Director of COM Excellence

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Full-time Regular Senior Management Bethesda, Bethesda, MD, US

13 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

AACOM is seeking a full-time, exempt Director of COM Performance Excellence to build and lead a national accreditation excellence and quality improvement program for colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs). AACOM is creating this role to fill a strategic gap between accreditation compliance and continuous institutional improvement as the accreditation environment undergoes significant change.

Rather than serving solely as an accreditation consultant, the Director will build a sustainable infrastructure for accreditation research, benchmarking, quality improvement, faculty development, and thought leadership across the osteopathic medical education community. The Director will help member COMs strengthen accreditation outcomes, improve institutional performance, and prepare for evolving standards and expectations.

This role offers the opportunity to establish a proactive, data-driven, and innovation-oriented service that expands AACOM's support for its members. The Director will generate research and benchmarking data, create practical resources, introduce new approaches to accreditation preparation, and strengthen AACOM's influence in national discussions about educational quality and institutional effectiveness.

If you are someone who:

• Understands accreditation as both a compliance responsibility and an opportunity for continuous institutional improvement
• Can translate complex standards, research, and data into practical guidance for member institutions
• Wants to build a national quality improvement and accreditation support function
• Enjoys designing innovative tools, programs, and professional development experiences
• Can establish productive relationships with institutional leaders, accrediting organizations, and other national stakeholders

This may be what you're looking for!

The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, or AACOM, was founded in 1898 to lend support and assistance to the nation's osteopathic medical schools, and to serve as a unifying voice for osteopathic medical education. The association is guided by its Board of Deans of member colleges of osteopathic medicine, and various other member councils and committees.

AACOM represents and advances the continuum of osteopathic medical education by:

• Supporting our member institutions as they educate the future physician workforce
• Increasing awareness of osteopathic medical education and osteopathic medicine
• Promoting excellence in medical education, policy, research, and service
• Fostering innovation and quality throughout medical education

• Serve as AACOM's principal subject matter expert on current and evolving COCA accreditation standards and the accreditation life cycle for colleges of osteopathic medicine.
• Help member COMs prepare for initial accreditation, comprehensive site visits, self-studies, mid-cycle reviews, focused visits, and accreditation decisions.
• Provide guidance on standards interpretation, compliance strategies, evidence documentation, assessment planning, self-study preparation, and accreditation readiness.
• Review draft self-study documents and evidence portfolios and provide individualized consultation to member institutions.
• Support the development of new COMs while helping existing programs sustain accreditation excellence.
• Strengthen institutional readiness and help reduce variability in accreditation preparation and performance across COMs.

• Lead quality improvement and improvement science initiatives that move AACOM's accreditation support beyond compliance toward continuous performance enhancement.
• Design, implement, and evaluate programs that strengthen institutional capacity for accreditation and continuous quality improvement.
• Develop frameworks, rubrics, and self-assessment instruments addressing curriculum quality, clinical education, student outcomes, program assessment, and institutional effectiveness.
• Connect accreditation improvement with strategic planning, outcomes assessment, and data-informed decision-making.
• Collaborate across AACOM to align accreditation support with research, learning innovation, faculty development, student affairs, and diversity,…