Associate Program Director of Healthcare - FNC

Do you like the stability of a company that has been around for over 145 years but the excitement and energy of a new company poised for growth? Do you enjoy your profession but really desire to make a difference in your community?

Heald College may be the right place for you. Heald College is a career college founded in 1863 that prepares students for academic, personal, and professional success through quality career- focused programs that develop skills to last a lifetime.

We are gearing up for a very exciting period in our long history and currently have an opening for an Associate Program Director of Healthcare at our Fresno Campus. As a member of the academic affairs department, this position works in conjunction with the Program Director of Healthcare and is responsible for the overall quality of teaching and learning, including curriculum, faculty, and students within the program. In close collaboration with campus leadership and faculty, the Associate Program Director serves as part of a campus team-wide effort to continuously improve student retention and student learning outcomes (SLOs).

The key responsibilities of this role include:

• Recruit, screen, hire, supervise, train, develop, observe, mentor, coach, and evaluate healthcare faculty as needed to maintain the overall quality and integrity of teaching and learning within the program.
• Actively participate in the college’s student retention management program and achieve annual campus quarterly retention targets for the healthcare program.
• Assist in planning and implementing student activities, including Student Orientation and Graduation.
• Provide input for the quarterly Master Schedule including identifying course offerings and scheduling students for appropriate classes as needed to maintain an effective and efficient course schedule that keeps student on track for graduation and falls within budgeting guidelines.
• Implement the Heald plan for the assessment of student learning outcomes and support services including participation in systematic program review.
• Assign faculty to courses, staff classes with current instructors, and provide substitutes when necessary.
• Conducts all Healthcare education faculty observations and evaluations.
• Work with students for any requested schedule changes prior to add/drop period of quarter.
• Develop a positive classroom learning environment to insure high rates of student success.
• Provide regularly scheduled academic advising to students within the program.
• Participate in curriculum design and development activities including actively working with CAO and the other campus faulty and program directors as needed to maintain the overall quality and integrity of the curriculum for the program.
• Implement new or revised curriculum on campus including text book selection and selection of equipment and supplies.
• Ensure program-level compliance with all internal academic policies and procedures and all applicable accrediting standards, state licensing requirements, FERPA, and all other applicable external rules and regulations.
• Recruit participants and actively participate in employer advisory committees and other activities designed to solicit input into curriculum and build relationships with the employers and potential employers or Heald graduates.
• Respond to industry needs within campus’s region with community involvement and the development and management of student internships.
• Insure LES is administered quarterly, provide all survey results to faculty, and assist faculty in improving teaching and student learning outcomes.
• Assist Program Director for Healthcare with development of annual program budget and operating within budget guidelines.
• Identify and develop externship sites and extern agreements. Monitor and supervise externship activities and ensure compliance with extern site agreements.
• All Program Directors have teaching responsibilities, with teaching load determined by the numbers of active students in their designated discipline.

To successfully fulfill this function, the following is required:

A. Faculty assigned to teach general education courses must meet at least one of the following requirements:
a. A Master’s Degree in a subject area that supports the curriculum content; or
b. A Master’s Degree and at least 15 graduate or undergraduate academic (not applied) semester units (credits) or 22.5 or more quarter units (credits) in a subject area that supports the curriculum content.

B. Instructors teaching courses other than general education must hold bachelor’s degrees at a minimum and are assigned based on their major and minor academic preparation and/or related experience. Faculty assigned to teach courses other than general education courses must meet at least one of the following requirements:
i. earned baccalaureate degree in a subject area that supports the curriculum content and the appropriate certification or license as noted in the Heald Faculty Qualifications Policy and accompanying Certification and Licensing Table (if required); or
ii. an earned baccalaureate degree and the appropriate certification or license as noted in the Heald Certification and Licensing Table (if required)and demonstrable current exceptional professional level experience in the assigned field.

Heald College offers a competitive salary structure and an attractive benefits package that includes medical / dental / vision coverage, tuition reimbursement plan, and a retirement savings 401(k) plan.

Heald College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This is a Staff Position

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