Program Director of Healthcare Job Opening

Position Description

We currently have an opening for a Program Director of Healthcare at our Fresno, CA Campus. This position is responsible for the overall quality of teaching and learning including curriculum, faculty, and students within the healthcare program and works in close collaboration with campus leadership and faculty as part of a campus team-wide effort to continuously improve student retention and student leaning outcomes (SLOs).

The key responsibilities of this role include:

Recruit, screen, hire, train, develop, observe, mentor, coach, and evaluate healthcare faculty as needed to maintain the overall quality and integrity of teaching and learning within the program.

Actively participate in the college’s student retention management program and achieve annual campus quarterly retention targets for the healthcare program.

Works with the Director of Academic Affairs and other campus academic affairs department staff to plan and implement student activities, including Orientation and Graduation.

Provide input for the quarterly healthcare program Master Schedule including identifying course offerings and scheduling students for appropriate classes as needed to maintain an effective and efficient course schedule that keeps student on track for graduation and falls within budgeting guidelines.

Implement the Heald plan for the assessment of student learning outcomes and support services including participation in systematic program review for the healthcare program.

Assign faculty to courses, staff classes with current instructors, and provide substitutes when necessary.

Conducts all Healthcare education faculty observations and evaluations.

Work with students for any requested schedule changes prior to add/drop period of quarter.

Develop a positive classroom learning environment to insure high rates of student success.

Provide regularly scheduled academic advising to students within the healthcare program.

Participate in curriculum design and development activities including actively working with CAO and the other campus faulty and program directors as needed to maintain the overall quality and integrity of the curriculum for the healthcare program.

In conjunction with corporate academic affairs, develop healthcare program articulation agreements.

Implement new or revised curriculum on campus including text book selection and selection of equipment and supplies.

Ensure program-level compliance with all internal academic policies and procedures and all applicable accrediting standards, state licensing requirements, FERPA, and all other applicable external rules and regulations.

Recruit participants and actively participate in employer advisory committees and other activities designed to solicit input into curriculum and build relationships with the employers and potential employers or Heald graduates.

Respond to industry needs within campus’s region with community involvement and the development and management of student internships.

Insure Learning Experience Survey is administered quarterly, provide all survey results to faculty, and assist faculty in improving teaching and student learning outcomes.

Assist Director of Academic Affairs with development of annual program budget and operating within budget guidelines.

Identify and develop externship sites and extern agreements. Monitor and supervise externship activities and ensure compliance with extern site agreements.

All Program Directors have teaching responsibilities, with teaching load determined by the numbers of active students in their designated discipline.

To successfully fulfill this function, the following is required:

An earned baccalaureate degree and the appropriate demonstrable current professional level experience in the assigned field.

CMA/RMA, RN, or Physician with a minimum of three (3) years experience in healthcare, including a minimum of 40 hours of experience in an ambulatory healthcare setting performing or observing administrative and clinical procedures performed by medical assistants.

Heald College offers a competitive salary structure and an attractive benefits package that includes medical / dental / vision coverage, tuition reimbursement plan, and a retirement savings 401(k) plan.

Heald College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This is a staff position.

Please send resumes to Carolyn_Pierce@heald.edu

Carolyn Pierce, MBA

Campus President

Heald College, 255 W. Bullard Ave., Fresno, CA  93704

phone:  559-438-4222    fax: 559-437-4183