department head
Unit's top administrator
A department head is the person in charge of a division within an organization—a company, university, or government agency.
The title implies both administrative authority and subject-matter expertise: She's the department head for cardiology.
In academic settings, department heads manage faculty, budgets, and curriculum for their discipline.
One who leads
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- supervisorOne who directs workers
- divisionSplitting into parts
- branchDivision or woody limb
office · headquarters · company · firm · business · enterprise · institution · bureau
Trusted wisdom-giving advisor
- guideLeader or instruction book
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- leadDense metal, symbol Pb
- coachOne who instructs
direct · decision-maker · figurehead · spokesperson · visionary · strategist · motivate · empower
Overseeing people or processes
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
scheduling · budgeting · resource allocation · reporting · staff meetings · hiring · performance reviews · workflow
Senior university teacher
- deanSenior academic administrator
- tenureProtected employment status
- facultyInherent power or ability
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
syllabus · lectures · seminar · research · thesis · dissertation · undergraduate · graduate
Supervision or inadvertent omission
- dutyRequired moral task
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- answerabilityObligation to explain oneself
stewardship · ethics · integrity · compliance · transparency · fiduciary · governance
director
One who leads
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- supervisorOne who directs workers
- divisionSplitting into parts
branch · office · headquarters · company · firm · business · enterprise · institution · bureau · unit
mentor
Trusted wisdom-giving advisor
coach · direct · decision-maker · figurehead · spokesperson · visionary · strategist · motivate · empower · inspire
supervision
Overseeing people or processes
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
oversight · scheduling · budgeting · resource allocation · reporting · staff meetings · hiring · performance reviews · workflow · personnel
professor
Senior university teacher
curriculum · syllabus · lectures · seminar · research · thesis · dissertation · undergraduate · graduate · postdoctoral
oversight
Supervision or inadvertent omission
- dutyRequired moral task
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- obligationRequired task or commitment
answerability · stewardship · ethics · integrity · compliance · transparency · fiduciary · governance
- hierarchyrank, ranked, authority, command, tiered
- Medical Leaderschief medical officer, CMO, medical director, chief of staff, chief of medicine
- employmentjob, jobs, career, careers, interview
- high schoolhigh school, teachers, classroom, classrooms, principal
- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
- managementmanagers, management, executives, boss, supervisors
department headsubordinate
One lower in rank
intern · new hire · trainee · individual contributor · underling
department headdirect report
Employee under one's supervision
follower · team member · report · rank-and-file · charge
head, forehead, heading, department, departure, departed, header, departing, departs