Pharmacy Technician, Program Director

Imagine doing the best work of your career in a place where your efforts advance lives and empower communities. Where a shared passion for education and student achievement guides every decision. And where the lives you change today literally become tomorrow’s life-savers. That’s what awaits when you join the American Career College (ACC)team. Get ready to transform futures, including your own. 

What You’ll Do:
As the Program Director you will provide leadership in managing, planning, and implementing the Pharmacy Technician program in support of American Career College goals in order to assure compliance with programmatic accreditation and/or licensure, internal consistency, and graduate outcomes to meet placement expectations. You will participate in curriculum development and coordination, while determining teaching assignments using a blended instructional approach combining face-to-face instruction with on-line instruction (as applicable), selection of faculty, and selection/coordination of program specific external facilities and instruction. You will also provide professional leadership and support for teaching faculty; serving as a mentor and facilitator for faculty assigned; and enables an environment which fosters creativity, responsiveness, and self-responsibility.

Who You Are:
The ideal candidate has a minimum of five (5) years (or equivalent), full-time, post licensure experience that includes a minimum of three (3) years (or equivalent) of full-time clinical experience, and possesses the following qualifications: 

• Didactic and/or clinical teaching experience. 
• Experience in administration/management. 
• Experience in educational theory and methodology, instructional design, student evaluation and outcome assessment, including the equivalent of nine credits of coursework in educational foundations.
 • Must possess contemporary expertise (expertise beyond that obtained in an entry-level pharmacy tech  program that represents knowledge and skills reflective of current practice) in assigned teaching areas and demonstrate effectiveness in teaching and student evaluation.

Education:

• Associate degree required.
• Must be a graduate from a program accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in the specialty field or the subject area in which they teach.

Knowledge/Experience:

• Must have a minimum of two (2) years of educational training in the pharmacy field (if Associates degree is not in Pharmacy). 
• Must have a minimum of two (2) years of experience in the field. 

Licenses/Certifications:

• California licensure or registration to practice as a pharmacist or pharmacy technician required.
• Certification by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB). 
• Active membership in a national pharmacy organization or education association and a state pharmacy association.

Compensation: $66,126 - $95,893