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.
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