Dir. Clinical Education - Physician Assistant (Remote with Travel)

Choose To Make A Difference: At West Coast University, we share a passion for students and transforming healthcare education! As a member for a certified Great Place to Work, you will join a collaborative, student\-centric culture valuing academic integrity, mutual respect, student learning, service, responsiveness, innovation, diversity, and stewardship. As a part of this team, you will guide students to do more than change their own lives – you will help change the lives of every patient they care for throughout their career. **This position is remote with travel requirements to Ontario, CA 5 times a year for a week at a time.** **You Will Make An Impact By:** The Campus Director of Clinical Education, Physician Assistant is a key member of the MPA Program leadership team responsible for the development, coordination, evaluation, and continual quality improvement of the clinical phase of the curriculum. During the development phase of the program, primary responsibilities include clinical site development, assuring clinical sites meet the program’s prescribed expectations for student learning and performance evaluation, oversight of affiliation agreements, planning and coordinating clinical faculty development, curricular development, and oversight of clinical year scheduling. **Essential Functions \& Responsibilities:*** Collaborate as a member of the programmatic leadership team, which may consist of the MPA Dean/Program Director, Medical Director, Director of Academic Education, and Director of Student Success to achieve a shared vision for the program. * Collaborate with the MPA Dean/Program Director, Medical Director, and the WCU Clinical Operations team to develop, evaluate, and maintain clinical sites and preceptors sufficient in number and quality to meet ARC\-PA *Standards*. * Communicate with MPA Dean/Program Director ongoing new site development and needed support to facilitate Program/Preceptor relationships, including support from the Medical Director. * Contacts, develops new and maintains established clinical affiliations, assuring all clinical sites meet the program’s prescribed learning outcomes, and securing appropriate contact and specific contractual agreement information including identified preceptors, number and types of placements, renewals, insurance and liability matters, and other pertinent issues important to seamless transition of students to clinical sites. * Prepares and submits to MPA Dean/Program Director annual program clinical calendar, individual student clinical placement schedule, and oversees preparation and formal distribution of student clinical placement assignments with detailed site, setting, and discipline\-related information on timeline set by MPA Dean/Program Director. * Provide leadership, oversight, and performance evaluation for the clinical phase team, as assigned. * Develops, maintains, and conducts a schedule for clinical site visitation and presents a written copy to the MPA Dean/Pro