Director, Continuing Medical Education

Director, Continuing Medical Education
Description

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Purpose:

The Director provides overall leadership to the Division of Continuing Medical Education (CME) in the College of Medicine. The Director is a value-added partner, delivering effective oversight to CME with priorities driven by requests and requirements. The Director is a senior leadership role within the division providing strategic planning, financial and leadership support and works with college, university, regional and national leaders to develop to implement solutions that achieve CME and the college’s priorities and outcomes.

The Director will work with the Associate Dean, CME in advancing institution level initiatives in areas of strategic priority. The Director is a member of the national Continuing Medical Education manager and director team as well as the College’s Finance and Admin team and will work with the teams to effectively integrate program management with the strategic, administrative and academic activities of the college.

The Director acts as a delegate of the Associate Dean and represents CME on local, regional and national committees. The Director collaborates with the Associate Dean, and others as needed across the province, to address complex, sensitive and strategically significant issues.

Nature of Work:  Under the direction of the Associate Dean, the Director is responsible for providing strategic and administrative leadership for CME. This role will work in partnership with various internal and external stakeholders. The incumbent will work to lead CME in identifying learning needs of healthcare professionals across the province. This role will oversee the development and delivery of professional, curricular, instructional, continuing medical education with the ultimate goal of improving patient care in the province of Saskatchewan and enable the design, development and delivery of innovative and effective continuing education programs, curricula, and courses.

This position requires a high level of integrity, discretion and judgment, along with knowledge of the higher education teaching and learning literature, and national and international practices in educational, curriculum development and accreditation. A key focus of the role is to understand and analyze environments within the College of Medicine and the Saskatchewan Health Authority and help develop services and strategies within CME to best fit these environments and meet local physician learning needs.

The Director must deal with emerging and unpredictable events in a sensitive and timely manner as well as lead a team of highly skilled professionals and collaborating faculty in this work. The position requires a commitment to an exceptional standard of service and continuous improvement.

Accountabilities:

Provides overall leadership for CME based on the annual operational plan and budget

Responsible for the overall effective financial performance of CME, including ensuring development of an annual operating budget and attainment of planned deliverables within budget resources

Ensuring the allocation of financial and human resources are managed responsibly and are aligned with institutional values, priorities and unit/college goals (in a cost recovery model)

Works to identify, develop and implement operational business plans, development and monitoring of key performance and accountability metrics and assist in the decision making of the CME/college in terms of strategic mission and vision

Participates in CME strategic planning ensuring that developed goals align with the university and college goals and contribute towards revenue enhancement, cost containment and maximizing academic performance, including enhanced curriculum delivery through CME to physicians and other health care professionals

Developing and overseeing publicity, promotion and communication strategies

Provides leadership and supervision to the large CME team; responsible for ensuring quality output in a timely fashion; responsible for providing feedback, orientation, training, disciplinary action & dismissals

Plans, develops and implements strategies on employee learning, job…