Summary

The Bitonte College of Dentistry’s Director for Accreditation and Program Quality (the Director) provides project management and support for all aspects of accreditation for the college and manages continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities related to college accreditation. The director will oversee these processes on site and will work in conjunction with other positions to ensure implementation of CQI processes in affiliated partner clinics where students rotate.

Principal Functional Responsibilities

Accreditation

• Provide project management for accreditation, continuous quality improvement (CQI), and other special initiatives.
• Manage communications to and from the college’s accrediting bodies on behalf of the Dean and Associate Deans.
• Develop and maintain an effective archiving system for all accreditation-related documents for the college.
• Assist the college leadership in all aspects of the accreditation process.
• Ensure effective communication with faculty, staff, students, administrators, and university-level personnel related to the college’s accreditation activities and requirements.
• Coordinate data collection activities for accreditation across college, institutional offices, and affiliated external rotation sites and synthesize information for reporting to accreditation bodies. Data collection should cover institutional effectiveness, student success, clinical activities, service, and research activities, as described in the Commission On Dental Accreditation (CODA) standards.
• Manage, coordinate responses to, and submit (on behalf of the Dean) periodic surveys required by accreditors.
• Lead site visit planning and operations for accreditation site visits.
• Assist college leadership with new program development as it relates to college accreditation.
• Map accreditation standards against assessment tools to ensure that all competencies are properly evaluated.
• Develop the methodologies to report and collect data required by CODA for the yearly accreditation report.

Continuous Quality Improvement

• Develop, implement, and document continuous quality improvement processes aligned with accreditation standards.
• Manage and run reports to access and collect continuous quality improvement and other accreditation-related data.
• Support college standing committees responsible for review of CQI data.
• Ensure that the CQI parameters are reported and summarized in the Clinical CQI standard (currently CODA St. 5-3), Institutional Effectiveness Standard (currently CODA St. 1-2), and that these are aligned to the College’s KPIs reported for following the Strategic Plan.

Other Duties

Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in higher education administration, business, or other relevant field. Alternatively, a combination of bachelor’s degree and project management certificate also is acceptable.
• Prior work experience in higher education.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior administrative experience in higher education administration. Administrative experience in health professions education highly preferred.
• Prior project management experience. Project management experience in higher education is highly preferred.
• Prior higher education accreditation experience. Experience in health professions accreditation highly preferred.
• Basic understanding of digital survey platforms and tools.