Associate Clinical Coordinator – Principal PA Faculty

Samuel Merritt; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA seeks a Principal PA Faculty member to teach, conduct scholarship, and contribute to program administration.

On-site role with duties including curriculum development, student advisement, exam administration, and community engagement to support the PA program’s excellence.

Qualifications

• Nationally certified and state-licensed PA.
• Minimum of a Master's degree.
• 2 years clinical experience or teaching in an academic setting.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and written/verbal communication.
• Ability to use statistical software and analytics.
• Proficient with MS Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint).
• Experience teaching in an academic setting and clinical instruction.
• Active medical practice with expertise in clinical topics.

Responsibilities

• Provide classroom instruction as instructor of record and guest lectures.
• Develop, revise, and align program mission and competencies.
• Participate in student recruitment, admissions and selection.
• Evaluate student performance and progress.
• Contribute to curriculum design and coordination.
• Advise students and provide academic counseling.
• Coordinate exams, OSCEs, and summative assessments.
• Maintain campus office hours and on-site presence.
• Support budget management and external relationships.
• Engage in scholarly activity and community partnerships.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Written and verbal communication

Statistical software

MS Office proficiency

Clinical practice

Teaching experience

Education

Master's degree

Doctoral degree in healthcare

Tools

MS Office Suite

Excel

PowerPoint

SPSS/R

Job description

## Job Description Summary: 30% Administrative / 70% Teaching, Scholarship, Service - Under the supervision of the Program Director, the PA Principal Faculty member is responsible for teaching, service, scholarship, and administrative elements within the Physician Assistant Program.**Duties and Responsibilities:**PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:* Provide classroom instruction preparing and presenting relevant, current course content as instructor of record and guest lectures in other courses as needed.* Developing, reviewing and revising as necessary the mission statement, goals and competencies of the program.* Participate in student recruitment, admission, and selection process.* Evaluating student performance.* Participate in curriculum committee, provide input to faculty in designing, implementing, coordinating and evaluating the curriculum.* Performing student advisement and academic counseling.* Participate with student remediation activities as required.* Support with data collection, analysis, and determination of actions for evaluation in the Program.ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:* Faculty need to be available on site for students and events as necessary.* Post and maintain office hours of 4 hours a week with an average of 3 days each week on campus.* Compose, edit and continually review information for the PA Student Handbook.* Review educational literature and learning media to keep abreast of new teaching/learning strategies.* Help develop, implement and modify as necessary academic calendars for didactic students.* Help participate orientation program of incoming class.* Help coordinate, prepare, and administer preclinical summative examination, final summative examination, and OSCE examinations.* Effective budget management.* Help to monitor program academic integrity.* Maintain collaborative external relationships to facilitate valuable clinical experiences and community relationships. Provides at least one introduction to DCE for a new preceptor or site annually.* Help with student job placement and alumni relations.* Participates in various community and civic activities.* Participate in scholarly activity.The responsibilities are intended to be examples of duties and are not intended to be all-inclusive. There may be other duties as assigned. Assignments may be adjusted at the discretion of the Program Director and the Dean. **Minimum Qualfications****irements*** Nationally certified, state licensed physician assistant.* Minimum of a Master's degree.* 2 years clinical experience or in teaching in an academic setting.* Excellent interpersonal skills.* Ability to utilize statistical software and apply analytics.* Strong critical thinking, organization, and problem solving skills.* Proficient written and verbal language skills.* Competent in working with MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).* 2 years experience in teaching in an academic setting.* Actively practices medicine.* Expertise in teaching physical diagnosis, varieties of clinical medicine topics, pharmacotherapeutics and/or running lab groups.* Doctoral degree in health care related field **Work Environment:**Office Location: Oakland Campus – Onsite* This is an onsite position based in Oakland, CA, requiring regular in-office presence to support daily operations, collaboration, and student or team engagement.* Work is performed primarily on campus in a dynamic academic environment, with direct interaction across multidisciplinary teams. **Mental/Physical Requirements**:This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person, video and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.