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About the Role

The Director of Curriculum and Assessment leads curriculum design, assessment, and improvement for the Occupational Therapy Programs, ensuring integrity, alignment, and continuous improvement across all USAHS campuses and pathways. This role involves collaboration with faculty and academic leaders to promote instructional excellence and curricular coherence, aligning with institutional outcomes and accreditation standards.

Responsibilities

Manage Course Coordinators, providing leadership, mentoring, and training.
Institute and oversee course maintenance policies for collaborative instructional development and innovation.
Educate faculty on the curriculum plan, including integration, threads, and instructional roles.
Mentor faculty in developing syllabi, objectives, and learning activities.
Ensure proper sequencing of courses within the curriculum.
Design, implement, and refine systems for evaluating curriculum effectiveness.
Align assessment strategies with institutional learning outcomes, accreditation standards, and program goals.
Maintain documentation and assessment processes to meet accreditation requirements.
Collect and analyze data on curriculum effectiveness, including learning outcomes and course evaluations.
Identify trends, gaps, and areas for improvement in courses and programs.
Report assessment findings and recommendations to stakeholders and accrediting bodies.
Collaborate with stakeholders to implement data-driven improvements through curriculum governance.
Serve as a liaison during accreditation reviews related to curriculum and programmatic assessment.
Ensure curriculum review is an ongoing process, culminating in an Annual Curriculum Review.
Coordinate and assist with agenda formation for the Annual Curriculum Review.
Provide program oversight of the course maintenance process, ensuring approved changes reflect quality and alignment.
Maintain master documentation related to the curriculum, including mapping, matrices, and revision documentation.
Ensure content, learning activities, and assessments in master courses are sequentially aligned with program learning outcomes.
Collaborate with academic leadership to enforce and implement quality and course design standards.
Participate in course development and revision projects, leading SMEs in curriculum design.
Work collaboratively to execute a system of quality assurance for course preparation, delivery, and faculty performance.
Collect and analyze course and program outcome data and report metrics to academic leadership.
Make recommendations for revision based on data.
May perform other duties as assigned by program leadership.

Requirements

Minimum of five years teaching experience in a first professional program.
Excellent organization and time management skills.
Ability to work independently with numerous projects/tasks with little or no supervision.
Ability to work in a team environment.
Fluency with digital learning, including teaching in online, hybrid, and blended environments.
Experience integrating educational technologies and/or clinical simulation into teaching and learning.
Demonstrated commitment to lifelong learning and professional development.
Instructional design or curricular design experience highly preferred.
Prior leadership experience preferred.

Skills

Curriculum design
Curriculum assessment
Curriculum improvement
Instructional design
Leadership
Mentoring
Training
Faculty education
Syllabus development
Learning activity construction
Course sequencing
Assessment strategy alignment
Accreditation standards
Data analysis
Reporting
Curriculum governance
Course maintenance
Quality assurance
Digital learning
Online teaching
Hybrid teaching
Blended teaching
Educational technology integration
Clinical simulation integration
Collaboration
Time management
Independent work
Teamwork

Location

Campus travel required a minimum of 30% of the time.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Minimum of five years teaching experience
Prior leadership experience preferred

Education Level

Advanced doctoral degree preferred
Advanced master’s degree considered
Clinical doctorate considered

About the Company

The mission of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences is the development of professional health care practitioners through innovation, individualized, and quality classroom, clinical, and distance education.