Reports to: Director
Employment Status: Regular/Full-time
Description: Facilitate learning by identifying and understanding individual characteristics of all students taught and presents subject matter accordingly; manage the classroom by organizing it to stimulate learning and to foster discipline; make professional decisions about what to teach across subject areas based on available curriculum guidelines. The program director must be responsible for program effectiveness, including outcomes, organization, administration, continuous review, planning and development.
NOTE: The below lists are not ranked in order of importance
Essential Functions:
- Ensure safety of students
- Teach and evaluate the students using sound instructional practices
- Effectively manage the classroom and individual student behavior to maintain a good learning environment
- Prepare clear and timely lesson plans, write course description, develop curriculum and create syllabi for each individual course.
- Maintain accurate, complete and correct records as required
- Provide guidance and counsel to the students which will promote their welfare and their proper educational development
- Provide complete lesson plans for substitute
- Make provisions for being available to students for educational-related purposes outside the instructional day
- Assist the administration in implementing all procedures and rules governing student life and conduct, develop reasonable rules of classroom behavior and procedure for the classroom, and maintain order in the classroom in a fair and just manner, as stated in the employee and student handbooks.
- Take necessary and reasonable precautions to protect equipment, materials, and facilities, and keep a current inventory, following replacement procedures as needed.
- Demonstrate knowledge of subject matter and present clear, complete and accurate explanations utilizing a variety of instructional techniques and media suitable to the level of learners
- Identify student needs, and cooperate with other professional staff in assessing and helping students solve health, attitude, and learning problems
- Interact in a positive manner with staff and students
- Maintain respect at all times for confidential information, e.g., student records/information
- Promote good public relations by personal appearance, attitude and conversation
- Attend meetings and in-services as required
- Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with staff and students through effective communication and conferences
- Observe ethics of the teaching profession; exhibit professional behavior, emotional stability, and sound judgment
- Maintain record of student progress and ensure grades are distrubed in a timely manner each grading period
- Create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of students
- Notify student and administration if student is not meeting classroom goals
- Maintain and improve professional competence
- Maintain student files and ensure that all students have the necessary requirements fulfilled for externship/practicum
- Adhere to employee handbook guidelines
- Track daily student attendance (including days missed and makeup days)
- Assist in creating and implementing academic improvement plans for at risk students
- Provide ideas for improving program curriculum to administration
- Assist students in their job search activities
- Establish and manage externship/clinical experiences
- Initiate paperwork and/or schedule students to sit for state and national credentialing examinations
- Assist in marketing the program and recruiting students
- Assist in screening of applicants for enrollment
- Make all efforts possible to retain students in the program and coordinate student assistance with Success Coaches and ACTE Coordinator as necessary
- Maintain an advisory committee and participate in at least two advisory committee meetings per year
- Stay current with industry standards and update credentials as needed and as relates to program compliance and instruction
- Complete all required paperwork to maintain or achieve program certification/accreditation
- The Program Director/Instructor will also serve as Practicum Coordinator; select and approve appropriate practicum sites, provide orientation for the on-site supervisors, provide oversight of the practicum experience, and insure appropriate and sufficient evaluation of student achievement in the practicum experience
- The Program Director/Instructor will complete all required reports and documentation as indicated by credentialing organizations
- Maintaining knowledge of current medical assisting practice should include continuing education in administrative and clinical areas as indicated in the MAERB Core Curriculum Appendix B of these Standards (documented annually).
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
- Interact with public in official capacity when required
- Serve as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings
- Respond to routine questions and requests in a timely, appropriate manner
- Establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships
- Assist in the determination of appropriate curriculum, materials, supplies, and texts in cooperation with the Program Coordinator
- Attend professional growth seminars, workshops, etc., to keep current on relevant issues
- Refer attendance, health, and psychological emotional problems to Program Coordinator
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Program Coordinator or designee
Qualifications:
- Valid Adult Education Teaching Permit.
- The Program Director must have a minimum of an Associate Degree and instruction in educational theory and techniques.
- The Program Director must be credentialed in good standing in medical assisting, by an organization whose credentialing exam is accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) or the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
- The Program Director will maintain the program’s compliance with the current Standards and Guidelines for Medical Assisting Educational Programs as per CAAHEP, MAERB and COE.
- The Program Director must have a minimum of three (3) years experience of employment in a healthcare facility, including a minimum of 160 hours in an ambulatory healthcare setting performing or observing administrative and clinical procedures as performed by medical assistants.
- The Program Director must have a minimum of one year teaching experience in postsecondary and/or vocational/technical education.
- The Program Instructor is responsible for preparing the students for: cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective domains (learning).
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of academic area and teaching methodology
- Ability to work effectively with others
- Ability to communicate ideas and directives clearly and effectively both orally and in writing
- Effective, active listening skills
- Organizational and problem solving skills
- General computer skills
Equipment Operated:
- Various Office Equipment
- Technology appropriate for position/assignment
Additional Working Conditions:
- Occasional requirement to travel daily and/or overnight
- Occasional interaction among unruly students
- Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids and tissue
- Frequent requirement to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, see, read, speak, reach, stretch with hands and arms, crouch, kneel, climb, and stoop
- Frequent operation of a vehicle in inclement weather conditions, i.e., being prepared to come to work on all scheduled work days, except calamity days
- Frequent weekend/evening/summer work
- Requirement to lift and/or carry up to a maximum of 75 pounds, and push/pull up to a maximum of 300 pounds, various supplies and/or equipment
This job description is subject to change and in no manner states or implies that these are the only duties and responsibilities to be performed by the incumbent. The incumbent will be required to follow the instructions and perform the duties required by the incumbent’s supervisor, appointing authority.
Pay: $44,116.81 - $59,011.32 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Work Location: In person
