As a leading healthcare education organization, Unitek Learning’s family of schools helps thousands of students launch and accelerate their careers every year. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.

We are looking for a Surgical Technologist to join our team as the Program Director for our Surg Tech program.

This position includes a $2,000.00 sign-on bonus and a $4,5000.00 performance bonus bonus!

The Program Director ensures the delivery of quality education by managing the assigned academic curriculum, ensuring proper instruction and delivery of resource materials, managing the learning environment, and facilitating the use of the institution’s curriculum and learning materials. The Program Director serves as the on-site program administrator and is the principal leader for the programs overseen and thus must possess academic or experiential qualifications that are related to the programs of study. The Program Director has shared responsibility for maximizing the successful retention and graduation rates of enrolled students.

• Ensure that assigned program maintains compliance with corporate, state and regulatory policies and procedures
• Monitor and maintain suitable textbook, supply, instructor’s material, and equipment inventory for program that are within those required/approved for the program
• Ensure approved curriculum and ancillary materials are being used by the instructor
• Participate in program budgeting process and maintain fiscal responsibility for programs overseen
• Assist Registrar with student schedules, ensuring accuracy and accord with approved curricula
• Develop schedule changes and submit them to the Registrar and Director of Education
• Participate in the evaluation of transfer credit review and award
• Establish and maintain advisory committees in order to ensure curricula are compatible with employer needs
• Collaborate with other college leadership staff to achieve desired organizational results in areas of customer satisfaction, student retention, staff retention, graduation rates and satisfactory student progress
• Ensures customer satisfaction by understanding student and employer needs, analyzing customer feedback and implementing appropriate improvement initiatives
• Assist the DOE with leading and managing the program overseen through interviewing, training, reviewing and developing quality faculty
• Foster faculty and staff development and professional growth
• Provide quality student services by ensuring proper and timely orientation, and advising and documenting students on academic issues
• May have some teaching responsibilities depending on the size of the program
• Participate in the informal resolution of conflicts between students and faculty
• Provide academic advising to students who request or need it
• Participate in evaluating the viability of new program/course requests and modifications of existing courses/programs as requested by the program faculty
• Mediate personality and philosophical conflicts within program area overseen
• Create and process required reports
• Conduct regular faculty meetings in order to ensure that faculty and staff are informed and up-to-date on College matters
• Initiate procedures for necessary repairs and maintenance of program equipment and facilities
• Attend Director of Education/Education meetings
• Assist with the maintenance of faculty credentials and required documentation
• Assist with the maintenance of faculty credentials and required documentation
• Other duties as assigned by Director of Education or Campus Director

• A minimum of a bachelor' see required.
• A minimum of three (3) years clinical experience as a Surgical Technologist
• Must be a CST with a current nationally recognized certification 
• Must have experience working with computer programs, including: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Preferred minimum of one (1) year of management and/or educational leadership experience
• Teaching experience preferred
• The Program Director must be able to communicate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization and with third parties regardless of their level, of education, sophistication, or socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds
• Effective interaction across departmental boundaries must be maintained

We Offer:

• Medical, Dental and Vision starting the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
• 2 Weeks’ starting Vacation per year.  Increasing based on years of service with company
• 12 paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holiday
• 401K with a Company Match
• Company Paid Life Insurance at 1x’s your annual salary
• Leadership development and training for career advancement
• Tuition assistance and Forgiveness for you and your family up to 100% depending on program