Medical Student Coordinator - Surgery

The Department of Surgery is seeking to hire a full time Health Professional Education Specialist to act as the Medical Resident Coordinator. In this role you would manages the following:

• Coordinate 4th year medical student electives
• Manage visiting student applications for medical student electives through the AAMC Visiting Student Learning Opportunities(VSLO) platform;
• Coordinate the Department of Surgery Visiting Student Scholarship Program
• Manage all sub-internships for surgical electives
• Assist directors with enforcing DGSOM and Department of Surgery policies related to sub-interns.
• Provide administrative assistance when issues arise and provide back-up support to the Surgery Clerkship Coordinator and coordinate special projects as needed throughout the year for the Office of Education.

Required:

• Bachelors Degree
• Minimum one (1) year experience Admissions and recruitment management and/or Student advising.
• Demonstrated knowledge of department, organization, and University policies, procedures, and directives.
• Knowledge of department and school/college general and major course requirements.
• Ability to work in diverse groups, including but not limited to students, staff, faculty, general public, and UCLA and external vendors.
• Must be well-organized, detail-oriented and able to handle complex projects.
• Must be capable of setting own priorities. Must be able to multi-task and focus on work in the midst of numerous interruptions and produce accurate results.
• Excellent organizational skills, analytical, and demonstrated attention to detail.
• Ability to complete work and meet established deadlines in an accurate and timely manner, and to manage short and competing deadlines.
• Knowledge of educational software and platforms. Demonstrated ability to analyze and seek solutions to enhance the user experience.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement processes, guidelines, and/or systems to improve efficiency and procedure.
• Synthesize information from a variety of sources for compiling and/or presenting information for learners