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The Senior Education Specialist works independently and in collaboration with the Associate Director for Education and Training and members of Cedars-Sinai Cancer, as well as the Associate Director, Academic Research Manager, and Program Administrators in the cancer center's research administration office to make significant and creative contributions and to provide administrative and programmatic support to Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC), including federally funded T32s, initiatives, and activities. Responsible for planning, implementing and administering cancer research education and training activities to train.
Plays a significant role in the strategic planning, design, development and implementation of education and training program objectives, procedures, processes and standards. Acts as Cedars-Sinai Cancer's liaison with potential funding agencies to seek opportunities for educational initiatives and programs and as a liaison with other programs to maximize synergistic interactions and will continue to nurture collaborative ties with institutions in Southern California. May supervise staff as it relates to the overall management of education and training activities.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Serve as a senior advisor to the Associate Director for Education and Training for Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination Program.
Cedars-Sinai Cancer Responsible for managing existing programs and launching new programs. Cedars-Sinai Cancer Responsible for the implementation of the programs in line with the CRTEC strategic plan. Routinely monitor progress, identify issues, and provide recommendations for long-term strategic planning for departmental initiatives, inclusive of resources and feasibility analysis.
Cedars-Sinai Cancer Support and work with Cedars-Sinai Cancer CRTEC's leadership team to advance the group's mission.
Cedars-Sinai Cancer Develops and tracks relevant metrics for CRTEC courses, programs, and educational activities as well as validates and helps set short term and long-term goals and outcomes for these programs and activities.
Connecting Cedars-Sinai Cancer with surrounding academic institutions (local high schools, CSUs, UCs) for partnerships and collaborations. Cedars-Sinai Cancer Serves as key resource in support of program directors of Masters, certificate programs, and other CRTEC programs and initiatives. Cedars-Sinai Cancer Develop surveys and tracking productivity of programs and participants.
Cedars-Sinai Cancer Writes grants to fund program, or works with faculty, researchers and/or staff to develop proposals. Helps identify funding opportunities. Cedars-Sinai Cancer Plans and develops program objectives and content.
Researches and identifies trends and needs and establishes program directions accordingly. Assesses quality of program operations. Modifies existing program services or creates new program offerings to maintain or enhance program standing.
Develops curricula and course materials and coordinates faculty engagement and involvement in program courses. Links program with other relevant departments on or off campus as necessary. #Jobs-Indeed
Education:
Masters Degree required
Experience:
Ten (10) years minimum of experience in directly related field
Working Title: Senior Education Specialist, Cancer Institute
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major t...eaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competitive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
