Externship Academic Coordinator

As a program faculty member and representative of the Academic Affairs Department, they are responsible to assure attainment of student training objectives for the externship in qualification for graduation

Benefits You’ll Love:

• Tuition Waiver: Enjoy a tuition waiver after 6 months of employment (including eligible dependents). This means FREE UTI or Concorde Tuition for you AND your Immediate Family.
• Retirement Matching: 50% match on the first 6% of your contributions after 90 days.

Responsibilities

• Provide support and guidance to students to place them in externships

o Work with partners and businesses to develop new externship sites
o Assist in the development of student job leads and advise externs as needed
o Working with the Program Director, in consultation with the Academic Dean, assign students to their externship sites
o Achieve assigned extern to hire metric of 50%
o Attend and direct assigned externship orientation
o Participate in commencement ceremonies

• Manage necessary activities to provide site coordination and support

o Conduct site visitations, as needed, for assigned externs, completing site visitation reports and documentation on a timely basis
o Assure prompt and accurate receipt of requisite reports from students and sites
o Coordinate with local campus extern coordinators to meet externship outcomes

• Coordinate the exchange of externship information and communication with internal stakeholders and partners to track and report on externship outcomes and objectives
• Supervise externship training in compliance with Academic Affairs Department policies and guidelines

o Review all externship evaluations and direct information, as appropriate, to the Program Director
o Attend staff, departmental and Advisory Board meetings as directed
o Maintain a log of outside activities and furnish to the Program Director
o Assure compliance with all School policies and procedures
o Assist with PAC meetings as requested
o Remain current on developments, practices and procedures, and equipment relating to their program and professional specialty

• Instruct classes as needed
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Must meet appropriate teacher qualifications for the state and program
• Licensure - Varies by state, campus location, course and accreditation and licensing requirements
• Education - Varies by state, campus location, course and accreditation and licensing requirements
• Experience - Varies by state, campus location, course and accreditation and licensing requirements
• Minimum two (2) years of hands-on front office administration experience (preferred)
• Minimum of one (1) experience with Medicaid/Medicare claims, scheduling, patient accounts, and patient billing (preferred)
• Proficient with medical file coding (CPC or AAPC preferred)
• Basic Marketing and/or sales experience (preferred)

o Use computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to process transactions, store documents, enter data, or perform assigned tasks