We seek faculty to serve as Directors of Differences Matter. The leadership of the Differences Matter initiative is structured as a faculty-staff dyad whereby faculty and staff serve as equal partners and leaders. Current faculty leaders will end their term in June 2025, and the next cohort of faculty leaders will be recruited to start in July 2025. Current faculty leaders are eligible for re-appointment but must re-apply. Current staff leaders will continue their term through June 2027. 

About Differences Matter
Through the Differences Matter 2027 initiative, the School of Medicine will transform existing structures to sustain the successes of Differences Matter 2020 and will implement new initiatives that promote a culture of respect, inclusion, and opportunity throughout the School. This is a unique and powerful opportunity for anyone committed to fostering a professional environment that enhances opportunity, engagement, and belonging. Faculty leaders will be provided 20% release time, and the term will be two years in duration.  

Time, Effort and Qualifications
Faculty must commit to the time and effort required to complete the work which includes, but is not limited to:

  • Recruiting, assembling and mentoring stakeholder input groups to engage the UCSF community
  • Attending a monthly 2-hour work in progress meeting with other Directors and team leaders on the second Tuesday of each month

Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated commitment to and impact in advancing DEIAB activities (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Anti-oppression and Belonging)
  • Ability to commit the time required to accomplish goals
  • History of effective teamwork and adaptive leadership
  • Demonstrated ability to work across stakeholder groups and organizational units
  • Strongest candidates will have been at UCSF for 5 years or more

Interested faculty, please apply online for one of the positions listed below; the deadline for applications is April 4, 2025. Contact Differences Matter with questions.

Directors, Diversify Medicine

Ensuring excellence in academic medicine requires a commitment to professional growth, innovation, and fostering an environment where all individuals can contribute to their fullest potential. The Co-Directors of Diversify Medicine will serve an important role by expanding the faculty and leadership workforce. The Directors will work to advance the following objectives:

  1. Strengthen the UCSF student to UCSF resident and postdoctoral fellow pathways and support all trainees in exploring careers in academic medicine.
  2. Strengthen the trainee to faculty pathways and support trainees in choosing careers in academic medicine and science into enduring faculty positions at UCSF.
  3. Incentivize the recruitment of faculty, including those from historically excluded groups in medicine and science, into enduring faculty positions at UCSF.
  4. Create communities of practice, support, mentorship and sponsorship for faculty and learners so that all may thrive.
  5. Support participation of faculty members in programs that spotlight talents and prepare them for academic success and institutional leadership
  6. Review structures of advancement, promotion and leadership selection to ensure equitable opportunity and to optimize leadership talents in all disciplines and units.  
Directors, Innovate Collection and Use of Data for Equity

The Co-Directors to Innovate Collection and Use of Data for Equity will serve an important role by innovating how we collect and use sociodemographic data and data on social drivers of health to dismantle systems of oppression in health, healthcare, research, medical education, and workplace culture at UCSF. Serving as a liaison and collaborative partner to others working in this area, the Directors will work to advance the following objectives:

  1. Advance collection and use of data for equity in clinical care, research activities, and graduate education.
  2. Reduce roadblocks to health equity in patient care and research.
Directors, Build Anti-racism/Anti-oppression Expertise

A culture of respect, inclusion, and opportunity is essential to our success as one of the nation's leading academic health systems. The Co-Directors of Build Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression Expertise will play a pivotal role in identifying the competencies and training our faculty, staff, leaders and learners need to build a more equitable and inclusive institution that fosters belonging. The Directors will work to advance the following objectives:

  1. Define and disseminate competencies in anti-oppressive, pro-belonging work by institutional role for leaders, faculty, staff and all learners.
  2. Develop sustainable organizational capacity to foster anti-racism and anti-oppressive expertise in the broader UCSF School of Medicine community​.​​​​​​