Assistant Dean of Clinical Skills & Simulation Education

About the Opportunity

ABOUT NORTHEASTERN

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Arlington, Charlotte, North Carolina; Miami; London; Portland, Maine; Oakland; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern’s comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

The Bouvé College of Health Sciences has over 250 faculty members, with approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students. It is the leading national model for education and research in the health, psychosocial and biomedical sciences and supports the University’s mission of educating students for a life of fulfillment and accomplishment and creating and translating knowledge to meet global and societal needs.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Reporting to the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, the Assistant Dean of Clinical Skills & Simulation Education will provide innovative educational and administrative leadership to Bouvé College of Health Sciences (BCHS)-operated educational spaces and technologies including: the human anatomy laboratory, skills lab classrooms and the Goldstein simulation center. This person would have the opportunity to extend leadership throughout the Northeastern University global network, including Massachusetts, North Carolina, and California campus locations among others. The position will expand the use of immersive technologies to augment and extend learning across the college network. Programs will span the continuum of skills-based lifelong learning including undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education (credit bearing and non-credit levels).

At Northeastern University, we embrace a culture of respect, where each person is valued for their contribution and is treated fairly. We support a culture that does not tolerate any form of discrimination and where each person may belong. We strive to have a membership where each person is trained and mentored to promote their success.

Leadership and Strategy:

• Contribute to the formulation of BCHS strategy in experiential learning, with a focus on achieving goals in the areas of clinical skills training and simulation including the use of virtual reality platforms, interprofessional activities, and other media and technologies in health professions education.

• Implement a framework for the BCHS experiential learning strategy to be implemented across Northeastern’s global university system as appropriate.

• Forge partnerships across sectors and institutions to advance the BCHS strategy.

Educational programs:

• Develop unit-based faculty expertise and implement models to deliver high quality education via courses and programs in the human anatomy labs, clinical skills labs, simulation training centers, and other learning spaces throughout BCHS and across the NU global network.

• Oversee the college-wide Standardized Patient (SP) program.  

• Assist in developing policies and procedures of relevant areas within BCHS.

Research and Funding:

• Seek grant funding to support experiential and skills-based programming in the college and across the global network.

• Engage in research or scholarship in area of expertise.

• Participate in philanthropic opportunities to support the BCHS strategy.

Administrative and Personnel Management:

• Supervise the Boston-based Director of BCHS Simulation and simulation faculty leads and staff in network campuses including Charlotte NC, Burlington MA and other sites as developed.

• Collaborate with department chairs and unit leaders to optimize faculty and staff participation in college anatomy, simulation and skills lab spaces.

• Manage staff by defining