Surgical Technology/ Program Director
Southeastern College
- West Palm Beach, FL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Creating and maintaining core curriculum
- Communicating and monitoring delivery of core curriculum
- Delivering their own course lectures
- Facilitating student engagement
- Working one-on-one with students
- Assessing students and providing developmental feedback
Program Directors oversee the development and monitor the delivery of academic programs and are responsible for ensuring a quality education for students in their programs. The Surgical Technology Program Director must have:
- An Associate's degree
- 4 years of experience in the field
- Certified CST
- Review program curriculum to ensure materials are up-to-date
- Review courses within their respective programs
- Review text books, equipment, and materials
- Create and modify course control document as necessary
- Work with program coordinators to ensure consistency of delivery across campuses
- Meet with local advisory boards to ensure programs meet community/employer needs
- Develop and monitor externship programs
- Prepare for and facilitate annual faculty convocation to ensure programs are up-to-date
- Review Course Control Document (CCD)
- Prepare syllabus
- Create lesson plans
- Create exams, quizzes, and projects/assignments
- Coordinate with librarian and bookstore for availability of materials
- Administer pre-test/post-test
- Deliver lectures/facilitate labs
- Grade projects and exams
- Provide progress reports/mid-term feedback
- Maintain grade book
- Enforce policies (attendance, dress code, no food and drink…)
- Monitor student progress and follow-up as needed
- Take daily attendance and enforce attendance policy
- Follow-up with students who miss a class (phone calls)
- Report attendance issues to the Dean
- Answer student questions
- Be available for one-on-one assistance/tutoring
- Maintain grade books
- Adhere to departmental grading policies
- Provide Dean with weekly reports
- Provide students with mid-term evaluations
- Submit final grades
- Monitor equipment and supply needs
- Maintain classroom
- Maintain any relevant licensures and certifications
- Attend campus faculty meetings
- Participate in committees and knowledge sharing forums
- Prepare for and participate in convocation
- Academic administration
- Curriculum development
- Business planning
- Management – communicating with and facilitating discussions among a diverse range of highly educated professionals across a variety of disciplines
- Goal setting – setting reasonable, yet high targets, and creating a plan for attaining those targets
- Planning – organizing and prioritizing the needs and goals of several programs and departments
- Academic administration (college/university level)
- Career college teaching/management (program/department chair)
- Professional/executive education (administration)