Administrative Director of Medical Education

Location:

Avera Health

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Primarily days with possible weekends/evenings/holidays (United States of America)

Position Highlights

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview
Responsible for building, sustaining, and operationalizing Avera Medical Group's medical education strategy. This role focuses on strategic academic partnerships, faculty development, and medical student tracking to support long-term physician recruitment and workforce planning.

What you will do

• Maintains and develops strategic relationships with regional medical schools, serving as the primary administrative liaison between Avera Medical Group and academic institutions. Ensures alignment of partnerships with organizational priorities.
• Identifies opportunities to deepen engagement through expanded rotations, longitudinal experiences, and collaborative programming
• Designs, implements, and maintains faculty development curriculum for physicians teaching medical students. Partners with the Physician Director of Medical Education to ensure curriculum aligns with best practices in medical education.
• Coordinates onboarding, ongoing development, and supports resources for physician faculty.
• Oversees systems and processes to track medical student learners across rotations and sites.
• Maintains accurate data to support physician recruitment pipelines and workforce planning. Collaborates with recruitment, physician relationship development, and regional leadership. Uses data and insights to identify high-potential recruitment opportunities.
• Provides administrative leadership for medical education initiatives across the medical group. Partners closely with physician leaders to align educational efforts with organizational strategy. Ensures compliance with institutional policies, accreditation standards, and affiliation agreements.
• Develops and manages budgets related to medical education programming.
• Serves as a liaison across clinical sites, academic partners, physician leaders, and executive leadership.
• Supports long-term planning for undergraduate medical education growth and sustainability.

Essential Qualifications
The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Bachelor's healthcare administration, education, business or related field
• Medical education, academic partnerships or physician engagement
• Experience designing and operationalizing programs from concept through execution
• Exceptional relationship management and collaborative skills across disciplines and organiztaions
• High level of organization, analytical, and communication skills

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Master's healthcare administration, education, business or related field
• Familiarity with undergraduate medical education (UME) structures and workflows
• Experience working with medical schools or academic health systems
• Experience supporting workforce planning initiatives

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.
• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement
• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran Status, or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-605-504-4444 or send an email to talent@avera.org.