Senior Specialist, Learning and Career Counseling

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 Master's 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.

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.