Associate Dean, Quality and Accreditation, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Position Summary:

The Associate Dean, Quality and Accreditation provides strategic leadership for accreditation, institutional assessment, and continuous quality improvement (CQI) across the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OUHCOM). This role has primary responsibility for the planning, coordination, oversight, and sustainability of accreditation and evaluation systems that support regulatory compliance, institutional effectiveness, and evidence-based decision making.

The Associate Dean represents the College in internal, university level, and external accreditation and effectiveness activities; leads institutional self‑study processes and ongoing reporting; advances data informed assessment and quality improvement initiatives; and contributes to scholarly work in medical education, assessment, and accreditation. The role serves as a key advisor to senior leadership on accreditation readiness, institutional risk, and emerging trends affecting medical school quality and compliance.

The Associate Dean partners closely with the Senior Dean and Chief Academic Officer, Campus Deans, Associate Deans, department chairs, curriculum committees, faculty, and university accreditation offices to advance a culture of continuous improvement, institutional excellence, and sustained accreditation success.

• Lead institutional accreditation activities for OUHCOM, including self-study development, ongoing reporting, site visit preparation, and coordination for programmatic and institutional accreditors.
• Serve as the College’s primary representative to national, state, and university level accreditation and institutional effectiveness bodies.
• Ensure continuous compliance with program specific (e.g.,COCA,ACGME) and institutional accreditation standards through systematic monitoring, documentation, and reporting.
• Advise senior leadership on accreditation readiness, risks, gaps, and evidence based corrective actions.
• Maintain a continuous accreditation infrastructure that supports proactive monitoring and sustainability.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive, sustainable institutional accreditation and assessment strategy embedded within continuous, integrated processes.

• Lead college level institutional assessment and evaluation activities aligned with institutional effectiveness and quality improvement frameworks.
• Align medical school assessment andCQIprocesses with broader university effectiveness initiatives.
• Apply quality improvement methodologies (e.g., gap analysis, root cause analysis, process mapping) to inform institutional improvement efforts.
• Promote the use of national and regional benchmarking and evidence based best practices in assessment and accreditation.

• Advance data integrity, governance, and compliance to support accurate internal reporting and external regulatory submissions.
• Collect, analyze, and synthesize data from internal units and external sources (e.g.,AAMC,ACGME, national benchmarks) to inform accreditation and institutional evaluation.
• Develop and oversee dashboards, metrics, and reporting structures to communicate institutional effectiveness and accreditation related outcomes to varied audiences.
• Supervise the maintenance of institutional documentation, reports, and data repositories supporting accreditation and evaluation.

• Conduct institutional assessment and educational research using qualitative and quantitative methods, including survey design, data analysis, and reporting.
• Produce peer reviewed scholarship related to institutional effectiveness, accreditation, and medical education.
• Provide consultation to college units (e.g., admissions, curriculum, student affairs) to ensure alignment with accreditation standards and assessment best practices.
• Foster internal and external partnerships to advance the work of theOIAAand institutional success.
• Pursue grant and funding opportunities to support institutional effectiveness initiatives and evaluation work.

• Lead, supervise, and mentor professional staff and student employees within the Office of Institutional Assessment and Accreditation. Manage
  
  OIAAoperations, personnel supervision, and the unit’s budget.