Residency Program Administrator

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds, 48 licensed critical care beds, 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites, and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition, we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center, the Lauren Small Children's Center including the area's only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Family Care Center, a Level II NICU, the Sarvanand Heart, and Brain Center with Kern County's first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite, the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics, and many more services. Memorial Hospital is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner, serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality, compassionate care since 1956. Click here to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.

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As a Residency Program Professional, you will provide essential management and oversight for graduate medical education (GME) programs, ensuring continued accreditation and operational excellence. You will serve as the administrative leader, partnering with program directors to maintain compliance and institutional standards.

Every day you will independently manage program operations, including scheduling, curriculum support, and adherence to accreditation requirements. You will actively engage in administrative, financial, and logistical planning to ensure seamless program function and trainee support.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of GME accreditation policies, strong organizational skills, and a high degree of initiative and independent judgment. Your ability to effectively manage diverse programmatic activities and communicate with all stakeholders will be paramount to fulfilling the organization's mission.

• Executes institutional and/or program activities with a high degree of independence (e.g. educational events, training, recruitment, orientation, graduation, site visits, etc.)
• Partners with program directors concerning program management challenges and activities. Identifies and evaluates methods for improvement and makes recommendations to program leadership.
• Partners with program leadership in development of program-level policies and provides copies of program-specific policies to the GME Office.
• Educates and manages distribution of institutional and program policies.
• Provides measurable impact on operational effectiveness and attainments of training program objectives.
• If applicable, oversees the work of support staff. Provides mentorship to other program Administrators.

Required

• Minimum of 3 years experience in program managing or business related field. 

Preferred

• Bachelors Other and Accreditation experience, including working with regulatory agencies., upon hire