Instructor, Diabetes Certificate Programs

About the role

The Instructor for Diabetes Certificate Programs is a subject matter expert responsible for facilitating and instructing the suite of Diabetes Essentials Certificate programs, including tracks for paraprofessionals, clinicians, and specialty tracks. This position reports directly to the Executive Director for the Center for Professional and Continuing Education.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert, the instructor will be responsible for facilitation and instruction of all diabetes continuing education programs in an online setting.
• Ensure curriculum for the Clinical and Paraprofessional Diabetes Certificates are current and relevant.
• Serve as a contact for prospective and current students in the program.
• Engage with prospective students where applicable.
• Ongoing assessment of program needs and course performance, utilizing course evaluations and student feedback to provide updates to course content if needed.
• Maintain records of essential program information including spreadsheets, budgets, and logs of previous programs and year’s activities.
• Serve as primary contact for Continuing Medical Education (CME) partnership and other relevant industry organizations where subject matter expertise is required (University of California San Francisco (UCSF), National Association of Social Workers (NASW)).
• Aid in the collection of course data for various unit publications as well as granting funding requirements.
• Work as liaison to academic units and other stakeholders regarding course additions, cancellations, revisions, etc. to serve overall student needs.
• Monitor and answer programming inquiries.
• Perform miscellaneous other duties and special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Master’s or advanced degree in a healthcare discipline.
• A minimum of 2 years of clinical experience.
• Demonstrated Expertise in Diabetes Education.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering a caring and rigorous educational environment.
• Demonstrated ability to collaboratively engage with colleagues in innovative program development and teaching.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and working with students from multicultural communities.
• Demonstrated interest and experience in working in clinical partnership, as well as partnerships with schools, community groups, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations, as appropriate to the position.
• Demonstrated successful in-person, hybrid, and/or online teaching or learning experience.