Health Sciences Clinical Support Manager

Hillsborough College; United States; On-site; USD 60,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Hillsborough College in Florida seeks a program administrator to direct clinical placement, compliance, and coordination for 2,000+ nursing and health sciences students across 300+ clinical sites. Contracts are evaluated with the College Legal Department and monitored annually for completeness before expiration.

The role requires negotiating affiliation agreements, maintaining regulatory checks, and leading orientation programs while collaborating with health system educators and faculty to

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree required with at least one year of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate and manage 300+ clinical affiliation agreements.
• Develop processes to ensure timely compliance for 2000+ students.
• Manage background checks and drug screens for students and faculty.
• Select and configure software for documentation of clinical readiness.
• Lead orientation and coordinate with multiple programs and partners.

Skills

Negotiation

Coordination

Regulatory compliance

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Verified Credentials

Castle Branch

My Clinical Exchange

E-Screen

Contract Safe

Job description

Compensation Range

$60,157.57 - $95,566.85

Position Summary

Hiring compensation range: $ 60,157.57 - $ 66,173.32 annually, depending on qualifications.

Job Summary

Responsible for directing comprehensive clinical placement, compliance, and coordination for 2,000+ Nursing students and Health Sciences students placed at any of 300+ clinical sites. Clinical contracts for each of the Clinical sites must be evaluated and coordinated with the College Legal Department and monitored annually to for completeness and accurate prior to expiration date.

Job Duties

• Negotiate & Manage 300+ clinical affiliation agreements to ensure agreements reside in a central repository, are up to date and unique details are highlighted, and are accessible to appropriate college personnel.
• Develop and refine processes to ensure timely adherence/compliance of 2000+ health sciences students with affiliation agreement requirements.
• Maintain contact with local and state regulatory agencies for requesting, documenting, and evaluation of annual background checks and drug screens for 2,000+ students and approximately 150 faculty through Verified Credentials.
• Selecting, negotiating, implementing, and configuration of software with multiple vendors, (Verified Credentials, Castle Branch, My Clinical Exchange, E-Screen, and Contract Safe) for documentation of clinical readiness for all students and faculty.
• Oversee Fundable Certificate requirements through meticulous record keeping, timely payment processing, and comprehensive certification tracking for 600+ professional certifications of graduates. This includes budget forecast. constant monitoring, and routine reporting to the Dean of Health Sciences.
• Provides leadership in the coordination of new student orientations for 15+ Health Science programs with multiple start dates. This includes standardized orientation protocols, comprehensive informational resources, and personalized support mechanisms that vary between each program.
• Initiates, cultivates and maintains professional relationships with health system clinical educators, college clinical coordinators, and faculty to ensure student/instructor timely compliance, clinical site satisfaction, and overall successful clinical placement and experience.
• Oversee coordination and reporting of 700+ prelicensure nursing students’ clinical placement and hospital onboarding requirements. This includes finding additional clinical placements through proactive and strategic networking.
• Lead the Hillsborough County Nursing Coordinating Council by collaborating with approximately 17 nursing programs and 10+ clinical partners to establish the Hillsborough County Master Rotation for all nursing students (from all colleges) at all Hillsborough County hospitals.
• Recruits, interviews and selects operational staff.
• Provides training and evaluation for all unit staff.

Minimum Qualifications

The position requires at least a Master's Degree and at least one year of prior-related work experience.

Closing Date

November 5, 2026.

Applications Deadline

Applications must be submitted by November 4, 2026 at 11:59pm.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Hillsborough College is an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion among our applicants and employees is critical to our success as a community partner. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical/mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, and military/veteran status. Preference will also be given to veterans and spouses who are eligible under the Veterans' Preference Law. At time of application, submittal of Form DD214 is the minimum requirement for veterans' preference claim. Note: Please upload your DD214 as an attachment as part of your application at the time of submission. The selected candidate identified for this position will be required to successfully complete a Level II criminal background check, which includes fingerprinting. Hillsborough College participates in the US E-Verify program.

About the College

Founded in 1968, HC is currently the fifth largest community college in Florida’s State College System, serving more than 42,000 students each year at its five campuses, three centers and online platform. HC offers more than 200 academic options including the associate in art and associate in science degrees, college credit certificates, postsecondary adult vocational certificates, advanced technical diplomas and certificates, as well as continuing education and lifelong learning courses. The College has an annual budget of over $135 million and employs more than 2,200. Over 84 percent of HC graduates stay in the local community, and together, HC and its former students contribute more than $1.3 billion in added income and economic impact to Hillsborough County.