Program Director - Master of Occupational Therapy (MSOT)

Occupational Summary

The Program Director for the Master of Occupational Therapy (MSOT) program provides strategic, academic, operational, and fiscal leadership, serving as the institution’s official, designated ACOTE-compliant Program Director. This role maintains single-point accountability for program administration, curricular integrity, and continuous accreditation compliance while balancing administrative oversight with teaching, scholarship, and service.

Role and Responsibilities

• Exercise independent discretion by leading the instructional and clinical design elements of the MSOT program to ensure strategic integration of advanced educational frameworks.
• Retain final authority for program budgeting and fiscal oversight; collaborate with the Dean regarding personnel, facilities, equipment, and technology needs.
• Ensure a robust administrative infrastructure that supports student success, faculty retention, and continuous program sustainability.
• Serve as the official ACOTE liaison, ensuring continuous, unwavering compliance with all ACOTE standards, policies, and reporting timelines.
• Lead all accreditation activities, including self-study preparation, substantive change reporting, annual reporting, and site visit coordination.
• Maintain accurate, centralized accreditation documentation and proactively implement corrective actions for any identified deficiencies.
• Retain final authority for MSOT curriculum design, implementation, and systematic revision, ensuring evidence-based coursework that reflects modern OT practices.
• Direct program-level assessment processes, analyzing metrics including student progression, graduation rates, NBCOT pass rates, fieldwork performance, and graduate/employer feedback.
• Incorporate learning experiences that explicitly address intraprofessional collaboration, delegation, and team-based practice models between OTs and OTAs.
• Manage faculty recruitment, workload assignment, onboarding, evaluation, and professional development, ensuring all instructors meet ACOTE qualification metrics.
• Foster an academic culture focused on excellence, scholarship, mentoring, and professional identity formation.
• Oversee student advising, remediation, and retention processes, ensuring students are provided accurate pathways to certification and state licensure.
• Deliver high-quality instruction within the MSOT curriculum as assigned.
• Maintain an active agenda of scholarly activity (teaching/learning, application, or clinical practice) consistent with institutional and accreditation expectations.
• Participate in institutional governance, community outreach, and professional service within the occupational therapy field.
• Other duties as assigned.