Program Director - Student Affairs (School of Medicine)

About the role

The Program Director - Student Affairs (School of Medicine) will execute effective and innovative program management for the tri-campus learning communities, collaborating with multi-level stakeholders to architect the professional development curriculum and associated programming.

Responsibilities

• Annual recruitment, hiring, on-boarding, faculty development and succession planning for all Learning Community faculty.
• Generate agendas and co-facilitate monthly leadership meetings.
• Operationalize student leadership selection and training.
• Create a focus and prioritization of student academic coaching to foster professional identity formation, academic progression, and student well-being.
• Prepare weekly communique to tri-campus society faculty.
• Develop content and facilitator guides for group coaching sessions.
• Manage the faculty and student coaching dashboard (KACES), collaborating with programmers to optimize the delivery of coaching for student success and compliance.
• Steward of the Medical Academic Societies annual endowment, ensuring equitable fund distribution across the three campuses.
• Maintain annual budget and prepare and present annual Medical Academic Societies report to Executive Dean and other SOM leadership.
• Serve on the Student Promotions Committee as a liaison to the Society Director team/Assistant Deans for Student Affairs.

Student Professional Development

Execute methods for delivering educational programs to students and faculty, including orientations, professional development curriculum, student wellness and mental health programming, and society faculty development.

• Organize the student professional development curriculum, recruiting content experts, writing presentations, content development and delivery.
• Design and orchestrate the School of Medicine policy and procedure compliance training modules.
• Serve as primary lead for student compliance, remediating non-compliance in collaboration with coaches.

Communication

Collaborate with cross-functional KUMC teams to prepare the KUSM monthly Monday Minute newsletter, delivering resources to learners to optimize student success and professional development.

• Maintain the Student Affairs SharePoint site with relevant student support resources.
• Annually collaborate with KUSM leadership to update pertinent materials regarding coaching requirements, policies and procedures, and mistreatment reporting.
• Create social media strategy and implementation for office Instagram account.

Student Affairs Assessment & Evaluation

Collaborate with KUSM Medical Education Division of Assessment & Evaluation to evaluate the learning communities program, including coaching, problem-based learning facilitation, and general program evaluation for students and faculty.

• Organize the tri-campus student affairs alignment and strategy working group to ensure alignment of services/programs offered and to establish best practices.
• Manage the AAMC KUSM platform to evaluate programs, review national survey data, and initiate CQI efforts.
• Execute campaigns to incentivize AAMC and KUSM survey completion.

Champion for the Learning Environment

Champion a safe learning environment with a prioritization of student education on discerning student mistreatment, reporting mechanisms, and preparation and dissemination of the annual student mistreatment report.

Student Travel and Assistance

Manage the Coach’s Fund for Emergency Assistance and the Ehrlich Travel Grant, processing applications, making determinations of awards, and communicating directly with students.

Other Committee Advisor/Lead

Serve as co-advisor and point person for Medical Student Assembly, the medical student governing body, and co-lead on the Kern National Network KUSM team.

Supervisory Duties

Provide executive oversight of event operations, front desk operations, and dean-level support to the program manager and administrative assistant.

Requirements

• 5 years of professional experience in academia or program management.
• Two years supervisory experience.
• Experience with content development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree.
• 5 years of managerial experience in a health professions student affairs setting.
• Experience in coaching.
• Experience with educational research.

Skills

• Interpersonal skills.
• Mentoring.
• Collaboration.

Benefits

Comprehensive Benefits Package including health, dental, and vision insurance, health expense accounts, employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans.

• Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays.
• One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment.
• A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $92,800.00 - $139,200.00, with a midpoint of $116,000.00.