The newly formed Cyber Systems Department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) is seeking applications from highly qualified candidates for a newly created position entitled the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative Chair of Population Health. The Chair will fulfill an integrative role within the University of Nebraska providing leadership, strategic planning, and advocacy in an effort to advance population health research, interprofessional education, and collaborative practice. The position represents a unique partnership with the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative, a division of Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NEHII), and the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK). The Chair will work directly with the Chief Academic Program Officer of NEHII to establish an annual research agenda for population health, will oversee a budget and have access to a unique, comprehensive dataset designed to support this research agenda, and will serve on the Board of the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative. It is envisioned that the Chair’s population health research agenda will draw from new approaches in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data visualization aimed at analyzing large scale social, economic, and progressive healthcare data and resulting in translational research and practical solutions to a wide variety of issues related to population health. In general, data science advocacy across many domains is an important part of the position, as the Chair’s leadership will play a critical role in the growth of data science at UNK. The Chair will be part of the Cyber Systems Department and will support the data science curriculum for UNK’s College of Business and Technology (CBT). Currently CBT has programs accredited by AACSB, ATMAE, and CIDA, with significant progress toward ABET accreditation as well.

The Chair will be responsible for the following:
• Developing and maintaining close working relationships with all relevant University units, NEHII, and external stakeholders to ensure the development and implementation of quality interprofessional and population health education and research
• Developing and supporting a strategic plan for population health
• Leveraging existing internal expertise and activities, and nurturing new initiatives to further the population health research agenda and activities
• Advocating for data science curricula across university disciplines
• Fostering high quality personnel performance by hiring, supervising, and evaluating the performance of NEHII fellows, students, and staff
• Overseeing reporting and research projects
• Teaching (residential and online; undergraduate and graduate) and advancing the Cyber Systems Department’s vision of developing world class research and educational facilities as a value proposition for students, alumni, and the government /business communities in which it operates
• Planning and controlling expenditures within budgetary constraints
• Adjusting leadership style as needed to achieve results

The Chair will be required to work with the Collaborative in the following capacity:
• The Chair will be on the Board of Directors of the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative, Inc. (Collaborative), and IRC Section 501©(3) exempt entity and will commit to attending bi-monthly meetings and providing guidance and direction for the Collaborative operation.
• The Chair will be on a Committee that will review potential projects and make decisions on what projects the Collaborative will work on/deny.
• The Chair will encourage the University and colleagues to use the Collaborative in their research and submit proposals through the Foundation Application Portal for the use of the data to further the academic mission.
• The Chair will help coordinate interested students who would like to conduct an internship at the Collaborative.
• The Chair will spend a percentage of his/her time performing services for the Collaborative, providing consultation and expertise as needed along-side the Collaborative employees on specified projects.