PROGRAM COORDINATOR

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Harlingen, TX

Full-time

Harlingen, TX

Educational Services

About the position

To assist in the operation of Clinical Education, exercising independent judgment and authority as required. Responsible for all phases of Clinical Education, including budget recommendations, program selection, staff supervision, recommendations for future planning, and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates program to ensure that implementation and prescribed activities are carried out in accordance with specified objectives.
• Supervises and manages the day-to-day activities and personnel of the assigned program.
• Establishes student placement contracts and affiliation agreements with hospitals, clinics, and other clinical education facilities.
• Reviews and maintains affiliation agreements and reports of activities and recommends modifications to processes or procedures as required.
• Coordinates and maintains onboarding requirements for all affiliate hospitals and clinical sites including maintaining and updating immunization records required by facilities for the course of the student's enrollment in the clinical education program.
• Coordinates and facilitates activities to prepare podiatric students for clinical experience placement in clerkship, externship, and residency program.
• Completes, submits and coordinates all required academic data forms from all affiliated clinical sites.
• Prepares materials and coordinates educational activities that support the institutional curriculum in adherence to CPME requirements.
• Assists with the development and supervision of clinical schedules for the clinical education program.
• Organizes and coordinates orientation, training activities, and presentations for students and clinical faculty.
• Plan, develop, and organize student and faculty assessments in coordination with curriculum requirements.
• Conducts training or gives instruction regarding Clinical Education policies and procedures.
• Assists in coordinating, maintaining, and updating the credentialing of community/volunteer faculty for the clinical education program.
• Participates in budget planning in accordance with budget allocations for Clinical Education.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• Three (3) years of experience performing closely related duties, including program planning/coordination or related experience in the appropriate field of the program, or
• One (1) year of the required experience with a Master's degree, or
• Five (5) years of the required experience with an Associate Degree or 60 hours of College Credit, or
• Seven (7) years of the required experience with a High School Diploma or equivalent.