CON Partnership Liaison Specialist

Job Title: CON Partnership Liaison Specialist

Location: Aug Univ CON Augusta Campus

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Job : 286100

Augusta University is Georgia's innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. More than 10,500 students choose Augusta for educational opportunities at the center of Georgia's cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts and application, humanities, and the health sciences.

Augusta is home to Georgia's only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research is creating a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world-class clinicians are bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today. Our mission and values https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). make Augusta University an institution like no other.

Augusta University's distinct characteristics include real-world experiences, community engagement, and a culture of building community, corporate and government partnerships that address health, security, economic and societal concerns locally and across the state.

The College of Nursing (CON) Partnership Liaison Specialist serves as a strong role model for professional nursing practice and supports the mission and vision of the CON. The coordinator assists program leadership by planning, securing, organizing, maintaining, and facilitating educational experiences in clinical facilities that support clinical learning objectives and program outcomes. The coordinator establishes, cultivates, and continuously builds relationships with clinical affiliates throughout Georgia and the region to place undergrad and graduate students in clinical sites, ensuring adequate capacity for quality education.

The schedule involves some travel on evenings and weekends.

• Serve as the nursing liaison between the college, healthcare agencies, and educational institutions and participate in the processes established for obtaining sites for clinical experiences.
• Identify, recruit, and tour new clinical agency placement sites.
• Attend required leadership nursing meetings at clinical affiliation agencies.
• Interact with current clinical agencies RN staff to plan for and schedule group and/or individual clinical rotations.
• Collaborate and consult with CON site coordinators and clinical instructors to evaluate clinical sites per Board of Nursing and program requirements.
• Maintain relationships with clinical partners, preceptors, and the community for further development and support of clinical affiliates.
• Develop and maintain a database of clinical sites, preceptors, and clinical agency credentialing requirements.
• Utilize the clinical placement system (e.g. ACEMAPPS) to submit clinical placement requests for groups of students and preceptorships as required to meet clinical affiliate deadlines.
• Prepare reports of clinical activities that are required and requested.
• Maintain accurate records regarding clinical placements and preceptors (e.g. PTIP – Preceptor Tax Incentive Program).
• Collaborate with CON program leadership and faculty to ensure student compliance with clinical placement requirements and processes.
• Initiate, review, revise, and maintain contracts and agreements in collaboration with other staff associates.
• Provide student training with credentialing processes and institutional requirements as needed.
• Collaborate with CON Communications and Retention and Recruitment Coordinator to ensure marketing needs and recruitment potential are communicated and that strategies are developed and implemented.
• Meet with nursing leaders at clinical sites related to student issues and relay any concerns related to the clinical experience to CON leadership to facilitate prompt resolution.
• Provide conflict resolution in situations where there are discrepancies between the goals/objectives of the clinical placement site and the CON.
• Collaborate with clinical site nurse leaders on latest developments regarding new departments, new innovations, etc. to pursue novel opportunities for students.
• Develop and implement policies and plans related to clinical placements and timelines for program directors and course chairs.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university.
• Active RN license in State of GA.
• Two years of directly related program experience in a progressively responsible position in a hospital or academic setting with directly related clinical rotation programs experience.

• Previous experience in basic hospital organization, hospital/clinic systems, or academic health professions education.
• Knowledge of Augusta University's policies and procedures or similar practices.

• Knowledge of basic hospital organization, hospital/clinic systems, or academic health…