ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Job Title:  Program Director – Cardiac Sonography

Summary:  The Cardiac Sonography Program Director is responsible for leveraging their expertise to develop, maintain, and deliver education services to students thru creating and maintaining core curriculum, ensuring delivery of core curriculum, preparing course plans and material.  The CS PD will assure achievement of the programs’ goals and outcomes, and is responsible for all aspects of the program, including the organization, administration, continuous review, planning, development and general effectiveness of the program.  The PD must provide supervision, administration and coordination of the instructional staff in the academic and clinical phases of the education program.   The CS PD will also ensure continues compliance with Federal, State, Programmatic, and Institutional accreditation agencies.

This position also requires adherence to CHCP’s core values, which are the basic elements of how we go about our work. They are the practices we use (or should be using) every day in everything we do. Our core values are a small set of timeless guiding principles, which we live by and include:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.   

• Direct advisory committee activities for program.
• Supervise Instructional Staff.
• 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 DOE, and CP.
• Interview prospective students during enrollment process as needed.
• Conduct new student orientation as needed.
• Review completion and placement rates with Director of Career Services and Campus President.
• Oversee and conduct in-service training.
• Develop annual start date calendar.
• Assist registrar in maintaining employee and student records.
• Monitor TWC, federal and accrediting standards compliance.   
• Adheres to academic policies/procedures for compliance.
• Assist with new program development.
• Assist with student advising.
• Assist Director of Education with administrative functions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience:

Bachelor’s degree 

Possess the appropriate credential 

Possess three years of teaching or occupational experience in the field

Possess a minimum of two years of full-time experience as a registered sonographer in the professional sonography field.

Have proficiency in curriculum development, instruction, methodologies, evaluation, and assessment.

Language Ability:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.   Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Math Ability:

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry. 

Reasoning Ability: 

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. 

Computer Skills: 

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Word Processing software; Spreadsheet software and Internet software.

Certificates and Licenses: 

Certification, Registry and/or Licensure in field of instruction approved and recognized by state regulation agency and accrediting organization

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

This position supervises instructional staff.