Director of Foundational Curriculum Operations

The Director of Foundations Curriculum Operations leads the delivery of the Foundations Phase of the MD program, the first 16 months of the curriculum, across all three campuses of the University of Minnesota Medical School. The Director supervises the Course Management team, oversees curriculum delivery, and manages ongoing curricular changes. The Director works as a peer to the instructional design team and in close partnership with the Associate Dean for Foundational Curriculum, who holds responsibility for curricular content, faculty governance, and faculty performance.

The Director reports to the Associate Dean for Foundations Curriculum. This is a hybrid position, with 2-3 days per week expected on one of the Medical School campuses (Twin Cities, Duluth, or St Cloud) with occasional travel to the other campuses.

• Directly supervise the tri-campus Foundations course management team, including hiring, onboarding, goal setting, coaching, and performance evaluation, with authority to make hiring decisions in collaboration with other leaders and to initiate corrective action in consultation with Medical School Human Resources
• Set priorities, make staffing assignments, and balanced portfolios across course managers so that every course is built, scheduled, and delivered on time on all three campuses.
• Establish and maintain standard operating procedures for running a course, including Canvas setup, gradebook configuration, student communication templates, and grade reporting timelines in keeping with Medical School Policy, and hold staff accountable for meeting these standards.
• Direct ongoing course management huddles within and across each campus.
• Serve as the final decision-maker on operational concerns in courses and threads, resolve escalations from course directors, faculty, staff, and students, and route faculty, policy, and content questions to the Associate Dean
• Design and adjust the staffing model for course management, including position descriptions, workload standards, and cross-campus coverage, and recommend changes in staffing levels and structure to the Associate Dean
• Manage the Foundations curriculum operations budget, including platform, vendor, and operational expenses, and monitor spending against plan

• Develop and lead a multi-year operational plan for the Foundations Curriculum team, aligned with UME priorities, the Foundations Committee’s continuous quality improvement goals, and LCME standards, and advise the Associate Dean on organizational design, staffing, and resource needs
• Translate decisions of Medical School leadership and governance committees into project plans with owners, timelines, and measures of completion, and direct their execution across all three campuses
• Lead implementation of curricular changes across campuses so that learning objectives, assessments, and structure remain comparable, and manage the approved exception process when local constraints require a difference in curricular delivery.
• Lead the cross-unit workflows for operations and changes shared by course management, instructional design, assessment and evaluation, student affairs, and the clinical curriculum team, and represent Foundations curriculum operations with these offices and with campus UME leadership
• Ensure, through the course management team, that course close-out meetings and annual course reviews are completed on schedule, and turn their findings into operational improvements

• Hold operational ownership of the platforms that support the Foundations curriculum, including Med Map and Med Map Reporting,…