System Manager Academic Partnerships

Company: Dignity Health System Office
Location: Rancho Cordova
Posted on: May 14, 2022

Job Description:

Overview
CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S., from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services, CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources, CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen, both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

Responsibilities
Job Summary / Purpose The System Manager, Academic Partnerships provides system wide support for the development, standardization, implementation, coordination, evaluation and continuous improvement of CommonSpirit Health's academic partnerships, relationships, and joint programs. This includes growing academic partnerships in support of the national nurse residency program and its outcomes. This role collaborates with colleges and universities to drive clinical education alignment with clinical workforce needs, and includes partnering with CommonSpirit Health nursing, medicine, allied health, and system stakeholders to innovate programs that accelerate the healthcare workforce pipeline and transition to practice for new health care providers and clinicians. The role represents Academic Partnerships at the system level. This is a fully remote position.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for the quality, accessibility, and standardization of academic partnerships, relationships, communications, and collaborative programs within our ministry
• Designs, organizes, implements, and evaluates joint academic and clinical programs that facilitate the professional growth and advancement of students and current and future employees
• Garners excitement and support for building best-in-class programs, activities, and events and represents CommonSpirit Health in discussions with prospective and current academic partners
• Supports the implementation, evaluation, and revision of partnership standards, structures, non-credit and degree-granting programs, contracts, policy, processes, and operations
• Designs and deploys standardized processes and structures for holding self and others accountable to program goals system wide, including the alignment of academic management platforms and academic affiliation agreements
• Works with system, division, and facility leadership to ensure processes and structures are deployed consistently across the system to guarantee expectations are established and accountability is maintained
• Integrates outcome evaluation with organizational needs assessment, data, and trends to determine priority partnerships and monitor program effectiveness, including community benefit and contributions to healthcare workforce development
• Develops, implements and reports outcomes of program metrics in alignment with local, regional, state, and national healthcare industry workforce trends
• Develops and maintains proficiency in the use of academic management platforms including creation/scheduling/implementation of events, uploading users, utilization of reporting capabilities, running quality reports and reporting to leaders
• Provides consultative guidance to college and university partners in healthcare workforce development
• Researches and recommends innovative strategies and tactics for healthcare workforce development in order to prepare the workforce of the future
• Identifies, develops, and obtains grant-funded workforce development opportunities
• Permeates principles of CommonSpirit Health's mission; nursing vision; values; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB); Patient Experience (PEX); into partnerships, relationships and programs
• Ensures a consistent, principle-driven brand and communications across the system, ensuring CommonSpirit Health's recognition as a valuable thought-partner and supporter of the healthcare workforce through clinical experiences, internships, externships, returnships, residencies, fellowships and more
• Builds and maintains strategic internal and external partnerships (e.g., continuing medical education (CME) offices, human resources, talent acquisition, learning & development, Dignity Health Global Education, national councils, government agencies, foundations, State Boards of Nursing, etc.).
• Responsible for clinical employee professional development planning, in the areas of academic preparation and advancement (including mentorship, Credit for Prior Learning, articulation, and joint faculty appointments).
• Ensures a culture of inclusion and diversity Qualifications
  Required Education and Experience
  • Required Bachelor's Degree in related discipline; Master's Degree in Nursing preferred, Doctorate preferred
  • Minimum of 2 years leadership and supervisory experience
  • Minimum of 2 years clinical experience Required Licensure and Certifications
    • Active, unencumbered Registered Nurse licensure Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training
      • Experience in healthcare workforce development in higher education or government settings
      • Experience writing and managing state and/or federal grants
      • Experience leading large scale program development, implementation, and evaluation
      • Experience in academic affiliation agreement management
      • Emotional intelligence: Self-control, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness
      • Ability to coach and develop others
      • Passion (a strong liking or desire for or to some activity, object, or concept)
      • Role model (a person whose behavior in a particular role is imitated by others)

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