Medical Assistant - Program Director

Unitek College • Concord, CA

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About The Position

The Program Director – Medical Assistant provides leadership in the planning, development, and delivery of the Medical Assisting program while actively supporting the College’s mission and core values. In this role, the Program Director fosters academic excellence and student success through effective program oversight, faculty leadership, and continuous improvement initiatives. Responsibilities include managing faculty and resources, supporting curriculum quality, overseeing budgets, and monitoring program and student success metrics to ensure strong educational outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher with relevant work experience
• Certified Medical Assistant (RMA, CMA)
• Must be able to develop and maintain excellent relationships with a diverse staff and student population
• Must be able to participate on a high performing team.
• Must be able to manage and forecast program performance metrics
• Consistently demonstrate the highest levels of integrity
• Excellent organizational and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Participating in budget preparation and fiscal administration, curriculum development and coordination, determination of teaching assignments, supervision and evaluation of faculty, establishment of criteria and procedures, design and operation of program facilities, and selection of extramural facilities and coordination of instruction in those facilities.
• Holding periodic staff meetings to provide for subject matter review, instructional calibration, curriculum evaluation, and coordinating activities of full-time, part-time, and volunteer faculty or instructional staff.
• Maintaining copies of minutes of all advisory committee and staff meetings for not less than five years.
• Ensuring and maintenance of compliance with California Department of Consumer Affairs, ACCSC, BPPE, DOE and Title IV approval, accreditation, regulations and policies.
• Ensure orientation to Office Staff who provide extramural clinical practice.
• Ensure extramural facilities are visited at least once every ten clinical days.
• Ensure written contracts/affiliations with extramural clinical facilities.
• Monitoring of staff and student performance, motivating and advising students and staff as needed.
• Maintenance of student and faculty files.
• Monitor ongoing quality and performance of the program.
• Participate/Facilitate at minimum an annual Program Advisory Committee Meetings.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision starting the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
• 2 Weeks’ starting Vacation per year. Increasing based on years of service with company
• 12 paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holiday
• Company Paid Life Insurance at 1x’s your annual salary
• Leadership development and training for career advancement
• Tuition assistance and Forgiveness for you and your family up to 100% depending on program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager