Senior Director, Clinical Education & Workforce Development

About the role

Essen Health Care is the largest privately held, multispecialty medical group in New York, providing high-quality, compassionate care to some of the state’s most vulnerable and underserved residents. Founded in 1999, we’ve grown from a single primary care office into a network of 50+ locations offering urgent care, primary care and specialty services, from women’s health to endocrinology and psychiatry. We also provide nursing home support, care management, and in-home care through our Essen House Calls program. Guided by a Population Health model, our team of 500+ providers deliver care in-person, at home, or via telehealth, ensuring patients get the support they need when and where they need it. We’re looking for talented, motivated individuals to join our growing team. Whether you’re a medical provider, administrator, or operations professional, there’s a career here for you. Join us in making a real difference in the health of our community.

Position Title: Senior Director, Clinical Education & Workforce Development
Department: Academics
Reports To: Chief People Officer
Location: Bronx, NY

Position Summary: The Senior Director of Clinical Education & Workforce Development provides strategic and operational leadership for Essen Health Care’s Academics Department, workforce development portfolio, and Centers of Excellence (CoEs). This leader is responsible for designing, expanding, and evaluating clinical and non-clinical education programs that create sustainable talent pipelines and prepare students, trainees, and emerging professionals to meet the organization’s current and future workforce needs. Working across Academics, clinical operations, Talent Acquisition, People & Culture, and executive leadership, the Senior Director translates organizational workforce priorities into scalable academic partnerships, experiential learning opportunities, and career pathways. The role requires a hands-on leader who can move comfortably between strategy, program execution, stakeholder management, compliance, data analysis, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the department’s clinical education and workforce development strategy in alignment with Essen’s organizational goals and anticipated workforce needs.
• Lead the design, implementation, expansion, and evaluation of workforce programs across existing and emerging Centers of Excellence.
• Assess healthcare trends, clinical service-line priorities, and workforce gaps to recommend new training models, academic pathways, and CoE initiatives.
• Establish annual program goals, implementation plans, performance measures, and continuous-improvement priorities.
• Prepare business cases, proposals, and executive-level presentations to support program expansion, resources, and strategic decisions.
• Cultivate and manage strategic relationships with universities, colleges, medical and allied health programs, training institutions, community organizations, and other workforce partners.
• Negotiate and operationalize partnership arrangements in coordination with legal, compliance, clinical, and administrative stakeholders.
• Build scalable pipelines for clinical and non-clinical talent through internships, externships, rotations, shadowing, fellowships, bridge programs, apprenticeships, and other experiential learning models.
• Represent Essen at academic, workforce, and community events to strengthen visibility, engagement, and recruitment pipelines.
• Provide oversight of program operations, including cohort planning, schedules, learning experiences, faculty and preceptor assignments, training materials, onboarding, and participant progression.
• Create and maintain standardized policies, procedures, documentation, and service expectations across academic