Imagine doing the best work of your career in a place where your efforts advance lives and empower communities. Where a shared passion for education and student achievement guides every decision. And where the lives you change today literally become tomorrow's life-savers. That's what awaits when you join the American Career College (ACC) team. Get ready to transform futures, including your own.  

How you can impact:

As the Program Director you will:

• Provide leadership in managing, planning, and implementing the Physical Therapy Assistant program in support of American Career College goals in order to assure compliance with programmatic accreditation and/or licensure, internal consistency, and graduate outcomes to meet placement expectations.  
• Participate in curriculum development and coordination, while determining teaching assignments using a blended instructional approach combining face-to-face instruction with on-line instruction (as applicable), selection of faculty, and selection/coordination of program specific external facilities and instruction.
• Provide professional leadership and support for teaching faculty; serving as a mentor and facilitator for faculty assigned; and enables an environment which fosters creativity, responsiveness, and self-responsibility.

Who You Are: 

The ideal candidate has a minimum of five (5) years (or equivalent), full-time, post licensure experience that includes a minimum of three (3) years (or equivalent) of full-time clinical experience, and possesses the following qualifications:

• Didactic and/or clinical teaching experience.
• Experience in administration/management. 
• Experience in educational theory and methodology, instructional design, student evaluation and outcome assessment, including the equivalent of nine credits of coursework in educational foundations.
• Must possess contemporary expertise (expertise beyond that obtained in an entry-level physical therapy program that represents knowledge and skills reflective of current practice) in assigned teaching areas and demonstrate effectiveness in teaching and student evaluation.

Education:

• Hold a minimum of a master’s degree with the appropriate coursework in the subject area required from an institution that is accredited by a regional accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE).

Licenses/Certifications:

• Current Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) license or Physical Therapy (PT) license to practice in California.
• Current CPR Card.

Salary: Minimum $103,000 - Maximum $150,000