Dean of Medicine jobs in Champaign, IL

The Carle Illinois College of Medicine seeks applicants for an Assistant Dean for Accreditation to provide leadership and oversight for all accreditation and continuous quality improvement activities across the college. The Assistant Dean for Accreditation will also collaborate with senior leadership to ensure compliance and excellence in the medical education program. This position reports to the Executive Vice Dean.

 Major Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership 

·      Provide leadership and oversight of all accreditation activities for the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Work closely with the dean and the senior leadership team and other stakeholders to ensure clear communication of and preparation for accreditation requirements and related objectives.

·      Develop and implement vision, goals, strategic plans, and activities to ensure success in all initial and ongoing accreditation activities.  These include but are not limited to accreditations with the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) and the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).

·      Assist in strategic planning activities of the college as they relate to assessment and accreditation. Participate in ongoing programmatic and curricular assessment as defined by the dean, executive vice dean,  and in collaboration with the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

Executive Administrative Leadership 

·      Develop and implement assessment and accreditation policies and procedures including a clearly defined strategic plan to ensure that key milestones and deliverables are met, while ensuring the highest standards of accuracy, timeliness, and quality.

·      Develop processes and procedures to manage and access data for accreditation bodies that cover the curriculum, programs, and services for students, faculty, and administration.  Apply assessment data to continuously improve educational outcomes, and programmatic structures and processes.

·      Develop, manage, and maintain all assessment and accreditation data systems and interfaces. Create and maintain a repository of documentation in support of accreditation activities including assessment data, reports, standard documents, and project plans.

·      Synthesize and disseminate accreditation and assessment materials to leadership, stakeholders, and constituents to ensure continuous and transparent exchange of information.

·      Generate internal and external reports, executive summaries and respond to inquiries, surveys and data collection requests pertaining to assessment and accreditation.

·      Align assessment work with required university, hospital, and accreditation standards to assure quality and support continuous improvement.

·      Organize and lead continuous quality improvement initiative teams related to accreditation metrics and elements.

Other 

·      Support the educational mission of the college, maintaining appropriate confidentiality of information and materials, and in accordance with all applicable policies, procedures and regulations.  

·      Establish and maintain effective working relationships; work cooperatively and collegially with others in a manner consistent with a workplace of dignity and respect.

·      Foster a culture of diversity and inclusion and champion positive inter-professional relationships bridging the college’s private/public organization and missions.

·      Collaborate with units across the College to combine and synergize strengths that foster an environment of collaboration and inclusion as well as administrative transparency.

·      Help support the development of faculty in educational scholarship and research, which could include research design, selection of methodology, survey/instrument development, qualitative methods, analysis planning, assisting with interpretation of results/findings, and writing evaluation plans for grants.

·      Attend internal and external meetings related to program evaluation, IT, student assessment, and medical education innovation that are pertinent to the Carle Illinois College of Medicine; participate in personal professional development related to the topics of student assessment and continuous improvement to keep abreast of advances in the field and updates to expectations and requirements for outcomes measurement and evaluation of educational programs.

·      Participate in appropriate national organizations to keep abreast of new concepts to provide optimal and continually updated technologies and service to the Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s needs.

·      May supervise academic and/or civil service direct reports.

·      Perform other duties as assigned, in support of the College mission, objective and initiatives.