**Description** **THE ROLE** The Executive Director of Clinical Education is responsible for division-wide oversight of clinical education, inclusive of nursing personnel and ancillary staff. Responsibilities include but are not limited to coordination of education, orientation, academic affiliations, residency and fellowship programs, simulation, nursing research, and support of Magnet accreditation. Collaborates with nursing and other clinical leaders at all facilities and as well as with system leaders to assess learning needs and establish priorities for education programs aimed at achieving specific measurable outcomes to achieve the quadruple aim. Identifies strategic education opportunities that address learning needs to improve individual and organizational performance. Evaluates nursing education programs for both return on investment and congruence with basic education and adult learning principles. Works closely with other education leaders to ensure system-wide consistency of all education activities and alignment with strategic and business goals for the division. Establishes and maintains appropriate metrics against benchmarks to effectively evaluate program effectiveness. The Executive Director is responsible for leading the regional work with clinical education leaders and system operational leaders to initiate strategies to design, direct, or source education programs to prepare and develop caregivers and providers for high quality, cost-effective, safe and caring assignments and practice that meet all regulatory requirements and changing business needs. **ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS** + Lead and manage the divisional leadership and operation of clinical education, professional development and clinical practice standards, including all functions related to the educational process and outcomes, strategic planning and measurement, financial and human resource management. + Lead the divisional assessment of the clinical education and professional development needs across the division. Collaborate with others to determine priorities for clinical education programs. Ensure maximum coordination and collaboration across the region and with the Providence system to minimize redundancy and cost of educational planning. + Consult with nursing leaders and develop education methods and models that address complex and challenging learning needs across the division. Evaluate all clinical education programs for effectiveness of learning, customer satisfaction and cost-effectiveness. + Recruit, retain, and develop high performing education leaders. Ensure that leaders provide mentoring and coaching to education staff in adult education principles, competency-based learning strategies, and individual roles contributing to effective self-managed work teams. + Accountable for nurse-led research programs across the division. Represent division at local research conferences and at system level for nursing research. + Lead and assess the Divisional Leaders to create and develop standardization of clinical orientation programs, ensuring that all nursing and ancillary staff are oriented to their role, scope of practice and to the Clinical Standards required to perform assigned job responsibilities. + Accountable for divisional educational programs that support nursing staff that function periodically in education roles, including preceptor workshops and train-the-trainer sessions for competency validation and maintenance. + Collaborate with human resources, divisional leaders, clinical leaders and department managers to identify and address the initial and ongoing competency requirements necessary to meet regulatory standards. + Develop and maintain the process to ensure that the division is an accredited provider of continuing education credits (CEARP) through the ANCC. + Consults with divisional Quality leadership to ensure that education outcomes enhance quality results and to apply CMS and Joint Commission guidelines as appropriate. + Oversees divisional Residency and Fellowship program and evaluates the leadership of Simulation Programs across the division in partnership with core leaders and program managers and ensures program meets requirements for accreditation. + Build and maintain effective relationships with educational institutions of higher learning in the division. Overall responsibility for academic contracts and agreements. Lead and validate that all nursing education affiliations are coordinated across the division and that nursing students receive appropriate orientation and supervision. + Consult and participate as a member and/or lead committees, project work groups, and task forces that have implications for divisional nursing education or the competency needs of nurses and associated clinical staff. + Partnering with operations, IT, clinical engineering and others to facilitate the process of change management as applied to the implementation of technology and workflow process changes. **QUALIFICATIONS** + Master's Degree in Nursing, Health Administration, or similar fields (required). + Ph.D. - Doctorate in Nursing Practice, PhD, or other advanced degree in Education (preferred). + Upon hire: Alaska Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed); or California Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed); Or Montana Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed); or New Mexico Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed); or Oregon Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed); or Texas Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed); or Washington Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed). + Certification in Nursing Professional Development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. + 7 years of experience in clinical education. + 3 years of experience in a large complex healthcare organization. + 3 years of experience in leadership over the design, implementation, evaluation, and improvement of behavior/competency-based, clinical education systems and structures. + Possesses an in-depth understanding of the educational process and its application to nursing education programs in a large scale, multi-faceted organization. + Has demonstrated skill in interpersonal communication across all organizational levels. + Has demonstrated capability to function in the roles of regional leader, department manager, consultant, coach, facilitator, team member, and program faculty member. + Possesses an in- depth knowledge of healthcare regulatory and accreditation standards. + Using best practices for assessing learning needs, designing interventions, designing efficient training schedules, administering instructional activities, and evaluating proficiency. These best practices will include the most effective and efficient methodologies that respect the end-users time and learning style. + Serving as a subject matter expert for developing regional standardization, trends and best practices in instructional design, learner support, and educational methods both inside and outside healthcare. + Evidence of leadership, critical problem-solving skills, education, prioritization, decision-making, excellent interpersonal skills. + Strong delivery and presentation skills. + Developing and maintaining relationships with operations leaders so that all educational activities are planned jointly, are fully aligned with business needs, and are as cost-effective for operations as possible. This includes setting competency goals and aggressively seeking, evaluating, and implementing alternatives to traditional training activities. + Knowledge of overall hospital clinical and non-clinical systems and processes as well as information systems, business analytics, financial concepts, organizational development, training and education. **About Providence** At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable. The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities. Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits. **Requsition ID:** 342444 **Company:** Providence Jobs **Job Category:** Clinical Education **Job Function:** Clinical Support **Job Schedule:** Full time **Job Shift:** Day **Career Track:** Leadership **Department:** 4007 SS NORTH DIV NURSING ADMIN **Address:** WA Seattle 550 17th Ave **Work Location:** Swedish Cherry Hill 550 17th-Seattle **Workplace Type:** Hybrid **Pay Range:** $93.47 - $168.89 The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.