Senior Director of Recruitment, Graduate Medical Education & Designated Institutional Officer

About the role

The Senior Director of Recruitment, GME and DIO is responsible for overseeing residency (GME) programs and managing relationships with affiliate programs. This role also involves recruiting and supporting qualified physician preceptors for clinical training, expanding and maintaining clinical training sites, and collaborating with external clinical partners.

Responsibilities

• Participate in personal professional development.
• Maintain ACGME accreditation and Osteopathic Recognition, establishing new and updated policies, procedures and practices as needed.
• Create a vision for residency faculty development within the context of ARCOM continuum of clinical education incorporating OMS3 and OMS4 with residents and attending physicians.
• Develop and manage finances dedicated to GME to implement educational programs for ARCOM, ensuring effective and efficient operational functions and procedures consistent with established college policies.
• Explore, evaluate, recruit and establish new clinical education sites and GME programs with an emphasis on sites in rural and underserved opportunities.
• Oversee and direct the collection and evaluation of data to ensure that GME programs and CME/Faculty Development programs are meeting their goals, supporting ARCOM's mission, values and goals, and operating consistent with established regulations, policy and procedures in the areas of clinical education and continuous faculty development programs.
• Evaluate and provide feedback to other members of the faculty as a component of the college's ongoing quality improvement and assessment program.
• Enhance individual teaching effectiveness by consulting with individual faculty to facilitate growth in appropriate pedagogy, curriculum design, and assessment of student learning.
• Provide oversight for and direction for a Continuous Quality Assessment and Quality Improvement process for the graduate medical educational components of ARCOM, its affiliates, and their clinical faculty, the clinical sites and the residents.
• Collaborate with the Office of Clinical Rotations to assess current and future preceptor needs based on curriculum requirements, student enrollment, and specialty distribution.
• Monitor preceptor capacity and retention trends; recommend strategies to improve recruitment and long-term engagement.
• Support and direct faculty development for ARCOM clinical faculty.
• Evaluate the performance of the clinical faculty of ARCOM annually or as indicated by policy, report evaluations to the Dean, make recommendations for discipline, promotion and recognition, and develop a culture of excellence, continuous improvement and advancement for each of the chairs.
• Assist the Associate Dean for Clinical Medicine in the direction of the clinical faculty at GME and clinical training sites so that they meet the accreditation standards of the ACGME and COCA and that competencies required and outcome objectives for clinical education are also met.
• Advocate for and advance the perceived value of and output of research and scholarly activity among the faculty and students of ARCOM through leadership, mentorship and participation.
• Advocate for and advance the prestige of ARCOM through scholarly publication and research.

Requirements

• Master’s degree.
• Knowledge and previous experience with ACGME standards and accreditation requirements.
• Prior academic experience in the residency (GME) or medical school setting.
• Demonstrated leadership, productivity and administrative experience in a professional, research or education setting.
• Strong skills with respect to teamwork, communication, staff management and supervision, analytic problems solving and education advocacy.
• Two years (3) experience as a recruiter or related support role.
• Ability to learn new software programs and stay current with evolving best practices in medical education.
• Advanced organizational and time management skills.
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to travel as needed.