Title: Specialist, Clinical & Faculty Affairs
Job: Specialist, Clinical & Faculty Affairs
Work Location: Qatar
Organization: Clinical and Faculty Affairs Division
Work Days: Sunday-Thursday
Sponsorship Eligibility: Yes
Classification: Full Time
Posting End Date: 06/21/2025
Position Summary
This position handles the office of clinical and faculty affairs operations involving appointment, reappointment, promotions, and termination of faculty staff and affiliates, including clinical privileging and licensing processes and CPD-related activities.
Job Responsibilities
- Implements all activities related to appointment, reappointment, promotions, and termination of WCM-Q based faculty and those at the affiliated institutions.
- Implements all activities related to hospital privileging and clinical licensing for WCM-Q based faculty and visiting faculty.
- Implements the faculty recruitment process by posting jobs, collating, and screening the applications, facilitating the interview process, collating committee feedback, and communicating with candidates as needed.
- Informs the HR team to initiate pre-onboarding (immigration, b/g check) and onboarding (relocation, orientation, housing, etc.) and updates candidates where required.
- Prepares the faculty contracts on pre-approved templates and liaises for all approvals.
- Reviews and validates the promotion dossier to ensure they comply with the WCMC faculty appointment and promotion requirements.
- Provides faculty appointment/promotion candidates with feedback and ensures successful completion of the dossier for submission.
- Writes evaluation letters in alignment with the WCMC Guidebook: Criteria for Faculty Appointment and Promotion.
- Works on the internal process for faculty termination and informs required stakeholders.
- Establishes liaison with various medical institutes like Sidra, HMC, etc., for faculty appointments of their medical staff and hospital privileges for WCM-Q-based faculty and visiting clinical faculty.
- Studies the process of obtaining hospital privileges at each affiliated hospital and ensures compliance with the requirements.
- Acts as a Liaison Officer to QCHP for operational issues and ensures compliance with QCHP criteria for the QML (Qatar Medical Licensing) process, including initial applications and reappointments of WCM-Q faculty.
- Implements promotion seminars, workshops, and other events conducted by the office, including preparation of CPD accreditation applications.
- Provides support to faculty in maintaining their clinical privileges.
- Oversees data storage for the unit, complying with the record management policy. Works on survey assessments and faculty data and develops reports.
- Checks available budget and other approvals before posting an academic job and follows up with the unit in case of discrepancies.
- Assists in preparing the units' annual plan, including but not limited to budgeting, faculty salary benchmarking, and planning for events and activities hosted by the team.
- Oversees system-related issues and contributes to website and intranet content development and update.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Health Sciences, or any other field with discipline with 5 - 6 years of related experience.
Prior experience working in an academic or medical environment is preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to exercise judgment based on established criteria.
- Diligent with an ability to multi-task within demanding timeframes.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Service-oriented with good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Well-versed in written and spoken English.
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
- Able to handle confidential and sensitive information with integrity and discretion.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite of products including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Licenses and Certifications
Working Conditions/Physical Demands
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar was established in 2001 as a partnership between Cornell University and Qatar Foundation (QF). The first medical school in Qatar and a pioneer of coeducation at the university level, WCM-Q offers an integrated Six-Year Medical Program that incorporates pre-medical and medical studies and leads to the Cornell University M.D. degree.
Teaching is by Cornell and Weill Cornell faculty, including physicians at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) who hold Weill Cornell appointments. Enrollment has grown rapidly from 25 first-year pre-medical students in the fall of 2002 to over 300 students from more than 30 countries today.
WCM-Q is part of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, which was founded over 100 years ago, and shares the same mission:
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to provide the finest education possible for medical students
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to conduct research at the cutting edge of knowledge
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to improve healthcare both now and for future generations
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to provide the highest quality of care to the community
WCM-Q’s home city is Doha, a thriving cosmopolitan metropolis with a culturally diverse population, a rapidly growing economy, and modern infrastructure. WCM-Q is a member of Qatar Foundation, a not-for-profit organization with multiple centers focused on education, research and innovation, and community development. WCM-Q is located within Education City, the flagship development of QF, which occupies more than 12 square kilometers and is home to some of the world’s leading educational institutions, including Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and overseas campuses of elite universities, such as VCUarts Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Northwestern Qatar, Georgetown University in Qatar, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, and HEC Paris in Qatar.
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled employer.