Program Director, Health Information Management

Program Director, Health Information Management

Oversees and manages the organization, administration, periodic review, planning, development, and general effectiveness of the Health Information Management Program. Essential functions include overseeing and managing the Health Information Management Program, responsible for accreditation activities, providing leadership by assuring accreditation standards are met, preparing and administering budget, supervising and assessing the performance of assigned staff, serving as a liaison between the college and health care facilities, overseeing didactic and clinical instructional process including student evaluations and schedules, securing and maintaining meaningful Professional Practice Experiential Learning contracts with local and distant Professional Practice Experiential Learning sites, counseling and advising students, coordinating development of curriculum and revisions, preparing course schedules and making instructional assignments, performing didactic instruction and evaluation of program courses, marketing program and recruiting students, coordinating Advisory Committee and all program admission activities, providing input for outcomes assessment and program objectives, developing and maintaining effective communication with prospective applicants, students, graduates, faculty, clinical instructors, and community, conducting faculty, clinical instructor, and staff meetings, maintaining required BCI and up to date immunizations.

Required qualifications include a Bachelor's Degree, certification as a Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) or Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), minimum of five years' professional experience in Health Information Management, demonstrated experience supervising, planning, assigning, scheduling, and ensuring the quality of the work of others, demonstrated experience effectively making decisions that have major implications on the management and operations within a department, demonstrated experience forecasting, planning, maintaining, preparing, and monitoring a business area's budget, demonstrated effectiveness in a role requiring dynamic and abstract problem-solving methods in adaptive situations, successfully completing a Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCI) Background Check to include fingerprinting, social security number trace, county record search, state search, and a check of Federal Bureau of Investigation records, and providing proof of required immunizations as specified at:

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include comprehensive knowledge of Health Information Management theories, concepts, and practices with the ability to use them in complex, difficult and/or unprecedented situations as it pertains to the departmental focus, demonstrated intermediate proficiency with Microsoft products, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel, and OneNote, ability to independently set goals and determine best course of action to achieve desired results, demonstrated advanced project management skills, excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, strong organizational, time-management skills, and is results-oriented, strong commitment to providing excellent customer service, ability to work effectively in a dynamic and changing work environment requiring flexibility and teamwork, ability to confidentially and discreetly handle subject matters requiring privacy and sensitivity, ability to collaborate, negotiate and resolve conflicts on major projects, ability to develop and maintain relationships with key contacts to enhance workflow and quality, and possess sensitivity to appropriately respond to the needs of students and the community.

Critical competencies include communication, quality of work, and continuous improvement. Very important competencies include service focus and collaboration. Important competencies include adaptability and time utilization.