Externship Coordinator

You will make an impact by:

• Coordinating, facilitating, and supervising the externship training, including student transition from class work to externship to graduate in preparation for placements.
• Locating, maintaining and acquiring new externship sites and contracts; scheduling and supervising students' externship assignments; advising students and providing classroom instruction in accordance with the program's objectives.
• Assisting students in gaining meaningful employment in jobs applicable to their field of study. Guiding students with the job search process, including teaching workshops and critiquing resumes.
• Providing excellent customer service to current and graduating students in accordance with the mission and purpose of the college.
• Coordinating and assisting graduates with job interviews and obtaining entry-level healthcare career opportunities.

Your Experience Includes:

• Establishes, acquires, and maintains contracts with extern sites using the approved college agreement; maintains accurate extern site information database, including contact information and specific contractual agreement termination and expiration dates, and initiates renewal process timely.
• Maintains on-going contact with local employers to obtain information on externship opportunities. Researches and develops new externship sites with new employers. Develops and enhances working relationships, facilitates student employment opportunities, and ensures positive long-term relationships with employers.
• Works with extern staff to clarify policies and procedures specific to facility.
• Places predetermined number of students per week into externship opportunities with local employers.
• Achieves the established program extern-to-placement conversion percentage goals.
• Maintains established department policies and procedures; attends in-services and other required meetings.
• Maintains confidentiality of all student, associate, and/or college information as required.
• Advises students about externship site choices and assigns students to extern sites as appropriate.
• Makes sure to monitor sites, including phone or on-site visits, mediate conflicts, establish specific learning objectives, determine and record attendance concerns.
• Tracks externship attendance and ensures that all extern assignments are completed as determined by the program.
• Coordinates a plan to best observe, instruct, and evaluate students' learning and practical skills, which includes a direct observation assessment of skills in applicable settings for related areas of instruction.
• Apprises extern staff of student objectives in each program area.
• Validates with extern staff the effectiveness of student placement and progress in meeting mutually established objectives to ensure that the experience is adequate, and that the student is achieving a satisfactory level of performance.

Education:

• A high school graduate or equivalent required.
• Must be a graduate from a program accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in the specialty field or the subject area in which they teach.