Program Coordinator

Position Information

**Position Title**
- Program Coordinator

**Department/Unit**
- Faculty of Medicine - General

**Location**
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

**Posting Number**
- S146-25

**Employee Group**
- NSGEU Local 77

**Position Type**
- Regular, On-Going

**Duration of Contract (if applicable)**

**Employment Type**
- Full Time

**Full-time Equivalency (FTE)**
- 1.0 FTE

**Salary**
- $27.37 - $34.66 per hour ($46,261 - $58,567 per annum, 32.5 hours per week)

**Classification**
- C6

**Provisional Statement**
- This is a provisional classification. Formal regular review classification procedures may be initiated at any time by the incumbent or supervisor after the incumbent has worked a minimum of six months in the role._

**About Dalhousie University**
- Dalhousie University is Atlantic Canada’s leading research-intensive university and a driver of the region’s intellectual, social and economic development. Located in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia, with an Agricultural Campus in Truro/Bible Hill, Dalhousie is a truly national and international university, with more than half of our almost 21,000 students coming from outside of the province. Our 6,000 faculty and staff foster a vibrant, purpose-driven community, that celebrated 200 years of academic excellence in 2018.

**Job Summary**
- The Faculty of Medicine inspires and enables excellence in health care through its medical education and research programs, and by serving and engaging society. Reporting to the Program Director, the Program Coordinator will be an integral member of Masters of Physician Assistant Studies (MPAS) program in the delivery of the PA program, where they are responsible for administering and coordinating the Year 1 curriculum, evaluation, and student assessment.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Collaborate with senior MPAS faculty and staff to coordinate the development of the Year 1 units including Skilled Clinician and distribute program assessment tools using online tools.
- Develop schedule and ensure compliance of it to template. Ensure integration of units and resolve conflicts in Year 1 schedules. Maintain changes and edits electronically.
- Create individual schedules for students on a flex schedule as well as facilitate and arrange schedules of individual students that take leaves of absence and those requiring remediation.
- Develop draft and revise examinations in consultation with Unit Heads including deferral and supplemental examinations using exam database.
- Advise the Executive Faculty/Director on areas concerning the management of the evaluation information and/or improvements to the evaluation system.
- Assists in the implementation of new processes and procedures, and keeping up with electronic trends, such as scheduling and the use of electronic resources in medical education.

**Note**
- The successful applicant will be eligible for hybrid work (combination of in-person work on campus and remote work from within Nova Scotia) as agreed by all parties based on operational requirements and university guidelines.

**Required Qualifications**
- Business/Administrative Professional diploma plus approximately five years’ progressively responsible and related experience (or equivalent combination of training and experience).
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills and the proven ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Demonstrated organizational and multi-tasking skills, and the proven ability to work both independently and in a team environment.

**Assets**
- Experience in a university or health professional education environment.
- Knowledge of medical education programs and/or academic health care environments.
- Knowledge of One45, Brightspace and/or Sharepoint.

**Job Competencies**
- Self-Awareness & Professionalism
- Respect & Inclusion
- Adaptability
- Knowledge & Thinking Skills
- Service

**Additional Information**
- Dalhousie University supports a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Our total compensation package includes a defined benefit pension plan, health and dental plans, a health spending account, an employee and family assistance program and a tuition assistance program._

**Application Consideration**

**Diversity Statement**

Posting Detail Information

**Number of Vacancies**
- One (1)

**Open Date**
- 07/25/2025

**Close Date**
- 08/01/2025

**Open Until Filled**
- No

**Special Instructions to Applicant**

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