Meritus Health and the Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine (MSOM) in Hagerstown, Maryland is seeking a highly motivated individual to become our Director of Accreditation & Assessment.
Job Summary:
The Director of Assessment and Accreditation leads the Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine (MSOM) in a continuous quality improvement (CQI) process aimed at maintaining accreditation and ensuring the institution's commitment to providing high-quality education. Designs, directs and supports academic and administrative program reviews and related activities that demonstrate institutional effectiveness. Coordinates with MSOM for COCA (Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation) assessment reporting.
Responsibilities
- Leads the process to develop and implement sustainable processes to collect data and evidence for continuous improvement of the educational program.
- Prepares and presents accreditation reports to the Dean's Cabinet, committees, and other departments and offices at the MSOM as requested.
- Assists the departmental leadership team in achieving short- and long-term programmatic goals used to improve quality and compliance.
- Responsible for keeping abreast of evolving accreditation standards.
- Collects, organizes, and analyzes data by which the department will assess successes and opportunities for improvement in all areas of the student experience and the administrative process.
- Consult with deans, faculty, course and clerkship directors, senior leadership team, and others regarding educational programs and administrative processes related to accreditation.
- Maintains expertise in evolving accreditation requirements, ensuring compliance is documented and processed by established timelines and policy.
- Develops and delivers training or briefing materials and serves on various educational and other school governance committees, providing internal consulting on COCA-related matters as they arise.
- Develop and map learning outcomes to the curriculum at program and course levels, supporting the development of appropriate lecture and lab-level learning outcomes.
- Ensures timely submission of data requests from the MSOM in support of regional accreditation processes such as the Maryland Higher Education Commission.
- Provides oversight for any ongoing required communications, reporting, and corrective action plans emanating from the COCA accreditation processes.
- Track distribution of Accreditation Competencies, as well as Program Learning outcomes and Student Learning Outcomes across MSOM courses.
- Advise and support the development of assessments, working with the curriculum committee and assessment committee.
- Support evaluation of other outcomes that measure the unique aspects of the curriculum.
- Works to identify gaps in efficiency and implements corrective action to maximize effectiveness and quality.
- Creates systems to implement controls and reduce inefficiencies, both fiscally and administratively.
- The candidate needs in-depth knowledge of educational software and technologies to support continuous accreditation, including curriculum mapping and compliance monitoring systems.
- Assists in the development and implementation of training programs to educate faculty and staff on benchmarks for the educational program.
- Attend internal and external meetings related to program evaluation, information technology, student assessment, and medical education innovation that are pertinent to MSOM.
- Tracks priority initiatives that drive innovative approaches to meet CQI goals.
- Support formative and summative assessment of the MSOM.
- Able to work with curriculum mapping, assessment, and survey software efficiently.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Requirements:
Education: A Master's degree in a related field is preferred or a bachelor's degree with more than three years of experience.
Experience: Experience working in osteopathic or allopathic medical schools in the assessment and accreditation process.
Salary Range: $120,000 - $160,000
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