Education Program Specialist - iCELS

University of Massachusetts Medical School

  • Worcester, Massachusetts
  • 22 days ago

    Highlights

    Manage details of educational programming, including staff assignments, faculty facilitator assignments, space, and equipment reservations to meet educational requirements and learning objectives of multifaceted, multimodal events. Overview: Under the direction of the Administrator/Director, or designee, the Educational Program Specialist is responsible for coordinating curriculum scheduling, collaborating with instructors to design, implement, and assess multi-modal medical education.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationWorcester, Massachusetts

    Description

    Overview:

    Under the direction of the Administrator/Director, or designee, the Educational Program Specialist is responsible for coordinating curriculum scheduling, collaborating with instructors to design, implement, and assess multi-modal medical education. The Education Program Specialist serves as a front-line customer service interface to UMMS faculty, learners and external clients/collaborators. They are responsible for producing technical and teaching/training documentation, administering teaching/training environments and providing multimedia support and production in designated learning facilities.

    Responsibilities:

    Responsibilities

    • Build and sustain strong relationships between internal/external educational collaborators.
    • Serve as liaison between course directors, other education-related departments/groups and learners.
    • Demonstrate optimized bi-directional communication with UMMS collaborative departments and/or external customers to produce desired session and data outcomes.
    • Triage complex requests and inquiries from faculty, learners, staff and clients to ensure that operations are optimized. Resolve minor issues with constituents as needed.
    • Manage details of educational programming, including staff assignments, faculty facilitator assignments, space, and equipment reservations to meet educational requirements and learning objectives of multifaceted, multimodal events.
    • Work with faculty/educational collaborators in producing detailed course schedules and coordinating multiple daily course events.
    • Assist faculty in the design and development of technology-enhanced educational sessions /materials.
    • Translate, convert and disseminate learning materials into requirements for varied educational resources, equipment needs and material setup for onsite/offsite session to meet educational objectives.
    • Manage real-time education program delivery to meet all scheduled and expected objectives.
    • Participate in discussion and development of quality improvement initiatives to optimize workflows.
    • Interact with educational team to support all required academic/administrative needs.
    • Maintain confidentiality of oral communication and written records.
    • Coordinate curriculum scheduling.
    • Collaborate with instructors to design, implement, and assess multi-modal medical education.
    • Collaborate to create program schedules and assign appropriate SPs and resources.
    • Create and disseminate session materials to support learners and the iCELS team.
    • Compile metrics on learning event impact.
    • Update required resource tools to support scheduling tasks.
    • Manage customer relationships with clients.
    • Work with staff accountant on construction of estimates and invoices for events.
    • Collaborate to schedule standardized patients to participate in scheduled cases by analyzing phenotype and learning requirements and program objectives.
    • Update CAAP database and WIW scheduling software.
    • Perform other duties as required.
    Qualifications:

    REQUIRED:

    • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
    • 1 year experience
    • Demonstrated ability to make independent and autonomous decisions
    • Attention to detail
    • Effective oral and written communication skills
    • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Products
    • Ability to prioritize and problem solve
    • Ability to travel to offsite locations
    • Ability to meet deadlines

    PREFERRED:

    • Previous experience in an academic healthcare setting
    • Preferred experience in medical education

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