About the Department

As one of the oldest medical schools in the country, the UC College of Medicine has a reputation for training best-in-class health care professionals and developing cutting-edge procedures and research that improves the health and clinical care of patients. The Center for Student Success works to identify, recruit, and cultivate an undergraduate student body of future leaders in the fields of clinical practice (including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and other healthcare professions), medical research, and public health.

Job Overview

The College of Medicine Center for Student Success is seeking to hire a part-time (.6 FTE, 24 hours a week) Program Manager to work with the undergraduate students, staff, and faculty to design and manage the newly created Harvey D. and Janet G. Cohen Leadership in Clinical Medicine Program. The Program introduces the foundational principles of leadership and hones the leadership skills of the next generation of healthcare providers, encompassing professions in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, allied health sciences, and broadly, healthcare administration. This undergraduate program will provide UC students the opportunity to gain experience from highly experienced and noted clinicians and nationally renowned and highly successful healthcare leaders, as well as other leaders throughout a variety of disciplines. The Program Manager will play a central role in Program success. The selected candidate will help plan, design, develop, manage, and modify the Cohen Leadership in Clinical Medicine program. The position requires a high degree of accountability, responsibility, and coordination to enable the successful execution of the undergraduate student-centric program. The individual will be expected to exercise sound judgment as it relates to dealing with students, faculty, staff, administrative personnel, and external partners.

Salary Range:

$23-$28/h ($48,000-$58,000 1 FTE equivalent)

Essential Functions

• Provide financial administrative support for program initiatives, including approving and monitoring expenditures, preparing budget requests, and financial reports.
• Coordinate an external speaker series, including speaker travel arrangements, seminar announcements and marketing, and speaker visit schedule.
• Coordinate a student scholarship and student travel award selection process, working with other faculty and staff; develop and implement marketing strategies to recruit student applicants.
• Implement program, college, and university polices and procedures relevant to the program.
• Monitor qualitative and quantitative data on progress toward program objectives.
• Create and execute processes to track student program outcomes; assist in developing program progress reports.
• Work closely with faculty and staff on programmatic and student issues. 
• Act as a liason from the program to other relevant internal departments and programs along with external entities and community organizations.
• Engage in ongoing professional development and training to maintain up-to-date knowledge about student success practices, policies, and technologies at the university and in higher education.
• Function as a member of the Center for Student Success team to ensure the proper workflow and outcomes.
• Assist with administrative responsibilities within the Center for Student Success.
• Recommend policies to best meet student needs.
• Attend related meetings and functions.
• May provide direct and/or indirect supervision to student workers (i.e., hiring, evaluation, disciplinary action, scheduling, etc.)
• The Program Manager must be detail-oriented and have strong interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills. Must be able to retain a high volume of programmatic, college, and university related information while having the ability to critically think through complex situations.
• Perform related duties based on College of Medicine Undergraduate Program needs.

Required Education

• Bachelor?s Degree
• Seven (7) years of relevant work experience and/or other specialized training can be used in lieu of education requirement

Required Experience

• Three (3) years of relevant experience.

Additional Qualifications Considered

• Master?s Degree

Physical Requirements/Work Environment