Manager Education Program - Ophthalmology

Take advantage of this opportunity to join UT Southwestern Medical Center – ranked one of the “Best Places to Work” by the Dallas Business Journal. Due to our continued growth, UT Southwestern Medical Center is seeking a full-time Manager Education Program – Ophthalmology. 

Education:

• Bachelor's degree and 7 years of progressive administrative financial and supervisory experience.
• Master's degree in education preferred and can substitute towards some years of experience.

Duties:

• Directs administrative strategies, and develops and implements systems to enhance the operations of local and national education programs.
• Accountable for all three education areas (UME, GME, CME), managing a staff of at least 6 (direct and indirect).
• Working directly with Vice Chair of Education, the Program Directors and the Graduate Medical Education office, creates administrative structures to assess and improve the performance of trainees.
• Acquires and analyzes data, implements web technology, and develops and implements policies and procedures in response to guidelines and regulations.
• Acts as project manager for implementing exams and achievement-related activities during the year.
• Oversees financial planning, monitors and maintains annual operating budgets for residency and multiple fellowship programs.
• Gathers development plans from the various program directors, identifies equipment purchasing, programmatic expenditures and submits annual budget to the Department for approval.
• Ensures effective management of fund level professional expenses, approves expense requests, and monitors balances available to ensure positive cash flow.
• Manages staff: interviews and hires, reviews and evaluates staff performance, determines corrective actions plans; and manages employee discipline and grievances.
• Plans for staff development, conducts annual evaluations, providing critical feedback, arranging training both internal and external.
• Promotes department identity across other functional areas of the department.
• Oversees the residency and fellowship recruitment processes.
• Develops training, designs and implements systems and procedures, and coordinates activities of Program Specialists to effectively manage the entire recruitment process.
• Stays current on systems, trains staff, and provides for the input of the faculty in ongoing improvements.
• Oversees all aspects of university and hospital appointments and re-appointments for residents; oversees appointment of Fellows.
• Ensures processes are executed for appointments and rotations at multiple venues outside UT Southwestern.
• Ensures timely resident and faculty compliance.
• Oversees residency and fellowship training effectiveness reporting.
• Designs and implements resident, faculty and rotation evaluation processes to solicit appropriate information.
• Designs and runs reports to track residency competencies across the required regulatory milestones. Provides analysis and trends to faculty and committees to enhance education for residents, fellows and medical students.
• Coordinates the direction of educational programming, communicating across the sub-specialties and the numerous faculty involved in arranging and accommodating lecturers throughout the academic year.
• Ensures the process of educational programming is smooth and that all requirements are met for CME programming in the department.
• Maintains current knowledge of Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) General and Special Requirements and ACGE/Residency Review Committee- Specialty regulations and recommendations to ensure favorable judgments on audits, re-accreditation and recertification criteria for the Residency and the fellowship programs.
• Stays current on American Board policies and recommendations, as well as all necessary systems and technologies, to ensure accurate evaluation and tracking of residents and fellows through their programs.
• Oversees documentation of eligibility of specialty and subspecialty certification of residents and fellows.
• Designs training for staff and directly implements procedures and systems to ensure compliance.
• Acts as the administrative contact person to external agencies.
• Responsible for volunteer faculty oversight including credentialing and privileges.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.

About UT Southwestern Medical Center:

UT Southwestern Medical Center ranks among the top academic medical centers with more active Nobel Prize winners than any other medical school in the world. As a premier educational, clinical and research institution, UT Southwestern is home to more than 2,000 distinguished scientists, physicians and allied health professionals. Our University Hospital has achieved Magnet® recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), joining only 7% of hospitals in the United States.