Academic Administrator

Academic Administrator I role at University of Rochester

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Job Location (Full Address): 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 14642

Opening: Worker Subtype:
Regular

Time Type: Full time

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

Department: 400169 Offices for Medical Education

Work Shift: UR - Day (United States of America)

Range: UR URG 106 H

Compensation Range: $21.36 - $29.90

Responsibilities: The Office of Curriculum and Assessment is situated in the Offices for Medical Education in the School of Medicine and Dentistry and is responsible for supporting the MD educational activities. This includes, but is not limited to, collaborating with the medical school community to develop and implement curriculum assessment evaluations, providing faculty with reliable and useful data on the teaching and learning process for the medical school.

Supporting scholarship in education, research, clinical teaching, assessment and curricular design provides data to foster innovative initiatives in medical education.

This position serves as the expert for the Medical Schools evaluation program and ensures evaluations are created, scheduled, and deployed for the medical school activities and courses. Works closely with the Offices of Curriculum and Assessment Administrator and the Director of Assessment. In addition, this position administers two medical school courses within the curriculum.

Essential Functions:

• Oversees and manages the curriculum evaluation and assessment program, Med Hub, which is a proprietary web-based data collection program. Utilizing the Med Hub program, develops, administers, and collects surveys and reports from students and faculty in support of the mission and goals of the University’s School of Medicine Medical Education curriculum. Serves as Med Hub’s primary point of contact for undergraduate medical education and maintains continuous dialogue with proprietary company representative.
• Prepares and compiles reports, synthesizing data, utilizing sophisticated statistical analysis software (SPSS) to provide quantitative analysis as these reports relate to the assessment of medical education and the Double Helix Curriculum.
• Plans and designs the approach and sequence of steps in survey construction and dissemination, collection of data, interpretation of findings, documentation, and reporting of findings in a structured, professional format.
• Partners with URMC’s Institute for Innovation Education (this includes Miner Library and OME-IT) as needed.
• Provides overall responsibility for managing the curriculum evaluation and curriculum mapping process, including but not limited to: planning, implementing, and coordinating data collection and working with various organizations to upload material.
• Responds to requests for data from the medical school’s Curriculum Steering Committee, Curriculum Instruction Committees, Course/Clerkship Directors and Academic Administrators, as well as other OME staff, serving as the primary resource, consultant, and survey developer. Determines the scope of each request and procures the appropriate survey/report necessary to extract and deliver the required data. Formulates data into summary reports and presentations.
  
  Serves as expert in survey writing and provides guidance to end-users on the capabilities of the web-based program/system.
• Provides specialized reports for departmental Chairs (biannual), course leaders, and the Curriculum Steering Committee, as well as for Education Department Chairs for faculty promotion reviews and for the Medical Student Promotions and Review Board for review of medical student progress and compliance.
• Provides new and ongoing training to users of the Med Hub web-based program, including staff and faculty. Serves as a vital member and trainer of the Medical School’s…