, wellness).
• Coach faculty, physicians, healthcare professionals, and staff to identify strengths, goals, and development priorities.
• Coach leaders through transitions, organizational challenges, and team dynamics, using assessments or 360-degree feedback when qualified.
• Maintain confidentiality and professional boundaries, distinguishing coaching from performance management and HR or Faculty Affairs responsibilities.
• Assess leadership and professional development needs, learning outcomes, and program effectiveness.
• Use evaluation findings to improve programs and curricula.
• Stay current in leadership and health professions education and contribute to scholarship as appropriate.
• Design and deliver leadership and professional development workshops, retreats, and executive education aligned with institutional and learner needs.
• Customize in-person, virtual, and hybrid programs for internal and external partners.
• Recruit and coordinate faculty, healthcare executives, coaches, and subject-matter experts for leadership and professionalism programs.
• Build partnerships with healthcare, professional, and academic organizations to expand the contributor network.
• Coordinate educational activities across units and serve on relevant committees and planning teams.

Work Schedule

• Usual business hours Mon-Fri 8am-5pm. Some evenings and weekends as well as travel out of town may be required.

Benefits

We believe in making an impact in the lives of our employees, personally, and professionally. Every employee has different individual and/or family needs. We offer benefits that are both comprehensive and flexible to address your unique needs. We believe work-life harmony is positive and achievable.

We offer competitive salaries, generous paid time off, insurance plans, reimbursements, and retirement benefits. Additionally,

• Our faculty, staff, and administrators are 100% focused on student success.
• Our University culture creates the context for a nurturing and supportive environment.
• Faculty, staff, and students can expect to make deep, personal relationships within the University community.
• As a Faculty, Staff, or Student at WesternU, you can focus on work that you love, be your authentic self, and lead to the future with innovation in health sciences.
• WesternU’s core value of humanism encourages all to bring their whole self in all that they do.
• We are committed to fostering a culture of respect, equity, collaboration, and fun at all levels for all people!

Expected Pay Scale

Minimum

Minimum $250,581.25 Annually

Maximum

Maximum $250,581.25 Annually

Physical Demands

Do the essential functions of this job require lifting?

Do the essential functions of this job require lifting? Yes

If yes, list maximum weight and duration

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by any employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to use hands to operate a PC in the performance of job duties, and talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to sit, and reach with hands and arms, and occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus.

Describe Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this class. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Duties are normally performed in a typical office setting. The noise level in this setting is typically low to moderate.

Conditions of Employment - Background Check

To secure employment, successful fulfillment of a background check, including a criminal records check, may be required. Western University of Health Sciences will extend a conditional offer of employment, subject to rescission if the background check unveils disqualifying information or if it is found that the candidate deliberately withheld or misrepresented information. Non-completion of the background check to satisfaction may impact the ongoing employment of a current Western University of Health Sciences employee who received a conditional offer for the position.

Pay Transparency Act

Pay Transparency Act- Western University of Health Sciences is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range considers various factors in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be offered a salary at or near the top of the range for a position. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience. The Expected Pay Scale is defined as the budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position. Placement within the Expected Pay Scale is determined by internal equity and relevant qualifications.

Equal Opportunity Statement (EEO)

It is the policy of Western University to provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment as required by law without regard to age, race, color, national origin ancestry, citizenship, ethnicity, creed, religion or religious creed, sex or gender (including gender identity), marital status, sexual orientation, disability (both physical and mental) including HIV and AIDS, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics), pregnancy (which includes childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), age, genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other applicable protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.This policy applies to all employment practices within WesternU including without limitation, hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoffs, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training. WesternU makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merits, and business needs at the time.

Required Documents

• Curriculum Vitae

Optional Documents

• Cover Letter
• Letter of Recommendation #1
• Letter of Recommendation #2
• Letter of Recommendation #3
• Additional Applicant Document
• Required License/Certification

Supplemental Questions

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk ( * ).

• * How did you hear about this employment opportunity? Please provide the name of the website, individual, or organization.

  (Open Ended Question)

• * Are you a current employee at Western University of Health Sciences?
  • Yes
  • No
• * This position is located in Lebanon, Oregon. Are you willing and able to work from this campus location?
  • Yes
  • No

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