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Vice Dean, Education

By hkalansu | June 5, 2025

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC) invites applications for the position of Vice Dean, Education. This is a 0.8 FTE (part-time) position for a five (5) year term with the possibility of renewal, subject to satisfactory review. The position is expected to be filled by a candidate internal to UBC who currently holds a clinical or tenure stream faculty appointment at UBC. The anticipated start date is September 1, 2025, or upon a date to be mutually agreed.

The UBC Faculty of Medicine is committed to fostering excellence in education, research, and service that contributes to the health of individuals and communities locally, nationally, and internationally. The Faculty of Medicine, together with its partners including British Columbia’s health authorities, provides innovative programs in the areas of health and life sciences through a province-wide delivery model. The Faculty teaches students at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels and generates more than $450 million in research funding each year.

Reporting to the Dean of Medicine, the Vice Dean, Education will work closely with the Senior Director, Education Programs & Services, and other members of the Dean’s Executive team as well as academic leaders and various partners across the Faculty, University, distributed medical and health professional programs, affiliated partner institutions, and government to align and integrate health education efforts within the Faculty of Medicine. The Vice Dean, Education will provide strategic leadership in advancing inclusive and culturally responsive educational programs, with a specific commitment to supporting Indigenous education, strengthening partnerships with Indigenous communities, and embedding Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and learning across curricula. In addition, the individual will also provide strategic advice and collaborate with Department Heads and School Directors to address the needs of academic units, ensuring that educational programs are high-quality, innovative, effective, inclusive, and align with the Faculty’s role in training health care professionals for British Columbia and Canada.

The Vice Dean, Education will provide leadership by ensuring the education portfolio is advancing the Faculty’s vision and strategic plan, in alignment with the strategic direction of the University. The incumbent will foster and maintain an environment that promotes the Faculty’s values of respect, integrity, compassion, collaboration and equity where civility, diversity, opportunity, and inclusion are valued and central to all encounters across the Faculty, the University, and the communities.

The successful candidate will hold an MD or equivalent, a proven track record in senior leadership roles within a clinical or academic setting and have demonstrated success in supporting the career development and mentorship of diverse faculty members. The successful candidate will have strong administrative leadership experience with an understanding of undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate medical education, health professional programs, research, academic medicine and clinical care. The successful candidate will also have experience in strategic planning and implementation, as well as demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with a wide variety of interested parties. The candidate will have experience in negotiation, conflict engagement and management, leading organizational change particularly within large or complex academic environments, team building, fostering engagement, and promoting inclusivity across the working and learning environments. In addition, the successful candidate will demonstrate willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own.

A detailed job description is available in the Dean’s Office, Faculty of Medicine for those who wish to review it. Please inquire at the email address below. Candidates who bring diverse perspectives and lived experiences are encouraged to apply as we strive to enhance diversity, inclusiveness, socio-cultural representation, and perspective of the Faculty.

An application package should include: 1) a detailed curriculum vitae that addresses (a) scholarly, professional and creative work, (b) teaching (including summary of academic and/ or clinical teaching) and educational leadership responsibilities, such as contributions to curriculum and learning initiatives, (c) administrative service and experience as they relate to the education portfolio, and (d) publications record; 2) a brief statement of your current or previous contributions to advancing anti-racism, equity, diversity, decolonization, Indigenization and inclusion in an academic, professional, or community context; and 3) names of four references. Applications should be directed to:

Dermot Kelleher, MD, FMedSci
Dean, Faculty of Medicine
Vice President, Health, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
c/o Ms. Alyssa Gamberg, Manager, Faculty Appointments and Recruitment
Email: fom.searches@ubc.ca
Subject Line: Vice Dean, Education

Should you have any queries around this position, please contact the Manager, Faculty Appointments and Recruitment at fom.searches@ubc.ca.

Review of applications will begin July 5, 2025 and continue until the position is filled.

We invite applications from qualified candidates who share our commitment to employment equity and inclusive excellence, and we welcome applications from candidates belonging to historically, persistently, or systemically marginalized groups: Indigenous (First Nation, Métis, Inuit) Peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women, 2SLGBTQIA+ people and trans and non-binary people.

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and equitable work environment for all members of its workforce. An inclusive work environment presumes an environment where differences are appreciated, recognized, and integrated into current structures, planning, and decision-making modes. Within this hiring process we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable process for all candidates (including but not limited to people with disabilities). Confidential accommodations are available on request. Please contact Alyssa Gamberg via email at fom.searches@ubc.ca.

To learn more about UBC’s Center for Workplace Accessibility, visit the website here https://hr.ubc.ca/CWA.

With gratitude, we acknowledge that the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and its distributed programs, which include four university academic campuses, are located on traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of First Nations Peoples and communities around the province.

UBC — One of the World's Leading Universities. As one of the world's leading universities, the University of British Columbia creates an exceptional learning environment that fosters global citizenship, advances a civil and sustainable society, and supports outstanding research to serve the people of British Columbia, Canada and the world.

Our Vision: To Transform Health for Everyone.

Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across British Columbia, more than 12,000 faculty and staff are training the next generation of doctors and health care professionals, making remarkable discoveries, and helping to create the pathways to better health for our communities at home and around the world.

The Faculty — comprised of approximately 2,200 administrative support, technical/research and management and professional staff, as well approximately 650 full-time academic and over 10,000 clinical faculty members — is composed of 19 academic basic science and/or clinical departments, three schools, and 24 research centres and institutes. Together with its University and Health Authority partners, the Faculty delivers innovative programs and conducts research in the areas of health and life sciences. Faculty, staff and trainees are located at university campuses, clinical academic campuses in hospital settings and other regionally based centres across the province.

UBC hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. All qualifies persons are encouraged to apply. Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.