Director of Student and Residency Affairs

The Director for Student and Residency Affairs is responsible for developing/creating, planning, managing, implementing, and evaluating all programs in the areas of applicant development, student affairs, and residency affairs for this organization that represents higher education institutions in the health profession education arena.

This position provides direction, management, and administrative support for daily operations in pertinent program areas (applicant development, student affairs, and residency affairs), and helps to advance the goals of the association by:

• Managing all aspects of a national initiative designed to recruit undergraduate students into a career in a specific health profession. The current initiative is a digital marketing campaign with a wide range of creative assets and an online platform that connects prospective students with health care practitioners. Duties include serving as the primary liaison to the campaign’s marketing/communications and public relations firms, recruiting and verifying licensure credentials for participating practitioners, monitoring campaign delivery and sharing results, and serving as the primary staff liaison to the committee(s) overseeing the initiative.
  
  Designing, coordinating, and staffing other career awareness and recruitment initiatives, such as virtual career fairs; giving presentations and exhibiting at conferences; maintaining websites and publications; responding to requests for information from students/prospective students, health professions advisors, practitioners, educators, and administrators; and collaborating with other health profession education associations. Managing all aspects of a national centralized application service for member educational institutions, including serving as the primary liaison with the vendor responsible for providing the digital platform for the application service.
  
  Overseeing operations of a standardized entrance exam for admissions candidates, including serving as the primary liaison with the vendor responsible for developing and overseeing the administration of the standardized entrance exam. Developing, directing, implementing, managing, and evaluating all student affairs programs, initiatives, and guidelines. This includes maintaining a website; serving as staff liaison to a networking group of student affairs and admissions officers at member educational institutions;
  
  overseeing the regular collection of data from current students and administrators; and serving as the staff liaison to several committees. Developing, directing, implementing, managing, and evaluating all residency education initiatives and guidelines. This includes serving as the staff liaison to several committees and other volunteer groups focused on residencies and residency programs; managing the application process for recognizing new residency emphasis areas within a subspeciality category framework;
  
  developing, implementing and evaluating programs designed to promote residencies to students; maintaining relevant information on a website; and collaborating with volunteers to develop residency education guidelines and addressing emerging…