Senior Specialist, Learning and Career Counseling

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race color religion age national origin sex gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression genetic information disability veteran status or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Summary:

To provide expertise in planning implementing and evaluating of medical of health profession programs and students in collaboration with the Academic Enterprise faculty to assess student needs.

Scope: Office of Student Affairs and Admissions School of Medicine or School of Health Professions.

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on learning skills training to include test-taking study reading critical thinking/reading and other skills as identified during evaluation and assessment.

• Develop facilitate and deliver proactive workshops addressing personal academic and clinical experience issues commonly experienced by students.

• Maintain database systems for tracking students and issues pertinent to the success of the program.

• Assist with planning and administration of USMLE Step I Step II or other medical preparatory and peer mentoring programs course preparation study workshops residency preparation and other orientation activities.

• Assess students for learning issues and assist them in remediation of identified issues.

• Provide career guidance to students which may include an understanding of career development career theory as it applies to the medical student/physician.

• Assist with residency or student application issues CV (resumes) and personal statement development as well as review prior to submission as applicable to the program.

• Assist as needed with the peer tutoring program.

• Assist in the development and facilitation of strategies to prepare students for board/licensure exams.

• Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure.

• Performs related duties as required.

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Expertise in student academic performance assessment.
• Effective presentation skills for group and individual discussion.
• Ability to work effectively with a variety of professionals.
• Ability to plan organize set and accomplish goals.
• Ability to analyze/evaluate data and make appropriate recommendations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Doctoral degree in Education Educational Psychology Psychology or a related field plus two (2) years of experience in academic counseling in a higher education setting OR a Masters degree in Education Educational Psychology Psychology or a related field plus five (5) years of experience in academic counseling in a higher education setting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in an Academic health setting.

• Career Counseling in Medicine (AAMC program Careers in Medicine) or other healthcare discipline.

• Experience in the ERAS and NRMP process for the medical school.

• Previous experience interacting with medical and/or graduate students.

• Experience using diagnostic educational and learning tools. Assessments related to achievement intellectual functioning attention test anxiety DSM-V criteria learning styles and career development; including but not limited to: WAIS Woodcock-Johnson Nelson-Denny Myers Briggs LASSI.