Responsible for the overall direction, operations, and management of the Office of Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum team. Provides leadership in supporting the educational infrastructure for all aspects of undergraduate medical education curriculum. This position reports to the Associate Dean for Curriculum and the Associate Vice President of MD Program Administration.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s preferred; 3+ years of direct experience in area of medical education administration.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. Establishes, implements, and directs the application of strategic direction and operating processes, procedures, and policies for the curriculum-related management of education faculty and staff and strengthening of the medical school as it relates to curriculum management, evaluation and enhancement.

2. Maintains oversight and responsibility for all functional areas of the curriculum for the Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) program team, including assessment and evaluation, curriculum coordination for Foundations, Longitudinal, Immersion and Individualization, learning technology, and program administration. Maintains oversight of staff for operations and planning with faculty.

3. Provides guidance and management for the curriculum group in UME. Oversees day-to-day operations and implementation of the undergraduate medical education (UME) program. In collaboration with program leadership, establishes and oversees strategic direction to ensure successful implementation of program objectives.

4. Responsible for personnel management for curriculum and assessment team hiring, onboarding, staff evaluations, reviews, and human resource-related functions

5. Collaborates with the Director in Charlotte to support the strategic oversight of the MD Curriculum at the regional medical campus, including the quality and content of the educational program and providing enhancements to the process and outcomes of teaching and learning. Makes recommendation for curriculum changes based on achievement of program outcomes and operations.

6. Works with senior leadership of UME to establish mission and vision of UME program curriculum in support of and in alignment with the School of Medicine strategic direction. Provides leadership, oversight, and project management for the development and implementation of innovative curriculum design for faculty teams to implement curricular initiatives.

7. Maintains budgetary oversight for MD program curriculum delivery and assessment. Oversees timely transfer of funds to support curriculum delivery.

8. Maintains oversight responsibility for the quality and content of the UME program curriculum, striving continually to enhance the process, policies and procedures to ensure anticipated outcomes of the teaching and learning.

9. Develops project plans related to curriculum innovation, change management, and strategic planning.

10. Researches, analyzes, reports and develops action plans on complex issues including adherence to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) requirements and cross-over between UME and other medical school program accreditation needs.

11. Performs curriculum audits to ensure the requirements of the UME curriculum as dictated by LCME are being met; plans, directs and leads continuous quality improvement efforts using internal and national assessment data.

12. Seeks, develops, and implements interdisciplinary approaches and opportunities to collaborate and align resources, strategies, and policies with other medical school programs. Serves as liaison to other school of medicine programs, by way of committees and teams.

13. In collaboration with senior program leadership, identifies strategic initiatives and develops approach to funding to meet program objectives. Maintains oversight and management of budget expenditures.

14. Serves as an ex- officio member of the UME Curriculum Committee (UMECC) and other institutional committees. Serves as chair for Medical Education Operations Subcommittee (MEOS).

15. Performs other duties related to the mission of the Office of UME.

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