Instructor; I2AMJABSOM Health Professions Outreach Coordinator; Hawai

Overview

Title:

Instructor (I2AM11)

Position Number: 0085095

Hiring Unit:
John

A. Burns School of Medicine – Office of Medical Education

Location:

Hawai‘i Island

Date Posted:
June 13, 2025

Closing Date:
Continuous

Salary Information:
Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Monthly Type: 11 Month

Tenure Track:
Non-Tenure

Full Time/Part Time:
Part Time - Full Time Equivalency: 50%

Temporary/Permanent:
Permanent

Other

Conditions:

To begin approximately August 15, 2025 subject to position clearance and availability of funds. For best consideration / First review of applications to begin by July 3, 2025. Position is renewable subject to performance and/or funding availability.

The John

A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa seeks a dynamic and collaborative instructor for a unique faculty position based on the island of Hawai‘i. The successful candidate will provide essential leadership in expanding, strengthening, and coordinating numerous health professions and health science pathway programs on island, conducted in close coordination with Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP), UH health professions unit outreach activities (medicine, cancer center, nursing, social work, public health, pharmacy, and others throughout the UH system).

This position also works closely with the JABSOM Medical Education Physician lead on island, to coordinate and deliver instruction to different learner groups and community partners.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Pre-Health/Pre-Health Science and Medical Student Education (Approximately 20%):

• Conduct UH Manoa Pre-Health Advising (PAC), AHEC-, HCOP- or other health science presentations to K-12 students, undergraduate students, non-traditional learners and community partners, as appropriate.
• Assist in teaching the College and Career Success Course and disseminate information to students and adult learners interested in health careers.
• Create or adapt distance learning modules and in-person presentations on various themes, including time management, learning styles, motivation, inhibitors, computer skills, email and social media etiquette, reading strategies, note-taking, test-taking strategies, critical thinking, math and science review, professionalism, and financial aid, utilizing materials from UH and JABSOM financial aid experts.
• Mentor and advise pre-clinical or pre-science students, utilizing resources provided by the UH health professions and health science programs or schools.
• Participate as a resource person in the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) curriculum for first- and second-year medical students.
• Teach on-island medical students in their required Community Health course.
• Teach AHEC-sponsored community health worker or social work students.
• May involve other teaching activities depending on qualifications and school needs.

Coordinate Health Professions and STEM Pathway programs (Approximately 20%):

• Serve as the key liaison between JABSOM, UH Manoa Pre-Health Advising Committee (PAC), Hawai‘i County-based schools with health academies, tracks, or programs, STEM-focused academies, tracks, or programs, UH Hilo and UH Hawai‘i Community Colleges health and science-focused program leaders.
• Collaborate with the county-based Area Health Education Center and Health Careers Opportunities Program staff, University of Hawai‘i primarily undergraduate institutions (i.e., community colleges, other 4-year colleges as applicable), and liaisons with the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, Kamehameha Schools (as applicable), and other Hawai‘i Association of Independent Schools (as applicable) to develop, expand, and implement on-island/in-county health career and STEM-focused activities for students in county K-12 schools.
• Collaborate with JABSOM and other UH workforce training programs and infrastructure grants (i.e., INBRE) to expand and implement outreach, exposure, or onsite training programs held in the county, as resources allow.
• Assist the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the on-island Medical Education Physician Lead in developing and implementing relevant policies, affiliation…