Director of Education

Job Description Summary:

Job Description:

The Director of Education is responsible for the following activities as described under the outlined domains, and other activities as deemed necessary by the Executive Director:

 Curriculum

• Instructional and Clinical Team Oversight
  • Meet with team members weekly to assess progress and problem solve
  • Provide individual feedback and mentoring to the instructional team members, including yearly performance assessments and ongoing employee development in the areas of instruction, professional development, and others
  • Complete timesheets, approves PTO and other management functions for the instructional team, including approval of continuing education activities required for instructional team certification or licensure renewals
  • Responsible in the hiring of all instructional team members in collaboration with NIMAA’s Executive Director and other leaders and Human Resources
• Curriculum Design and Implementation Oversight in collaboration with NIMAA’s Clinical Director
  • Ensure that course content reflects the desired content for NIMAA
  • Work with instructors and guest faculty to shape content and format of all curriculum for NIMAA
  • Ensure that content reflects appropriate hours for all aspects of curriculum
  • Partner with the Program/Curriculum Director to regularly assess, develop and implement curriculum
  • Review and approve the selection of course resources (textbook and online)
  • Ensure that all online resources (Student Information System, Connect and others) are in place and working properly
• Policy
  • Develops and refines all policies relating to grading, student externship attendance/experience, instruction/curriculum policies, instructional team JDs, and others
  • Ensures all policies and practices are compliant with regulatory and accreditation requirements
  • Makes catalog revisions and updates to academic portions and policies as needed
• Student Orientation
  • Create template for orientation to be followed by organizations
  • Lead the planning of CHCI’s EO orientation
  • Participate in CHCI and NIMAA National Orientation efforts
  • Collaborates with the team lead for the online learning system to create accounts for students, preceptors and others in NIMAA’s online systems, including ensuring that NIMAA properly communicates to students their individual information and addressing ongoing account management
• Seminars (co-lead with NIMAA’s Clinical Director)
  • Organize sequence of seminars in each term and link to online curriculum
  • Prepare slides in coordination with lead presenter
  • Design and implement the roles during each seminar, including lead presenter, and group discussion leaders among others
  • Prepare polling questions
  • Run/facilitate seminar
• Interactive Week
  • Prepare/revise NIMAA’s simulation cases as needed and in collaboration with the Clinical Director
  • Establish and implement structure for which students/groups are assigned to each case
  • Revise communication on logistics of case work
  • Work with instructors on making sure student groups have what they need to complete case assignment
  • Review and grade as written case summaries and video case presentations
• Grading
  • Oversee policy/process for developing grades for every student (see Policy section above)
  • Ensure that process is working correctly through periodic audits and routine meetings with instructional staff
  • Ensure that instructors are communicating with students about grades in a timely manner
  • Assist the instructors in creating plans for students in danger of or on formal performance improvement plans or in an official probation status
  • Field student complaints as appropriate
• Evaluation
  • Implement evaluation plan for:
    • Seminars
    • Curriculum and instructors
    • Externship experience
  • Make sure response rates are as high as possible
  • Analyze and summarize evaluation data
  • Report on results to appropriate stakeholders
  • Collaborate with other NIMAA leaders to disseminate NIMAA’s findings and outcomes to promote knowledge and reputation of NIMAA nationally
• Certification Exam
  • Work with instructors to design and implement online resources for exam practice
  • Ensure that all organizations have what they need to have students sit for the exam prior to graduation
  • Manages third-party vendor relationship to ensure student access to prep materials

Technology

• Online Learning Management System (LMS)
  • Lead the work with eThink and other cons