College of Medicine: Director of Student Success Programs - Student Affairs and Diversity

Belmont University, United States

Updated: 3 months ago
Location: Nashville, TENNESSEE


College of Medicine: Director of Student Success Programs - Student Affairs and Diversity

We are now accepting applications for a qualified College of Medicine: Director of Student Success Programs - Student Affairs and Diversity at Belmont University. 

Employment Type 

Staff

Internal Job Category

Exempt (Staff)
Full-Time

Department

College of Medicine

Hours 


Primary Duties and
Responsibilities:		 

Reporting to the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Diversity, the Director of Student Success Programs is responsible for providing visionary leadership for the development and administration of academic support services for the students to facilitate academic progression and promotion, enhance performance, and support remediation.

  • Continuous engagement with the Curriculum Committee during the ongoing curriculum development and revision processes to design student academic support programming and provide guidance from the student learning perspective.
  • Identify assessment instruments to be administered through the onboarding and orientation processes to develop individual learning profiles and enrollment plans for each student upon matriculation.
  • Collaborate with the Belmont University Offices for Student Success and Flourishing, other academic support units, Care & Concern team, to train and inform on nuanced support services for medical students and refer students for additional services as needed.
  • Hire and train Learning Specialists to  be the initial point of contact for advising, academic support services, management of the individualized learning profiles and enrollment plans, USMLE licensure preparation.
  • In collaboration with the FCoM faculty house leaders, course directors, faculty, and the Office of Medical Education and Faculty Success, design an early alert system to identify students experiencing academic difficulty.
  • In addition to the Associate Dean for Student Affairs & Diversity, serve as a FCoM recipient of Maxient referrals for FCoM students.
  • Offer group and individual programming for study skills, test preparation, time management, stress management, clinical reasoning, metacognition, and other aspects of academic student support.
  • Serve as the liaison to the Office of Accessibility Services to advise students of the Belmont University process for requesting accommodations, referrals for consideration of accommodation requests, receive notification of approved accommodations, and communicate with faculty to ensure approved accommodations are provided.
  • Develop USMLE preparation services, including determination and utilization of Kaplan or other third-party resources.
  • In collaboration with the Director of Pathway Programs and Recruitment, advise, design, and administer MCAT preparation services for the internal and external pathway programs.
  • Analyze test, course, and licensure exam performance to make recommendations for changes or enhancements to the curriculum and/or academic support services to support high retention of students and continuous improvement.
  • Design and administer a peer tutoring program starting with the second entering class.
  • Develop advisor training materials and conduct annual advisor training workshop.

Required Qualifications: Belmont University seeks to attract and retain highly qualified faculty and staff that share the University's values and will contribute to its mission and vision to be a leader among teaching universities bringing together the best of liberal arts and professional education in a Christ-centered community of learning and service. 

Required Qualifications

  • Education: Master’s degree or above
  • Experience: Five or more years of experience developing pre-medical and medical school academic support programming, USMLE and MCAT preparation, teaching and learning strategies.
  • Demonstrated success in collaboration, a strong work ethic, and experience in leadership and supervisory roles.
  • Outstanding oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Strong organizational and leadership skills to cultivate and manage collegial relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Proficiency in data analysis, creating and assessing student performance data.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the need for data, data analysis, and data driven decision making.
  • Self-motivated and well organized.
  • Possess detail, service-oriented, and problem solving skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks.
  • Ability to work harmoniously with other staff members within the College of Medicine and throughout the university.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment and the ability to respond to high-pressure situations.
  • Ability to thrive in an environment of hard work.
   
Required Education Master’s degree or above
  
Required Experience Five or more years of experience developing pre-medical and medical school academic support programming, USMLE and MCAT preparation, teaching and learning strategies.
  
Working Conditions & Physical Requirements The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to speak and hear sufficiently to communicate effectively by phone or in person at normal volumes. The employee’s vision must be adequate to read correspondence, computer screen, forms, etc. The position requires good manual dexterity. This is a largely sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets, and bending or standing as necessary.

 

 


 

The selected candidate will be required to complete a background check satisfactory to the University.

Belmont University participates in E-Verify. Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States.

 


Primary Duties and
Responsibilities:		 

Reporting to the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Diversity, the Director of Student Success Programs is responsible for providing visionary leadership for the development and administration of academic support services for the students to facilitate academic progression and promotion, enhance performance, and support remediation.

  • Continuous engagement with the Curriculum Committee during the ongoing curriculum development and revision processes to design student academic support programming and provide guidance from the student learning perspective.
  • Identify assessment instruments to be administered through the onboarding and orientation processes to develop individual learning profiles and enrollment plans for each student upon matriculation.
  • Collaborate with the Belmont University Offices for Student Success and Flourishing, other academic support units, Care & Concern team, to train and inform on nuanced support services for medical students and refer students for additional services as needed.
  • Hire and train Learning Specialists to  be the initial point of contact for advising, academic support services, management of the individualized learning profiles and enrollment plans, USMLE licensure preparation.
  • In collaboration with the FCoM faculty house leaders, course directors, faculty, and the Office of Medical Education and Faculty Success, design an early alert system to identify students experiencing academic difficulty.
  • In addition to the Associate Dean for Student Affairs & Diversity, serve as a FCoM recipient of Maxient referrals for FCoM students.
  • Offer group and individual programming for study skills, test preparation, time management, stress management, clinical reasoning, metacognition, and other aspects of academic student support.
  • Serve as the liaison to the Office of Accessibility Services to advise students of the Belmont University process for requesting accommodations, referrals for consideration of accommodation requests, receive notification of approved accommodations, and communicate with faculty to ensure approved accommodations are provided.
  • Develop USMLE preparation services, including determination and utilization of Kaplan or other third-party resources.
  • In collaboration with the Director of Pathway Programs and Recruitment, advise, design, and administer MCAT preparation services for the internal and external pathway programs.
  • Analyze test, course, and licensure exam performance to make recommendations for changes or enhancements to the curriculum and/or academic support services to support high retention of students and continuous improvement.
  • Design and administer a peer tutoring program starting with the second entering class.
  • Develop advisor training materials and conduct annual advisor training workshop.

Required Qualifications: Belmont University seeks to attract and retain highly qualified faculty and staff that share the University's values and will contribute to its mission and vision to be a leader among teaching universities bringing together the best of liberal arts and professional education in a Christ-centered community of learning and service. 

Required Qualifications

  • Education: Master’s degree or above
  • Experience: Five or more years of experience developing pre-medical and medical school academic support programming, USMLE and MCAT preparation, teaching and learning strategies.
  • Demonstrated success in collaboration, a strong work ethic, and experience in leadership and supervisory roles.
  • Outstanding oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Strong organizational and leadership skills to cultivate and manage collegial relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Proficiency in data analysis, creating and assessing student performance data.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the need for data, data analysis, and data driven decision making.
  • Self-motivated and well organized.
  • Possess detail, service-oriented, and problem solving skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks.
  • Ability to work harmoniously with other staff members within the College of Medicine and throughout the university.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment and the ability to respond to high-pressure situations.
  • Ability to thrive in an environment of hard work.
   
Required Education Master’s degree or above
  
Required Experience Five or more years of experience developing pre-medical and medical school academic support programming, USMLE and MCAT preparation, teaching and learning strategies.
  
Working Conditions & Physical Requirements The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to speak and hear sufficiently to communicate effectively by phone or in person at normal volumes. The employee’s vision must be adequate to read correspondence, computer screen, forms, etc. The position requires good manual dexterity. This is a largely sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets, and bending or standing as necessary.

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