EMT Program Director

Job Title:  Emergency Medical Technician - Program Director

Are you passionate about ensuring emergency health care in your community is adequately staffed?  Have you trained new hires or oversaw student interns in the EMS or Paramedic field? Are you ready to train the next generation? The College of Health Care Professions - Austin is hiring caring, compassionate industry professionals who love learning.
 
Our Program Directors enjoy managing a small staff of industry professionals who love teaching and supervising the delivery of an excellent competency-based education. As a Program Director, you collaborate with the campus Leadership Team, including the Campus President and Director of Education, to manage the growth and development of the program, provide training for instructors, monitor student outcomes, and lead through vision, professionalism, and integrity. 

Job Description

The Program Director creates and monitors the meaningful learning of competencies in the curriculum and proactively supports all facets of the blended learning environment. S/He builds an educational environment through excellence in learning-centered instruction that will enable graduates to fulfill the evolving needs of the marketplace. S/He encourages a culture of learning that values mutual responsibility and respect, lifelong learning and ethics as well as personal and professional development. In addition, the Program Director collaborates across all functional areas at the campus and develops strategies promoting excellence through the student life cycle from enrollment to graduation and career placement. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.  

• Supervise and evaluate instructional staff            
• Direct advisory committee activities for program.
• Ensure compliance with all state and federal regulations.
• Monitor instructor lesson plans and their posting.
• Monitor online activity for students enrolled in online courses.
• Screen instructional applicants
• Review curriculum and textbooks with instructors, program managers, advisory board, and school director.
• Review student evaluations of instructors and programs, externship evaluations, employer surveys, and graduate surveys with the school director.
• Interview prospective students during enrollment process as needed.
• Conduct new student orientation as needed.
• Review completion and placement rates with placement manager and school director.
• Schedule in-service training
• Develop yearly start date calendar.
• Assist registrar in maintaining employee and student records.
• Monitor TWC, federal and accrediting standards compliance.  
• Monitor policy/procedure compliance.
• Assist with new program development.
• Assist with student advising
• Assist Campus President with administrative functions
• Other jobs as assigned.

Education/Experience:

Bachelor’s degree

Current Certification as an EMT or Paramedic

Minimum four consecutive years certified as an EMT or higher

2 years certified as an EMS instructor with a minimum of 120 hours

Successfully led an EMT basic course

EMS Coordinator Certification (Not required for hire, but must obtain as a contingency of employment).